Lord Cranbo referen• on Tuesday to accumulating evidence that the German Staff, envisaging defeat, are already making preparations for t e next war, is a timely reminder of the...

T HE epic of Arnhem has already a permanent and a splendid place in the annals of British warfare. The men who fought and died there were not attempting the impossible. If it...

The American election campaign is warming up. President Roosevelt fired his first shot on Saturday with a speech which im- mediately drew vigorous counter-fire from Governor...

demobilisation plan has evoked is fully justified. To be fair to every individual involved in so vast an operation is beyond hope ; the existence of a certain number of hard...

The Government's proposals for the treatment of industrial injuries will command as wide approval as the Social Insurance Scheme as a whole (of which the new proposals are an...

In the tangled and dangerously obscure business of Allied support for the patriots of Warsaw, certain facts have at last emerged on official authority. The controversy about...

The first series of talks at Dumbarton Oaks, where representatives of the " Big Three " are in search of a common policy concerning the shape and powers of the future security...

The hope of French unity and resilience lies in the remarkable share which France has taken in freeing herself. The élan and exhilaration which surge through French life were...

T HE Government's Social Insurance scheme, like all great I projects of the kind, consists of principle and detaiL Neither is immutable, but changes of principle are clearly a...

the teachers of Verdun "cheated the Germans." One of the teachers told the story. On orders from Vichy, he said, all the old text-books were scrapped, and new ones, which must...

T HE outcry about the alleged omission of Hitler from the list of war-criminals is very much beside the mark ; there would be much more reason for outcry if he were included....

relaxation in the treatment of Italy agreed on by Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt, Signor Benedetto Croce's demand that Italy should now be treated as an Allied Power, and...

Stephen King- Hall, is broadening out into an organisation for publicising Parlia- ment. That is all to the good, for a mere attempt to increase the circulation of Hansard could...

Indian Army on Tuesday against the strictures of an irresponsible Ameri- can journalist (one of the charges was that it was a mercenary force —volunteers being apparently of a...

more—to the centenary of the death of John Sterling, which fell on September 18th. Sterling's writings are virtually unknown today, but he made a deep impression on the...

Ingenious novelties are always attractive, and an educational news-sheet which has just been sent me is both ingenious and novel. It is dated 1815, and consists of what purport...

By STRATEGICUS T HE fog of war has now been reinforced by a smoke screen. For security reasons there is at present an embargo on news from the only sector of the front that...

By JOHN MOSCOW W ITH the defeat of Germany, the immediate danger that pro- duced the Anglo-Soviet Treaty will disappear. What are the prospects for the alliance in the years...

By CAPTAIN GERALD HANLEY n ESPITE continuous and savage attacks, the Japanese were if unable to take Kohima and Imphal. They got half of Kohima, but could get no further. The...

By SIR ERNEST BARKER HIS week the Minister of Education is officially opening the T Inter-Allied Book Centre, which is collecting books for the Allies. This is a seal and...

By GORDON MALET S ILENCE is often -the most effective answer to a vociferous and misguided minority. When, however, this minority is succeeding in persuading a substantial...

By HAROLD NICOLSON O Nopening The Times newspaper last Saturday, my eye fell upon a letter from a retired Squadron-Leader, in which he deplored the " incalculable harm " being...

It is inevitable after five years of atrocious war that our judge- ment should be clouded by . the emotions of fear and hatred. It is thus salutary to reflect that such emotions...

matters are connected with the fundamental conflict between peace and war. The Germans, who believe in power as the determining factor in human affairs, suffer from no such...

suffice in itself. We must educate the Germans by our example. The Ger- man people have never had the chance of learning that strength, if wholly self-confident, can be a gentle...

in M. Clemen- ceau's study in Paris at the beginning of 1919. Against the advice of several members of the British Cabinet—and notably of Mr. Winston Churchill—the blockade of...

" The Hairy Ape." At the New Gallery.--" Voice in the Wind." At the London Pavilion. " Sweet and Low Down." At the Tivoli. ON more than one recent occasion American film...

Chamber Music at Wigmore Hall IT was intended that this article should celebrate the return to England after his long sojourn abroad of Sir Thomas Beecham. The hero having...

Fanny's First Play." At the Arts Theatre. Tins revival of Mr. Shaw's comedy, first produced in 1911, gives the core of the play without its epilogue, which, incidentally, is...

SIR,—Is not some of the difference of opinion on this subject due to a failure to realise that the task of turning the Germans into decent citizens is one which must take at...

