A PRIL may be-said to have brought spring and the opening of the campaigning-season in Europe. Great events are unquestionably pending, and they may determine the whole issue of...

Tobruk had its months of glorious and invaluable resistance, and the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines is still carrying on the epic struggle which has made it famous'; but in...

After Bruneval on the Normandy coast, St. Nazaire in the estuary of the Loire ; and after that, it may be, any one of a thousand points on the long coast-line where Germans...

Any deductions that may be drawn from the defeat of the Government candidate—Air-Chief-Marshal Sir A. Longmore, standing as a Conservative—in the Grantham by-election are not...

There can now be little doubt that King Boris of Bulgaria yielded to Hitler's demands during his recent visit to Berchtes- gaden. His Prime Minister, Dr. Filoff, hardly...

Mr. Brendan Bracken's announcement of a new form of censor- ship on messages sent abroad by Press correspondents has received less attention than it deserved. There is one kind...

Speeches in the House of Lords in these days often get less attention than they deserve, and it is only possible here to touch on one or two of the more outstanding features of...

The whole community is in a certain sense under discipline now, but there is still a wide gulf between the discipline applied in the services and that which exists in civilian...

q't HE task of the British Government in the matter of an J. Indian settlement has been to discover not the solution that would be the best and the most practical in its own...

Standard, was to preside at last Sunday's Trafalgar Square meeting called to demand a diversionary offensive in the interests of Russia interested me considerably, for some ten...

all accounts, been an outstanding success. A verbatim transcript of his exchanges with British, Indian, American and other jour- nalists would be singularly entertaining. One...

I have had a very interesting comment on the St. Nazaire raid from M. Mendes-France, Under-Secretary for Finance in M. Blum's Government, and the latest Frenchman of importance...

I HOPE the Government Departments concerned, primarily 1 . the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Information, will give urgent attention to the message in Saturday's Times from...

of the Paper Control of an extra ration for the publication of books of special public importance, and to the surprising opposition of one or two leading publishers to...

Lord Lang at this momenror not—enters this week on his well' deserved retirement. He might think of employing it on another novel. His youthful production, The Young Glenroy,...

By STRATEGICUS I T is encouraging, in a phase that must yield depressing news, to hear of two such stirring exploits as the battle east of Malta and the raid on St. Nazaire....

By KENNETH MATTHEWS III is believed that these are the first translations of Slovene poetry to be published in English.] T HE Slovenes number only about a million people all...

By W. S. ASCOLI THERE is surely no part of our war effort so absurd as the I interpretation and taxation of excess profits. Much that is taxed is not " excess " profit in any...

By SIR STEPHEN TALLENTS M ANY people must have blessed the willows this February. For when chrysanthemums and carnations were selling in the market for eighteenpence a bloom,...

By A SUBALTERN TWO formulae have long striven against each other for accep- j[ tance in British propaganda to Germany. The first runs: "Germans and Nazis are one. Nazism is but...

IT rippled quite deliciously inside, The waves of sweetness flowed upon my lips, The magic of it bridged the deep divide, Sprayed faery foam amidst the sister ships. The waves...

of sport, the post-war world will bring no very serious deprivation. They will still, without undue restriction, be able to play their golf and kill their partridges. But for...

come to think of it, in the variety of my means of locomotion. When I was very small I travelled in a padded box swung upon the back of a mule across the Persian mountains. I...

By HAROLD N ICOLSON T HE impending restrictions on the use of petrol will create for many millions of people transport-problems of great difficulty. One of the more agreeable...

sad thought for me that my sons will never steam in a white yacht across the Gulf of California, or travel in a private car from Los Angeles to Mexico City. My sympathy is...

SLOWLY the long downs roll With the wave's regularity: The parallel streams Idle through meadows, Cool the unhurried cattle, Down through the mud-flats To the rip-tide estuary....

