S public opinion in the United States moves towards realisa- tion of the danger that threatens America, action on the part of the Executive keeps pace with it, and even Congress...

The German desire to avert a geneial conflagration in the Balkans no doubt extends to Greece, but the Nazis have to take account of the fact that, apart from Somaliland, Italy...

The representatives of Balkan States who visited Germany month ago were told to go home and settle their differences °Y negotiation. Rumania took the hint, settled with...

Anglo-Egyptian relations, said a special correspondent of The Times at Cairo in Wednesday's issue of that journal, have never been better than they are today, in the week of the...

The third, and much the gravest, violation of the neutrality of Eire by Germany took place on Monday, when a co-opera- tive creamery was destroyed, other damage done and three...

Leon Trotsky, the victim of assassination at Mexico City last week, had lived an uneasy but never an inactive life since he fell out with Stalin and was finally expelled from...

The decision of the Governor of the Territory of the Chad, in French Equatorial Africa, supported by the Military Com- mander, to stand by General de Gaulle and fight on by the...

Some instructive facts and figures are given in the sem i " official German publication, Die Deutsche Volkswirtschaft C gi the subject of man-power available for industry in...

The dignified and wise words spoken by King Haakon of Norway in a broadcast in the Norwegian news on Monday will have made many listeners reflect on the difference between his...

and war front are one and indivisible : the spirit of civilians and troops is one spirit, because the nation stands united. But many feel that a clearer definition of our...

to the establishment of no fewer than six foreign armies on British soil, to be trained under their own flags, under their own commanders, and under their own military law....

three months? First of all, it has asked Ministers of the day nearly 4, 000 questions, and, even assuming that zo per cent. were redundant and unnecessary, 3,000 remain....

Minister of Supply on May 22nd that workers engaged on urgent Ministry of Supply contracts should work full time seven days a week was admittedly an emergency order made...

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Almost unnoticed a score of new members have appeared to replace the lost, the retired and the ennobled. We shall hear no more in the...

A report on the condition of aliens interned at Huyton Camp f orwarded to the Home Secretary by Sir Waldron Smithers, Conservative M.P. for Chislehurst, affords further evidence...

Postage on this issue: Inland ifd., Foreign and Imperial id., Canada id.

T HERE are many reasons for thinking that the nation will be called on to face in the next few weeks the ordeal that it always knew it must face. Those weeks are critical for...

Shaw's new play The Millionairess, which Scotland has had the opportunity of seeing before London. It is in no Apple Cart vein ; indeed the chief question it raises is whether...

bombing Essen lately. I have just been given one very sufficient reason, on decidedly good authority. An English business man whose particular work has taken him to Essen at...

Woman who knows: " Sir Philip Joubert says he can't tell a German aeroplane by the sound. I can." JANUs.

of Montana will probably never be known. When two versions of a conversation a deux disagree there is no known means of de- ciding between them, except on the ground of inherent...

Times, I find my credulity rather strained by the declara- tion in its leading article on Wednesday that " in the settlement of 1919 nearly a billion and a hall of Magyars were...

hours in Edinburgh than I have in the last six months in London. The reason eludes me ; I simply state the fact. * * *

Queen, in the course of a tour of industrial districts that day, observed, " They are very good at darts," and on Thursday morning that Mr. Churchill, visiting Ramsgate, said to...

gone as guests to the United States. " There appmrs to be only one opinion here,' ; a friend writes to me from New York, " concerning the youngsters who have arrived_ admiration...

E V EN if the precise purpose of the scattered night-raids by single machines or groups of two or three is not perfectly clear, it is fairly obvious what the Germans are aiming...

By STRATEGICUS A LTHOUGH it is the unexpected that happens in war, who, a year ago, would have dared predict that this anniversary would find Germany with a new ally facing a...

By KENNETH LINDSAY, M.P. F IRST of all a word about ourselves. Gallant and inde- pendent Arnold Wilson is gone, Ronald Cartland, cruel loss of a brave spirit, Porritt who...

By PROF. E. ALLISON PEERS W HETHER or no Spain will enter the war on the side of Hitler dces not, as is often asserted, depend solely upon Hitler's good pleasure. The...

By HONOR CROOME Murray Bay, Canada T HOUGH Government evacuation of children overseas is suspended, the private exodus goes on, at the time of writing, unabated. Every week...

THAT lucent, dewy, crystal prose— Oh, what a priceless dish Whereon—a feast fqr tongue, eye, nose, Beyond the gourmet's wish— To serve, with tongue of nightingale, Not manna...

By RICHARD CHURCH T HE Prime Minister has tried to kill Official English. Having spent twenty-four of the most formative years of my life in Government Departments, I almost...

AN experiment in naturalisation, of which something was said earlier in. the year, is promising well; and it is hoped that the success is due nor only to the influence of the...

generally founded on experience and endorse wisdom. They may nevertheless be quite upset by the advance of science. In this class is the doggerel about the value of a swarm of...

seems to me, is the inclusion of a patch given up to wild flowers, and one of its virtues is that it is at its best when the rest of the garden is apt to become a little dingy....

