of the Government which Mr. 'Lloyd deorge desired was fully contained in his speech in the House of Lords. Lord Oxford sums up by saying that Mr. Lloyd George's refusal to...

3rd, the Liberal " Shadow " Cabinet discussed the proper attitude of „tile Liberal Party towards the general strike, and that. tff those present were critical of some of the...

Lloyd George, then Prime Minister, resented the attempt of distinguished Churchmen to intervene in . the coal dispute. He said that their " interference " was " replete with...

T HE Liberal Party has been thrown into intense agitation and the rest of the country into intense curiosity by a correspondence between Lord Oxford and Mr. Lloyd George. We...

that throughout he had been faithful to Liberal principles, and that all he had said during the strike had been implicit in his Cambridge speech, which had been praised by his...

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those who oppose General Hertzog—is that the Union Jack ought to be combined with the flag of the old Dutch .Republics. The answer of General Hertzog's Govern- ment to that...

on the extraordinary success of their whirlwind campaign in Morocco. Within three weeks they have mastered the greater part of the Riff country and Abd-el-Krim has surrendered...

an overwhelming majority for the Zaghlulists. A very few returns from outlying constituencies have yet to come in, but when we go to press the figures are : Zaghlulists, 154 ;...

. of the Bill on the ground that the exclusion of the Union Jack would raise far-reaching national issues going far beyond the politics of the day. The proposed flag, he said,...

those which have been suddenly invented but those which by experiment and accretion express the history of the nation itself. The Union Jack, of course, describes, so to speak,...

from events abroad - which in normal times would have provoked profound interest and speculation. The insane suppression of the Press during the great strike starved us for...

design of a new flag for South Africa. The accepted flag hitherto has been the Union Jack bearing the badge of South Africa. Such a flag is, of course, quite in accordance with...

Dutch-speaking citizens that they signed appeals to the Government to withdraw the Bill. At last General Hertzog bowed to the storm and announced that the Bill would be post-...

still without a definite policy. He did not plan the revolution ; he was the beneficiary of circumstances. He suddenly found himself at the head of a large number of troops who...

hundred years was in the possession of the Rothschild family, was opened as a public park. It is a very notable addition to the public open spaces round London. It is two...

into a more strongly anti-Monarchical movement than they really desire. On the other hand the Liberals may be able to save the situation to an extent which is not indicated by...

a fair chance of helping a convulsed country back to Constitutional quiet. A meeting of the National Assembly—the Diet and the Senate sitting together— has been fixed for...

not be subject to any official instructions or intimidation. They were not to be in any sense " made," as the French say, and there is reason to believe that this condition was...

Labour Law, a consistent 'step in the abolition of what Signor Mussolini calls the " agnostic and incapable Democratic-Liberal State." Its aim seems to be to make Italy one...

coal dispute. We have written on the subject in our first leading article. The rebuking letters which the Prime Minister sent to the Mining Association and to the miners, and...

complicity in several political murders has had an astonishing result. On Tuesday the Court, though sentencing Mohamed Fahmy Effendi Aly to death, acquitted all the other...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100} ; on Wednesday week 100 k xd ; a year ago 99 ft. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871 ; on...

THE COAL STOPPAGE T HEREis a phrase embedded by long use in the English language which expresses the normal Englishman's despair when he recognizes that some trouble flows from...

A T Scarborough last year the Trades Union Congress took the powers that enabled its Council to call the general strike. Whether the Congress considered the legality of those_...

II.—POVERTY BOTTOM "p OVERTY BOTTOM ': in the Southdowns was unearthed by Professor Somerville when he was seeking to demonstrate the possibility of extracting wealth from...

first-hand knowledge of the subject hero dealt with, we think it well to publish this article as a contribution to the general problem , of finding new uses for coal. It may be...

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on the walls of the Paris kiosks, few are more interesting to the student of French life and manners than the satirical journals. These are weeklies ; they are non-party, and no...

M ONOTONY in the air, the slope, the trees ! High on the highest fir sang a mocking bird, its note dulled by_ the air. I looked around at the grey slabs of. stone. The...

