T HE discussions in London between British Ministers and the French Foreign Minister, M. Bidault, who was accompanied by expert advisers, evidently covered a wide field,...

Both Egypt and Turkey have made formal declarations of war on Germany and Japan, and thus, by becoming full belligerents before March 1st, qualify to participate as members of...

The inter - American conference .at Mexico City has been debating questions covering a vast range of interests shared by the United States and Latin-American countries...

The Government's change of plan in regard to housing, announced by Mr. Sandys last Friday, shows that the series of makeshifts in regard to temporary housing have been a...

In opening the British Books Exhibition which is to tour the United States, the American Ambassador on Wednesday paid a graceful compliment to the craftsminship of the producers...

The Distribution of Industry Bill, which has now been issued, seems to indicate that the Government intends to implement the Barlow Report either in part only or by piecemeal...

The issue of an electioneering circular by Mr. Morgan Philips, secretary of the Labour Party, is a sign of the intensified campaign in the constituencies in preparation for the...

T HE counterpart to the question "Where do we go from here?" is the declaration "Here is where we go from." That sums up in half-a-dozen words the significance of Mr....

T HE Conservative Party, I gather, is in search of a name. So, at least, a resolution to be submitted to the coming Party Confer- ence indicates. And on the whole it is not...

By STRATEGICUS r HE Ninth and First American armies' offensive has followed 1 swiftly on the prelude between the Maas and the Rhine. Their achievement developes so rapidly that...

By G. C. DELANY " N OUGHT may endure but Mutability,' says Shelley, and as we cast our eyes towards the Egyptian political scene it seems that this is sometimes only too...

By D. W. BROGAN A S the end of the war comes obviously closer, and is reduced to a matter of speculation as to the identity of the espada who will have the apparent honour of...

By HELEN BENTWICH I HAVE in the last year or two given over four hundred talks to men and women in the Forces . on varying aspects of Citizenship, including the whole of the...

Dark on Crummock Water scarred and massive Melbreak ponders ; plumbs with gaze impassive Pools that hold no image but himself, Wrinkle on snarling wrinkle, shelf on shelf,...

By H. G. RAWLINSON S the problem of Indian rural poverty soluble? In 19o3 the I question occurred to a Calcutta merchant of the name of Sir Daniel Hamilton. Hamilton was a...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T is evident from the reports which trickle through from neutral countries, as well as from sinister statements published from time to time in the German...

MUSIC MR. GERALD COOPER has resumed his concerts at the Wigmore Hall, now given on Tuesday evenings at 6.45 and lasting about an hour—which is really as much as a busy public...

" With the Marines at Tarawa." At the Empire.—" Practically Yours." At the Plaza.—" Three Is a Family." At the London Pavilion.—" None But the Lonely Heart." At the Odeon. With...

THE THEATRE ROBERTSON HARE and Alfred Drayton have found in Vernon Sylvaine's new farce, Madame Louise, a play worthy of their comic faculties. I may have been unlucky, but...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—Some of the views evinced in Great Britain, the United States and other countries over the present situation in Greece have painfully impressed most...

SIR,--I disagree with Young Chemist when he says that it does not lie in his power as a scientist to improve the ethics of modern industry and that he can only do itas a citizen...

SIR, —As Janus has commented on my letter in The Times on the Falangist regime in Spain, may I make this amplification? I did not speak of this regime as being a "permanent...

that there are at least tr,000,000 Jews in the world (Mr. Hammersley gives this number, which is, how- ever, much lower than any estimate I have seen from any other source) and...

Stu,—Mr. St. John Ervine's protest and plea on this matter will, I am sure, win the approbation of many of your readers. But his closing sentence is amazing. He writes: "It is...

Sta,—In your leading article last week, you say "So far as the Treaty of Riga goes, it was freely negotiated." But H. A. L. Fisher says "the Russians were pushed back across the...

exceedingly interesting subject of Entropy is difficult to deal with in words, there is a good deal to be said for Mr. W. J. Turner's view that it can be made more intelligible...

question of oaths. I have long felt this subject needs clearing up ; and swearing on the Bible abolished. The principle underlying it is obviously that if, having sworn on the...

twenty-five years ago I and my family spent a holiday in i_snarkshire, and my boys struck up a friendship with the local trapper— one of the finest Scots characters it has been...

THE more I have looked into it, the more excellent appear to me the scheme and particular plans of the Youth Service Volunteers. Many thousand boys and guis between the ages of...

Sus,—On the rzth December, a squad of the Special Branch raided the premises of Freedom Press, with a search warrant issued under Defence Regulation 39s. This warrant authorised...

SIR,—Mr. Mackinnon considers that the expression "task force" is meaningless I suggest that it is, on the contrary, a perfectly accurate one. In peace-time and probably in...

The Last Northern Frontier THE third of the Canadian domain which lies between the sixtieth degree North latitude and the Arctic Ocean is the last frontier of America. From the...

EVERY work of art is an exploration of reality, and every individual artist conquers a corner of that reality for his domain. It is given only to the greatest artists to annex...

The Nazi Kultur in Poland. Written in Warsaw under the German Occupation. Foreword by John Masefield. (H.M. Stationery Office, for Polish Ministry of Information. 5s.) No one...

My Days of Anger. By James T. Farrell (Roulledge. 10s. 6d.) In Youth Is Pleasure. By Denton Welch. (Routledge. 8s. 6d.) IT is curious that in a week when I have been reading...

of Relief Workers. (Oxford University Press. 5s.) Textbook for Relief Workers Tins little book would make an excellent textbook for groups of workers preparing to undertake...

The Winner of Crossword No. 310 is D. C. GLEN, ESQ., 188, Seacliffe Road, Co. Down, N.I.

i f! Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct .,ution of thw week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, %larch 13th. Envelopes...

By CUSTOS STEEL DIVIDEND POLICY It is apparent from the profits and dividends just announced by the Lancashire Steel Corporation and Dorman, Long that distribu- tion policy in...

Poetry for You. By C. Day Lewis. (Basil BlackwelL 4s. 6d.) THIS is an excellent book, and should be in every school library, and available to all boys and girls. The sub-title,...

and Faber. 3s. 6d.) Tins little book, which contains an address originally delivered by Mr. Eliot before the Virgil Society last year, shows the acute analysis and quiet...