Young Tom Edison." At the Regal. THE style of this film—whatever its defects—marks a refresh- ing change from the carefully formulated biographies directed by William Dieterle...

foreign guests not only how to grow more food, but how to cook, preserve and eat more sorts of food. A generation ago a Japanese visitor said that the best thing he could do by...

of wealth and skill through the agency of the Huguenots who found asylum here. Persecution abroad has brought us during the present year many people of many nationalities...

the original arc of the discus- sion- under the heading " Christianity and Paganism," impelled so to do by a golden sentence in the letter of your correspondent Mr. W. R....

it is essential that letters on these pages should be brief. We are anxious not to reduce the number of letters, but unless they are shorter they must be fewer. Writers are...

to explain precisely what they mean by their assertion that: " For some, pacificism is a genuine vocation," demands support from those who, like myself, believe that pacificist...

Sit,—The derivation of the word pagan from " paganus," a rustic, implies its aboriginal significance, i.e., the religious beliefs of the rustic, one living apart from the...

" We have, as a nation, and as individuals, fallen lamentably short of the Christian ideal," is one which would command almost un:versa l, but, nevertheless, unthinking assent....

pacifism (not pacificism) is a pacifist (not pacificist), as spelt in the Spectator of August 9th and r6th. Your correspondents can be excused in their inability to find the...

rejoinder, and to confess that it should have been obvious to me that minority opinions cannot be inspired by God, but must emanate from some sinister origin. With regard to...

letter to which exception must be taken. The first is his implied classifica- tion of such thinkers as Plato and Socrates as " pagans." One of the chief points in the indictment...

anicle in your issue of the 23rd instant has beea recognised in civil lif e by the Workmen's Compensation (Supplementary Allowances) Act, 1940, which came into force on the 19th...

SIR,—I have followed with interest Dr. Shahani's and others' recent articles on India. I have not had the privilege of having read articles on the subject for forty years as is...

Sta,—" Janus's " guardianship of the accuracy of the published figures of British air losses is intrinsically unconvincing. Few people doubt the accuracy of the figures anyhow;...

Ste,—In your " News of the Week " under the heading " Compulsory Arbitration on Wages " attention is drawn to the difficulty of deciding "to what extent the workers are entitled...

SIR, —In the article by Mr. J. M. Spaight in your last issue the ques- tions of quantity and quality of aircraft are raised in connexion with the possibility of mass-production....

the present conflict are apt to be somewhat unreal because of the extreme elasticity of meaning attached to both these terms. Christianity can be anything from the worst...

SIR, —In your note on " The Harvest in England " you state that " the crop showed no better than moderate—the wheat above average, the oats very much below." It would be...

Sra,—I have lately learned of an occurrence which shocks me, and which I cannot but think will shock your readers. An old German gentleman of about 70, a Class C refugee of the...

must confess to feeling surprise at the letter signed "Pharos" in your last issue, in which your correspondent complains that the education of his two children, aged eight and...

Stu,—I think there must be many who share the feeling of disquiet that it appears to be necessary to starve the people of Holland, Belgium, France, and possibly Scandinavia, in...

Sits,--In M. Lapie's article the colonel of the Foreign Legion is reported as saying : " Action is sufficient in itself, without regard to its purpose." Dr. Rauschning, in his...

Snt,—As stated by " Janus," the failure to broadcast the Promenade Concerts this year is regrettable. However, I feel that it is even more regrettable from a propaganda...

Sim,—The letter that you published last week under the title " War Aims " is useful and illuminating. That there can still be anyone who can complain that nobody has told him...

Sul,—In the August 16th leading article " Facts about Famine " you claim that " potatoes eaten as vegetables provide much more nutrition than when converted into pig flesh."...

Sm,—Each of the two pieces quoted by Mr. Richard Church in his review of my Poems is defaced by an uncorrected misprint. " Secret for " scent " in the first, " sea-sand " for "...

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Tins fascinating book, as the author tells us in his preface, is not an autobiography. His " purpose has been to record only a few selected experiences." Yet from the record...

Scandinavia. By Alma Luise Olson (Lippincott. 14s.) AN American newspaper correspondent of Swedish extraction, settling in Stockholm in the summer of 1927, when the feat of...

Speeches on Foreign Policy. By Viscount Halifax. Edited by H. H. E. Craster. (Oxford University Press. tos. 6d.) THE editing of this very useful volume has been excellently...

Hamlet Had an Uncle. By Branch Cabell. (The Bodley Ilea! 7s. 6d.) • The Lights Go Down. By Erika Mann. Translated from the German by Maurice Samuel. (Seeker and Warburg. 8s....

The Atonement in New Testament Teaching. By Vincent Taylor, Ph.D., D.D. (London : The Epworth Press. 8s. 6d.) DR. TAYLOR, Principal of Wesley College, Headingley, is in the...

-Barbarians and Philistines. By T. C. Worsley. (Hale. los. 6d.) SLINGING brickbats at the English Public School system is an old diversion in which Mr. Worsley has had many...

(" Penguin Special." 6d.) The Case for Family Allowances. By Eleanor F. Rathbone, M.P. (" Penguin Special." 6d.) SIXTEEN years ago Dr. Rathbone produced a book, The Dis-...

As the Burma Road becomes world news, Miss Bigland's book explodes in the lap of Western Civilisation as a reminder that the war in China is three years old. Against all the...

ALLIED BAKERIES INCREASED SALES THE fifth annual general meeting of Allied Bakeries Limited was held on August 23rd in London. Mr. W. Garfield Weston, M.P. (the chairman),...

By CUSTOS STOCK markets, like most investors, have shown signs of being a little tired this week, but lack of business has not meant any loss of heart. For technical reasons a...

Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "Crossword Puzzle,"...

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