AN AMERICAN VIA MEDIA T HE Republican Convention at Chicago elected Mr. Thomas Dewey as candidate in November without a dissentient vote, impressed less by his personal...

rIIHE public mind is naturally and rightly too much occupied .1 with greater things to give to the Government's Town and Country Planning Bill and the White Paper it has just...

T HE fourth volume of the Prime Minister's war-time speeches (Onwards to Victory, Cassell, tzs. 6d.) is published this week. I am not much impressed by the way the material has...

By STRATEGICUS S TATEMENTS which appear to suggest the German recognition of what the Allied three-front attack means are already being made by spokesmen whose credit cannot...

By D. W. BROGAN I T is likely that some severe moralists were distressed to discover that, despite " D " Day, interest in the Derby was not totally wiped-out in those classes...

By VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH, M.P. He speedily got to work and instituted conversations with Mr. Berle, the American representative. Much important ground was covered and agreement...

By THE REV. R. J. BLOFELD, C.F. The tendency in most of the early questions is to ask: " Why are the churches empty? " and to couple it with criticism of the charac- ter of...

To you, unknown, whom now I shall not know, I write these words in greeting and farewell ; A wreath to lay upon the quick-turned earth Which took and holds you in a quiet...

By MARTIN HALLIWELL F ORGET for ten minutes the uncertainties of an English May and come on holiday to Rajputana, where the sun shines confidently and predictably every day for...

NICOLSON By HAROLD The second event which illustrates the deterioration of the German character since 1933 is the hysterical glee with which the German people as a whole have...

6. The Sulky Fire." At the Arts Theatre. THE French playwright M. Jean-Jacques Bernard had made a reputa- tion in this country some time before the war, and several of his...

No Greater Love." At the Tatler. — ‘. For Those in Peril." To be generally released. Films on the Technique of Anaes- thesia. For special showing. No Greater Love is a Soviet...

MAY and June have brought some very interesting records. Among them is a fine recording of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 5 in D, played by the Halle orchestra conducted by John...

SIR, —Your contributor " Miles Juvenis " is to be congratulated on stating some issues which he and other of his fellow soldiers feel to be vitally important to their sense of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sia,—Mr. Spaight, in his discussion of the two main conceptions of the basis of a World Air Force, provides a shattering and, to my mind, insuperable...

Sta,—In his " Marginal Comment " of April 28th, Mr. Harold Nicolson tells of his encounter with two United States G.I.s in Pump Court. They were " chewing the cud of...

Sta,—Judging by your paper (admittedly it is one or two months old by the time it arrives here) a false impression is held in England regarding the true state of Argentine...

SIR, —Under stress of war we accustom ourselves to the " impossible " so steadily and persistently that only with an occasional jolt do we realise the point we have reached in...

SIR, —The Indian Census Commissioner's Report, 1941 (Vol. I, p. 33) has something to say upon the notion propounded by Mr. D. M. Sen in your issue of June 16th that " the...

Snt,—May I affirm that, within my own experience, doctors arc the least among all the professions to merit the charge of " commercialism "? I agree, as Dr. Harold H. Sanguinetti...

Six,—Recently there has been in the Press criticism of local authorities for failing to enforce legislation directed to the above-named end. It is not the fault of the local...

SIR, —As a doctor engaged for over fifty years in active general practice, I should like to support Dr. Clarke's admirable letter in The Spectator for June 23rd. Until our...

SIR,-I am afraid that I must ask you to reopen once more the frequently terminated controversy between Mr. Lunn and Mr. Low, in order that I may defend myself against the...

SIR, —What a pity that vicarious nostalgia should have led Mr. Harold Nicolson into factual error! Not one of his Park Avenue ladies could ever have arrived at Cherbourg in the...

Sul,—Has your correspondent Mr. G. A. Allan perhaps forgotten " The Anvil," which on Sunday held the last of its series of meetings at which week by week an Anglican Canon, a...

THE theme of the pollution of streams (which has especially distressed dwellers by the Lea and Gade) has been referred to by the Minister of Agriculture in regard to greater...

Sta,—In his article on Thomas Campbell in your issue of June 56th Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe says: " All anthologists have recognised the unique- ness of Holtenlinden. They have not...

The Comparable Agate Red Letter Nights. By James Agate. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) DRAMATIC criticism that rises to the level of literature is rare in this country. There is, of course,...

From the Life. By Phyllis Bottome. (Faber and Faber. 6s.) SMART, I suppose, is the word for this astounding and unaccount- able farrago, but I should certainly feel justified...

IF the earnestness and sincerity of an author and his courtesy towards those with whom he disagrees could stand surety for the value of his work, Erasmian would have little...

, 6 Nationality in History and Politics." By Frederick Hertz. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 258.) DR. HERTZ begins by examining the term " nation." He shows that its...

Never So Young Again. By Dan Brennan. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.) Berlin Hotel. By Vicki Baum. (Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d.) Target Island. By John Brophy. (Collins. 75. 6d.) THE...

Courts and Cabinets. By C. P. Gooch. (Longmans. I2S. 6d.) DR. GOOCH'S book is a collection of essays on some of the best- known writers of political memoirs. The majority of...

The winner of Crossword No. 275 is MICHAEL HOLLAND, Lulling; lcombe, Sussex.

guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, July nth. Envelopes should be received not...

a half roubles) THIS is a book of translations from English into Russian by the well-known contemporary Russian poet and prose writer, S. Marshak. It consists of fifteen poems...

By CUSTOS THERE may be some disappointment but there should be no surprise that the flying bomb has put an effective check on the rise in the stock markets. It is not that...