" Egyptian fakir," Dr. Tahra Bey, gave rather a ghastly show of his powers to some doctors and jour- nalists recently. But I think the attitude of a part of the audience was...

large gathering he said he would be delighted to represent the interests of Canada to the best of his ability so long as Canada was satisfied to leave its interests in the hands...

task of real Empire-building and it is impossible to over- estimate its value. The annual report of the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf for the supply of British teachers to...

reported by the Times correspondent, has protested strongly against the South African Government's attitude towards the Lobito Bay Railway scheme for which a loan has been...

foreign birds here. Nearly twenty years ago Lord Northcliffe brought over to England a number of American robins and released them in the Surrey countryside. He was deeply...

THE practice of letting country houses to American visitors is growing, and with judicious management it is, I believe, capable of considerable expansion. Those of my-American...

more important task t'ian making Canada and Great Britain better known to one another. For this reason, Lord Beaverbrook deserves the congratulations of all who care for...

Government had announced its intention of building its national capital at Canberra and it was hoped that the new city would have been ready in a few years. Now at long last...

COVENT GARDEN OPERA SUPERB AND DEPLORABLE SINGING THE Covent Garden opera season comes with the spring to revive enthusiasm for living things after winter's discontent: For...

MR. O'CASEY AGAIN SIR HORACE PLUNKETT once said on a memorable occasion that Irish 'history was for Englishmen to remember and for Irishmen to forget. If Mr. O'Casey, who has...

A LETTER FROM BUENOS AIRES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia—Without a doubt the Capital of the Argentine Republic is daily attracting more world-wide interest. A decade...

Tun Intime Trio, consisting of Miss Suzanne de Livet-Bon- valot, Mr. Cecil Bonvalot and Mr. Cedric Sharpe, gave a concert at the Wigmore Hall on May 20th. I know not /whether...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Your correspondent, Mr. J. W. Meares, seems to have in- completely understood the implications of Mr. Justice Astbury's decision. Even...

THE NEED OF UNDERSTANDING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The endeavour to give practical effect to the fervent appeal of the King and the Prime Minister for good will...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Spectator is the only Unionist paper I have read on the subject of the strike which seems to me to have drawn perfectly fair...

STATE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I was much interested in reading the letter from Mr. Stanley A. Greenland, of Port Moresby, Papua, appearing in your issue of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After reading Mr. A. M. Sayers' letter on tramways in your issue of May 1st, I should like to point out that tramways possess important...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—No one acquainted with a steamship's engine-room telegraph will question the literal accuracy of Mr. Francis Cadogan's reading of the...

Sin,—A great calamity has overtaken Barbados, and indeed the Empire, in the total destruction by fire on the night of Sunday, April 18th, of the historic buildings of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR ,—In your " Spectabilia " of February 27th last the follow- ing definite statement appears : " The only Country in the British Empire...

[To the Editor of the SsEcT.vroit.] St n issue of March 20th, which opens my subscription to your excellent journal, contains an item which moves me with hesitation to venture...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Such hostility as exists against the Industrial Christian Fellowship is not, I think, attributable to anything that the Rev. G. A....

go to New Zealand to seek a fishing Eden when You have only to cross the Minch to find one ? In a fort- night's angling in the Hebrides last season, two rods caught 113 salmon,...

20th has just arrived, containing a letter " On Hating America." You suggest that it may be worth while to enter on a " frank " discussion of hatred of both countries—America...

against Mr. Holzman's letter ? One can easily overlook his charge that the main- spring of the " American and British Empires " is self-interest —even smile at the "American...

answer to Miss Mary Dendy I would point out that sterilization is meant to be an " irretrievable proceeding " undertaken after the case has been fully investigated by a...

Sin,--Mr. G. Herbert Stanccr is the mouthpiece of a small clique who profess to believe that the danger to cyclists on roads will 'be increased by their being compelled to make...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] should be grateful if you would allow me to thank an anonymous friend who regularly sends me, through the post, a copy of the Spectator. This...

THE Two WoacEs'rEas Mr. C. H. D. Crimes, late chairman of the Church Immigration Welfare Society for W. Australia, writes : " I read . with great pleasure the letter on the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Writing on Empire Day one naturally has the highest interests of our national life and religion in mind. May I, therefore, be allowed to...

Sing merry, sing merry, now fly not away ! I'd find me a garden of green flowering bushes, Where all the young maidens might nest them in May. With lilac and cherry, And...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As no one better authorized than myself has written in reply to Mr. Grieve's letter on this subject, an extract from. which appeared in...

New York Times.] Abraham Lincoln. The Prairie Years. By Carl Sandburg. (Jonathan Cape. 2 vols. £2 2a. net.) MR. LimoLses personality has always presented a problem, to the...

