/4 ITTLE by little the truth is beginning to get disentangled about the situation in Greece, though it is evident that even Sir Walter Citrine and his T.U.C. colleagues who are...

King Peter of Yugoslavia has shown good sense in reversing the mistake he made in dismissing his Prime Mnister, Dr. Subasitch because of his disapproval of the Tito-Subasitch...

Frenchmen are disappointed that General de Gaulle has not been invited to attend the meeting between Mr. Churchill, Marshal Stalin and President Roosevelt. Though they are...

Liberals are professing a growing confidence that a notable revival of their party is in sight, and that an intensive effort in the constituencies will yield striking results at...

The debate in the House of Lords on Wednesday on the dis- semination of information about the Empire combines with the arrival of the Duke of Gloucester at Canberra as...

Both considerable interest and considerable value attach to the report on scientific research in India presented to the Government of India by Professor A. V. Hill, who went to...

Sir Alexander Dunbar, chairman of the English Steel Corporation, in a speech at Sheffield on Tuesday, admitted that some Govern- ment intervention in industry was inevitable,...

H ITLER can hardly have found it easy to decide whether to commemorate by a public utterance the anniversary of his assumption of power twelve years ago. To keep silence would...

0 NE of the post-war problems which will in all likelihood be settled before the war is over concerns the future of the three million or so of Sudeten Germans who before the war...

By STRATEGICUS W ITH the Russians advancing upon Berlin, distant on Tuesday only 85 miles, it is clear that the German crisis is mounting steadily. It is, however, not merely...

By VISCOUNT IIINCHINGBROOKE, M.P. F ROM the two speeches which the Prime Minister has made on the rebuilding of the House of Commons it is obvious that he contemplates that the...

By KATHARINE ELLIOT N " the years between "—the phrase presumably means the years I between the two wars—I was one of many people to whom the word "Empire" had a sinister ring....

• By F. J. OSBORN W AR creates or enlarges a housing shortage in three ways: by the lag in replacement of houses wearing out ; by the absence of provision for new families...

By CONSTANCE REAVELEY T HERE'S a lot of education resistance nowadays." So said a working man, when I suggested that factory groups should discuss education. He never spoke a...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I SPENT an agreeable afternoon last Saturday judging a com- petition between the several Young Farmers' Clubs in Kent. This may sound a chilly and most...

appreciate fully this unique play, which is one of the masterpieces of Shakespeare's dramatic art. On the other hand it has been a playground for the silly who do not...

reserved for any player blatantly advertising his tactical intention. " Why don't you send him a post-card? " was the time-honoured question to be addressed to anyone who...

KENNETH CLARK'S recent broadcast annihilation of the art critic requires this non-existent creature to take stock of himself and his fellow-shades, as a result of which...

Slit,—The Spectator his performed a valuable service in recently pub- lishing letters written by young miners who express views about the coal muddle which are too rarely heard....

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—Your leading article Science and Prosperity gave an excellent interpretation of the Conference arranged by the British Association without attempting...

Stn,—Most of the protests regarding the Requisitioned Lands Bill now before Parliament are chiefly (and rightly) concerned with the threatened extinction of commons and other...

416 produce 991. per cent. of the total output" means in effect that, whereas 33o undertakings produce only an average of 3,390 tons per annum, the remaining 416 undertakings...

Snt,—The correspondence in your columns ensuing on my article in The Spectator has been as depressing to me as my original article was, apparently, depressing to you. Numerous...

SIR,— Running through Mr. Hurlstone-Jones's article in last week's Spectator is the implied suggestion that the deciding factor in the parents' choice for their sons between a...

SIR,—On the front page of your issue of January 19th you write, "There is evidence that many German prisoners have seriously believed that the intention of the Allies is to...

SIR,—The Dcan of Wells would seem to make too little of the legal elements introduced into the Rite of Inthronisation in late mediaeval times; but he is surely correct in saying...

Sta,—May I briefly direct attention to the least recognised aspect of the activities of the Ministry of Food, the work of the Ministry's Food Advice Division? Through its...

SIR, —May I submit a correction under paragraph "Information as re- quested " giving the spellings of the Greek explanation of E.A.M. and E.L.A.S. They should be as follows :...

SIR, —I shall be glad if you will allow me to correct a mistake which occurred in my letter, published in The Spectator of January 26th, when the weekly rations in Paris...

A GOOD deal of nervousness about the ultimate fate of commons appro- priated for war services has been vigorously and pessimistically expressed. Every countryman will agree with...

StR,—I am sure your readers would be grateful if Sir Stephen Tallents would tell us a little more about the moles. 1. It seems to be clear that the number of molehills in a...

Springboard, poems 1941-1944. By Louis MacNeice. (Faber and Faber. 6s.) Eros in Dogma. By George Barker. (Faber and Faber. 6s.) APPARENTLY Mr. Eliot always intended the four...

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An Unauthoritative Report drafted by H. W. Arndt. Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. (Oxford University Press. 12s. 6d.) IF this book...

winner of Crossword No. 306 is Dr. E. MAY OASTLER, Ericstane, lieknsburgh, Dumbartonshire.

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct h i;, : an of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, FTh :wry 13th. Envelopes should be...

By CUSTOS AFTER their attack of " peace jitters " the stock markets have no recovered some of their poise. Long-term hopes based on chea money and a higher national income have...

An Apology for the Arts. By W. Macneile Dixon. (Arnold. 7s. 6d.) The Kingdom of the Mind. By Albert Mansbridge. (Dent. 12s. 6d.) THERE are deeper reasons for linking together...