Sul,—Mr. McDougall's letter in your issue of September 22nd demon- strates some of the difficulties which will confront our Statesmen in the near future. He writes as a member...

observe that you suggest that the acting Finnish Prime Minister's broadcast to his people drew a gloomy picture of the situation, which his hearers who are better informed, will...

THE SAGE OF AYOT ST. LAWRENCE SIR,—My friendly reviewer Colonel Elliot is mistaken in supposing that I have said or written that " municipalities, because of their virtuous...

sui,—Air. Graham Watson's letter seems to imply that honest hatred • is the best way of avoiding World War III. Hatred is an emotion which blinds as easily as love, with, as a...

from an English staff officer on the Italian front :—" The toll of German atrocities is mounting. Recently we came on a house where II Italian women and five children had been...

SIR,—" Ex-Dominie's " letter in your issue of September t5th is mis- leading to those who are not in touch with Preparatory-Public School education. I have no right to speak for...

SIR,—A difficulty felt by some in maintaining their support of the Coalition Government is that it has the effect of perpetuating the repre- sentation of the various parties on...

Sut,—The article in your issue of September 22nd by David Thomson is scarcely fair to the document issued by the National Peace Council and signed by many prominent people. His...

last week's letter to you that in Southern Rhodesia he and his father, like other friends of the African native, have been " determined to benefit the 'downtrodden' savage." But...

Tourism with much interest may I point out one serious drawback our hotel keepers suffer from. In 1931 on a short motor trip in N.E. France every hotel, even in the small towns,...

taffic to this country until the standard of cookery has been raised from its present deplorably low leveL Only in those hotels and restaurants where foreign chefs are employed...

more thoroughly gone into. " Janus " touched on it. I stayed at a Trust House and met it for the first time. The more extras one orders, wine, tea if not included, &c., the...

It is a sign of the times (or the interpretation of the times?) that the seedsmen and nurserymen have been substituting flower advertisements for vegetable ; and the public has...

WE can now look back at the harvest and sum it up. It produced one botanical marvel. Here and there in the wetter belt the uncut ears sprouted green on the top of the straws,...

Sta,—Twice on p. 8 of your July 7th issue you use the word " practice " as a verb. Is this a slip for " practise," or has it now become good Prof. of Physics. [The word...

other day of a yield of two- hundred fold. This, of course, is very much above the average, especially since modem drilling of wheat rather discourages free tillering. The...

issue of September 15, 1944, under " A Spectator's Notebook " apropos of hotel tipping, in my opinion " Janus " has omitted to complete the picture. I am a traveller who has to...

Wasps are still attacking apples and plums, and proving a nuisance at the breakfast table. They have been so numerous, and greedy, that they have robbed many hives of the better...

The National Trust is about to celebrate a notable anniversary, and its possessions have never multiplied more rapidly. The nation (which as such has unfortunately no...

Civilisation's Disease The Next Development in Man. By L. L. Whyte. (Cresset Press. 15s.) THIS is an interesting book, less novel in its thesis than Mr. Whyte suggests, but...

Norfolk Portraits. By R. W. Ketton-Cremer. (Faber and Faber. 15s.) IN form, intention and execution this book is altogether successful— unforced in style, replete with knowledge...

The Evolution of Modern Italy : 1715 - 1920. By A. J. Whyte. (Blackwell. 18s.) AFTER the journalists on the future of Italy, a scholar on her past. Dr. Whyte hai made the...

by young Czechoslovaks now in Government service, are part of the ammuni'ion with which the Czechoslovak Delegation will attend the coming Peace Conference. Dr. Kunosi, a young...

Freedom from Want. By Paul Einzig. (Nicholson and Watson. 9s-) IN this little book Dr. Einzig puts forward the case for thorough going economic planning after the war. He tries...

The Power House. By Alex Comfort. (Routledge. 10s. 6d.) THERE are no " entertainment " novels on offer from this column this week. There are such around, of course, as always....

B ok Token for one gumea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct of tins week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, loth. Envelopes should be received...

Crossword No. 288 is Miss BEVAN, St. Francis' House, mingford Grey, Huntingdon.

Edinburgh. Is. 6d.) IN Scotland, as in England, many of the women and children evacuated from the- towns during the war have shocked their hosts by their lousy heads, dirty...

Press. as.) THIS is a well-produced book ; it has interesting illustrations, but the text is somewhat uneven. Thus a nonsensical attempt is made to indicate the ." mystical...

By CUSTOS APART from a slump in insurance shares, there has been virtually no visible reaction in the stock markets to the announcement of the Government's social insurance...

another account of the North African campaign by a war correspondent. For it has all the marks of its kind. There are the usual chats with generals, the usual meetings (and...