T UESDAY'S debate on foreign affairs ranged over a very wide field. It gave Mr. Chamberlain an opportunity to explain the nature of Lord Runciman's mission to Prague, which is...

one of intense military activity in Spain, and important operations have been carried out on the Levante front, on the Ebro river, and on the southern front, in-Estremadura. On...

again been concentrated on the Japanese advance up the river Yangtze to Hankow. After a desperate resistance, in which the Chinese made a " holy sacrifice " of their men,...

in the Anglo-American track discussions, which has been reported recently, amount, to anything more than the temporary inability of the nego- tiators to resolve certain...

last week in raising the question of this country's debt to the United States in the debate on the Finance Bill in the. House of Lords. Even should his speech have no immediate...

Arab market-place at Haifa, killing 45 Arabs and wounding 45 others. It started inter-racial fighting in which Jews were the principal sufferers. The incident unfortunately is...

who in the effort to restore order in Austria had sternly repressed both the Socialist rebels and the Nazi agitators, was murdered by a gang of Nazis. For this crime, committed...

to be said for the proposal put before the Government by mine-owners and mine-workers to impose a compulsory levy on all coal marketed, from the proceeds of which coal exports...

" theories for dictatorships is well illustrated by the official anti-semitic campaign which has opened in Italy. Even less than Germany has Italy any excuse for anti-semitism....

votes was originated by the Conservative Opposition before the War. For several years now Opposition parties have refrained from demanding a division on every single vote and...

sentence he remarked that " throughout the Continent there is a relaxation of that sense of tension which six months ago was present." Had he entirely forgotten the speech...

called for the Foreign Office vote. They felt that most of the debates on foreign affairs during the session had been confined to single issues and that a general review of...

the Prime Minister's _ speech at Kettering, when he pointed out—what is obviously true—that it is out of the question for this country to attain self-sufficiency in food...

roads of this country has rightly been impressed on the public conscience with some insistence ; but far less has been heard of the annual toll. of life taken by the coal mines,...

raising the question of patent medicines in the House of Lords this week. Legis- lation on this subject has long been called for, but the Government seems to adopt the curious...

Tuesday the following paragraph appeared in a London evening newspaper : " At least five important measures dealing with agriculture, electricity supply and prison reform await...

A T this critical moment in the affairs of Czecho- slovakia Mr. Chamberlain has done well to offer the services of an Englishman in the attempt to bridge the gulf which, if...

T HE Evian Conference convened by President Roose- velt has recently shown how much the problem of the refugees has impressed itself on the conscience of the civilised world....

L AST Saturday M. Pierre Cot, Lord Cecil, and other representatives of sane opinion throughout the world met to consider how the bombardment of open towns might be prevented and...

By NIGEL TANGYE F OR that oddity, an Under Secretary of State for Air who has spent a lifetime in aviation and who can really fly, may the Lord make us truly thankful. One of...

By MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK [This is the fifth and last of a series of articles by the wife of the Chinese Commander - in - Chief in China today] T AM moved to wonder if there is...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Paris. I T is not surprising that the situation in France at the present moment should be curiously similar to the situation in Great Britain. There...

By E. M. FORSTER " TT should be our faith that everything in this world .1. can be expressed in words," wrote Wilde. The gods heard his prayer, and ironically decreed that...

By WALDO FRANK T HE refugios of Barcelona, the once gay city of the Catalans, are shelters of transit, to which hundreds of thousands of the dispossessed from all the parts of...

By JAN STRUTHER T HE highway is a microcosm, and a long journey by road is the epitome of a lifetime. This was true even in the days of horse-drawn vehicles, but today the...

By BRYAN GUINNESS T ES ; that's all very well," said Mr. Frogmarsh, " I know I'm lucky to live here at Puddleboume ; it is a lovely place : the woods are justly celebrated ;...

Strauss's New Opera THERE was a time when the production of a new opera by Richard Strauss was an event of world-wide interest. It was partly aroused by the sensationalism, that...

WAS this the face that launched a thousand sheiks—these bulging eyes, these lips pendulous and trembling with lust, these nostrils puffing like a stallion's ? 0 tempora, 0 mores...

AT the Victoria and Albert Museum there are on exhibition examples from Goya's four series of etchings The Fantasies, The Horrors of War,' The Proverbs, and La Tauromaquia,...

de Is cuisine francaise. Aujourd'hui un tour a la cave s'impose, puisque bonne chore exige bon yin. Aux banquets d'apparat dunes pour le roi Georges un cru different...

Weeds and Prairies The other day I met an inspector under the County Council, busy at the work of looking for noxious weeds on farm and other land. He found glaring examples of...

SIR, —Although I deprecate the undue publicity this subject has received, there are points arising from - the recent case of it that are worthy of consideration. The public,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Tie most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week...

35. Is this for classes in all academic subjects or for a few lecture-lessons only ? (b) If it is for all academic subjects, does he consider it satisfactory for finding...

in The Spectator on July t5th, Major-General J. F. C. Fuller seems to suggest that international law does not govern the conduct of nations during war ; yet, in point of fact, a...

authority and not as the scribes on the subjects on which he does write, and writes so prophetically well. He has the same respect for the Oxford Dictionary as I had in my youth...

Snt,—There is a great deal to be said for the views of Mr. J. T. Dunn and Mr. H. H. Charnock that international understanding is going to suffer if we are eternally adopting a...

demands I should acknowledge Miss Rathbone's elucidation of her charges against the Prime Minister which she now modifies by suggesting his delinquencies are unintentional....

Sta,—In The Spectator of July 22nd your Parliamentary cor- respondent very briefly outlined the recent debate in the House of Commons on the activities of the Unemployment...

-I illustrate my recent letter by an example from The Thnes Literary Supplement, July 23rd, page 489 ? Herr the reviewer, having mentioned certain oddities in his author's...

Snt,—Your reviewer, Professor Bonamy Dobree, closes his Absalom Scott review with these words : " One would wish that Miss D'Oyley would now settle down to write a life of...

Tim word on the hill The music in the water— The music reflects The word on the guitar. When the guns spoke The fat poet fled Till he came to Lerida, Name peaceful as the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,—I hope Mr. A. L. Rowse will continue the discussion of the large and complex issue raised by Sir Maurice Amos, since the matter has been...

notify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The name, the previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—Monsieur Bayet's letter from Paris is timely. When are we going to face the truth in this country There is a tenseness beneath the surface...

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