L WENTY - FIVE years ago on Thursday the Royal Air Force was created by the merging of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal aval Air Service. It had gained supremacy in the air...

All 'who have studied the question of European reconstruction ecognise that there will be no more difficult task than that of deal- g with the mind of the German people. There...

_ Thanks to the participation of peers with the administrative and diplomatic experience of Lord Perth, Lord Tyrrell and Lord Mulkey and the Ministerial experience of Lord...

The experience of war-time evacuation forced on the attention of the public the degradation of the life still lived by a considerable section of poorer classes in English towns....

It is generally recognised that the Government must have ample powers of controlling war production even to the point of taking over going concerns and running them under...

C.E.M.A. (the Council for the Encouragement of Music and Arts) has ventured yet a stage further in its enterprising campai in the interests of drama, music and art by re-opening...

The Board of Education has been going the right way to work i endeavouring to get an agreed solution of the vexed question the teaching of religion in schools. In his speech at...

Mr. Ernest Brown had something to say last week about the work his department is doing in preparing the scheme of the promised national health service. This work is still of an...

Commons on Tuesday was marked, apart from one or two speeches of negligible portance, by restraint, sanity and goodwill to India. As Mr. ttlee said in closing the debate, if the...

O NE bombing question which has its delicate side, but certainly needs rather earnest consideration in quarters where such things are decided, arises out of day-attacks on...

By STRATEGICUS G ENERAL MONTGOMERY has won another victory over Rommel, a more brilliant and probably a more decisive one San that at Alamein. But it is doubtful if anyone...

By VICE-ADMIRAL MUSELIER * F OR modern fleets the bases of Toulon, Ajaccio, Mers-el-Kebir and Bizerta form a quadrilateral the command of which gives control of the Western...

By J. M. SPAIGHT B EFORE 1943 ends appalling ruin will have been wrought in Germany by our Bomber Command, the Bomber Command of the 8th Air Force of the United States Army,...

By the RIGHT REV. F. J. WESTERN (late Bishop of Tinnevelly) For many years past, therefore, there has been joint consultation and practical co-operation between different...

By E. H. M. RELTON O NE expected, on returning to England after eighteen months spent in Canada and the United States, to find things altered. We had kept, of course, in...

Go, words, on winds of war. Let invoc-ating breath Adjure what ruthful influences on earth remain Wherefore our common kindness should be done to death. No answer comes. The...

By HAROLD N1cOLSON I T is more than a year since on this page I referred to the effect of the blockade upon our Allies in Europe, and made a special plea for the relief of...

You burn with zeal to fight a fire Who never had a fire to fight Save that within, which you aspire (In vain?) to set and keep alight. PATRIC DICKINSON. The fact that goods...

Junior Miss." At the Saville Theaire.-- , . Strike a New Note." At the Prince of Wales Theatre. FEW minutes after the curtain rose on the new comedy from the .S.A., junior...

Fires Were Started " and " Shadow of a Doubt." At the New Gallery and the Tivoli. Tres Were Started is a Crown Film Unit documentary of the London blitz. It tells the story of...

AMERICA AT DORLAND HALL ON April and there was opened in London an exhibition that has had great success in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The original exhibition was to...

are alwas told "it is the lack of status that is the handicap," and this is to s extent—but only to some extent—true. What causes this lack of " status where it does arise? a....

to Army Education in the National Press, and the undersigned feel that the public should hay' • some of the facts of what often happens at "educational meetings. The meeting...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sm,—You have done me the honour to invite me to write an article on the contention that the adoption of the principle underlying the Beveridge scheme...

Sm,—Who is responsible for the talks given by speakers under the n auspices of the Ministry of Information? A recent address almost suggests a Fifth Columnist at work. The...

comment on the most timely warning given by Dr. Marrack in his article, "Need Europe Starve? " published in your columns on March 19th? Dr. Marrack draws our attention to the...

SIR, —The description of the " hand-log " given by Vice-Admiral Beamish is correct, but not his conclusion that therefore the knot is a unit of distance. Nicholls's Seamanship...

Sut,—As usual, I turned eagerly to " A Spectator's Notebook " as soon as your last issue reached me, for " Janus " long since claimed me as one. of his most fervent disciples,...

have just seen " Janus's" remarks about the term " Under-belly " in your issue of March 19th. Though the expression was used by the Prime Minister in a broadcast (but even Jove...

your issue of March 26th, you call special attention to Lord Cranbome's statement in the House of Lords that some Boo refugees a month were coming to this country, and that...

Sut,—I must assume from his persistent refusal to discuss the main issue that " Janus " himself is beginning to entertain doubts of the propriety of the Beveridge publicity...

Sza,—The Easter Offering is one of two things—either (t) a charitable gift from the parishioners or (2) a part of the annual stipend. As a parson I should much prefer to see it...

county groups are being formed to give special advice to the central'authority on such subjects as Nature reserves. Each county will strive to secure its own particular bird,...

Sta,—Thomas Robins' well-timed letter of protest might, I suggest, be answered by the one word " gentility." That is the explanation of " no " being pronounced " now," and...

The Historian as Prophet Reflections on History. By Jakob Burckhardt. Translated by M. D. Hottinger. (Allen and Unwin. 125. 6d.) JAKOB BURCKHARDT'S interests were by no means...

THE poor gentleman whose letters are given to the public in this volume is introduced by his editor in a sort of obituary where, if the truth is to be told, he has about as much...

LAURENCE BENDIT is a practising psychiatrist, Phoebe Payne is clairvoyant, and the product of this parmership is a remarkable book. The authors make many statements dogmatically...

Health for All. By D. Stark Murray, M.B., Ch.B., B.Sc. (Gollancz. 6s.) THE first part of this very suggestive study deals with what Lord Horder once called " the maze, the...

Dawn in Siberia. By C. D. R. Phillips. (Frederick Muller. 8s. 6d.) AMONG the various offshoots of the Mongol world upon which Tsarist Russia trampled in her eastward march...

Clark lectures given at Cambridge, 1942.) By David Cecil. (Constable. 75. 6d.) TfustrrE to Cecil let us pay, Who did not as a pedant stray Clarking from Isis- to the Cam To...

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. By Casson McCullers. (The Cresset Press. 9s. 6d.) A Time to Be Born. By Dawn Powell. (Constable. 9s.) This is the Road. By Kathleen,Wallace....

IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct sjution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, App 13th. Envelopes...

The winner of Crossword No. 210 is Dr. D. A. BANNERMAN, II, Strathearn Place, Edinburgh.

By CUSTOS IT is a striking commentary on the state of markets that the good news from Tunisia has failed to stimulate any real activity. In every section, including gilt-edged...

(Murray. 18s.) THIS correspondence between Princess Lieven and Lady Cowper (afterwards Lady Palmerston) was hardly worth translating and certainly not worth printing. A few...

(Penguin Books. 9d.) Tits series is always worth buying, and it is perhaps captious to complain that some numbers too much resemble a family face with its recurrent, inescapable...