The Editor offered a prize of £5 for "A Specimen Day." WE received a very great number of entries for this competition, and we feel proud that so many of our readers wrote for...

Friends of Field and Forest by Miss E. E. Helmc (7s. Cid.), with sixteen very attractive illustrations in colour by Miss Barbara Briggs. The Water Mole (" a nice clean little...

edition of World Chancelleries, being articles by Mr. Edward Price Bell on the statesmen of Europe. As this book is not available to the general public, we can only quote the...

betterr - exemplified in modern times than by the work of Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. In The .Nervous. Mechanism of Plants (Lotigmans, 16s.) the author-gives us the results of a...

Series published by Messrs. Watts at Is. each. Mr. Julian Huxley, in The Stream of Life, tells his hearers (these essays were first prepared for -broadcasting) of the...

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Ma. Pinup GinErtatta modestly calls his studies of the men who made the United States a sketchbook. He says " five generations ago the United States leapt from the trap-door of...

WILLIAM ROSE was factor and confidential friend to Lord Fife, and their correspondence, which lasted from 1763 till about 1800, together with accounts, bills, &c., all...

By A. J. Toynbee. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) WE are all under a great obligation to the :British titute of International Affairs, the Oxford University Press, and to Sir...

Architecture Explained. By Howard - Robertson, F.R.I.B.A., S.A.D.G. (Ernest Berm. 7s. 6d.) WHEN people uninstructed in architecture ask for a primer of the art there can be no...

Memoirs of William Hickey. Edited by Alfred Spencer. (Hurst and Blackett. 21s.) THE fourth volunie of William Hickey's Memoirs is—we say it boldly—the best. It is not less...

WE serene and happy people who believe The Prelude to be of the fullest importance to English literature welcome Professor de Selineourt's book. It is a work that needs no...

The Sunlit Hours ; a Record - of :Slcirt and Life. By Theodore Andrea Cook, Editor of the Field; • (Nisbet. 18s.) THE great difficulty in any biography is deciding what to...

introduction by W. H. Draper. (Simpkirul 3s. tkl.) Tins neat little book offers in a more available form than the. luxurious edition or Mr. Geoffrey Keynes an insight into the...

true as from internal evidence it seems to be, I3ioken Earth is a volume of no little interest and importance. The writer is a Russian born and bred in an isolated village, who,...

THE LIMITATIONS- OF -VICTORY. By A. Fabre -Luce, translated by C. Vesey. (London Allen and Umvin. 12s. (3d. net.) ' • TrT competent translator and the publishers. of Count...

and Co. 15s. net.) TnosE who remember Mr. Parmelee's work in London in 1917 and 1918 as One of the United States delegation, and chairman of the Rationing, and Statistical...

and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.).—England after a Red revolution is the subject of this novel, in which the Comrpunist Government is represented as almost purely evil. The sfbry...

A MIXED BAG Ix Green Sandals Mr. Lowis has adopted the Wilkie Collins plan of telling the story of a mystery from the points of view of the different characters concerned in...

The Black Scorpion. By Alastair Shannon. (Bles. 7s. 6d.) —Grey mist at the India Dock—an Indian shadowing Jack Calthorpe, late of the Madras Criminal Investigation Depart-...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. By Anita Love. (Brentano's, Ltd). ALL New York in the late autumn began to drink this literary cocktail. Twenty thousand copies a month of it are...

IT is very seldom that, with regard to the financial and commercial: outlook, the signal of " All Clear " can be given. Indeed,-_-it might almost be said that such a signal...

the coal stoppage continues, the optimisni remains. Hopefulness of an early termination of the general strike has certainly been proved to be justified and sooner or later'saner...

The accounts for last year show that the gross new business in the Life Department was £1,418,000 against £1,274,000 and the net business was £1,160,000 against £1,153,000....

After a prolonged pause in capital flotations it is customary to find that the resumption of issues is led by those of a sound and attractive character. Among trustee issues...

t• It is some time now since the finances of the Criterion Restaurants began to show improvement, and last year the results - Were distinctly encouraging. There was a- trading...

The balance sheet of Harabros Bank, - made up to the 81st March last, shows an expansion in deposits from £15,808,000 to £16,147,000. There was a trifling decline in profits,...

With one or two important exceptions the market is not now looking for further issues under what is known -as the Trades Facilities Act, under which, it will be remembered, the...