Those who keep poultry will do double service if they give their hens all the chickweed they dig up, as well as any unused bulbous roots, which should be sliced but not cooked....

a deal of good food to destruction by forbidding the present sale, except under special privilege, of the variety of potato called by the magnificent name of "Majestic." The...

The war seems to encourage predatory animals as well as predatory nations. I should estimate that the number of jays in the country round me has trebled within the last year or...

Very different accounts have been given of the Italian prisoners now working on English farms. Here is one of the more compli- mentary sort. A fellow-worker on a very...

An agricultural labourer, who turns his hand with intelligence to many jobs, perhaps even poaching, dug up a nest of very young rabbits. Having some difficulty in finding enough...

March of Time." Generally released.--" Builders." Generally released.—" The Man Who Came Back." At the London Pavilion. THIS is a week in which the battle, Fact versus Fiction,...

supply owing to war conditions are advertised an this journal should not be taken as an indication that they are necessarily available for export.

title "Braced and Compact? " tempts me to share with yow readers a rediscovery I have just matte oi a most illuminating, helpful, thought-provoking book whith I first met in...

the personal and emotional outlook of a woman—of the generation whose fathers fought in the last war, whose husbands and brothers are fighting in this, and who, if they are...

BRACED AND COMPACT ? " SIR,—Are not the attitudes suggested both by Mrs. Tarn and the barrack-room talk (referred to by "Lance-Corporal ") both indicative of something rather...

based on past experience in various parts of Europe before and during this war, and on observation in this country, as well as on such data as come to us from Europe today. I...

we cannot expect everybody to feel pity for the unfortunate Jewish victims of the Struma ' tragedy, but one who attempts to justify the denial of pity should have pre- viously...

Spectator which we now receive for our subscriptions, I suggest that you make it a future rule that when you write a leading article you should take the trouble to make yourself...

March zoth 3 welcome to everyone who has followed the deplorable record of the Colonial Office in its administration of the Mandate for Palestine. The vacillation and the...

Sift,—Miss Irene Ward, M.P., insists in your columns on the need for inquiry into the methods whereby policy has been determined, and for an explanation of how the most...

nt,—I have hitherto regarded The Spectator as a strong advocate of die application of reason and common sense to the many difficulties w e have to meet _Ind will have to meet...

Snt,—The realistically unhysterical attitude of your leading article, "Government and Press," is welcome and timely. Too frequently such comments can be roughly divided into two...

Sue,—May I support "Private Soldier's" letter in your issue March 6th ? E.N.S.A. recently presented "Music At Night," a gramme of popular "classics" sung and played by artists...

SIR, —Your correspondent, "Bewildered," enquires in The Specter of March 20th, "Who was Mrs. Walford?"—and, as one of daughters, I propose to enlighten him. My mother's first...

SIR,—I see that Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and 14 other Midlands towns are sending their civic heads to London, to protest to the Minister of Home Security against what...

SIR,—At a school held last week-end at the Percival Guildhouse, Rugby (centre for adult education), in conjunction with the Workers' Education Association and the Adult Schools,...

there is one aspect of the case which has, I believe, received no mention in the Press. The Daily Mirror has repeatedly criticised those officers of lower Field Rank who...

A Trenchant Tory MR. WOODRUFF'S notebook is not easy to review respectably. The temptation is to transcribe a series of extracts and leave the reader to judge from them whether...

Shall Our Children Live or Die ? A Reply to Vansittart the German Problem. By Victor Gollancz. (Gollancz. M. GOI1ANCZ'S book is ostensibly directed against that of Germany...

Germany's First European Protectorate. By Eugene V. FAO. (Hale. us. 6c1.) ExcErr for the rather too frequent citations of Tacitus, and i harking-back to Julius Caesar as a...

Elizabethan Commentary. By Hilaire Belloc. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.) MR. BELLOC is a teasing, captious, incorrigible historian. I use the word historian deliberately, having at 'first...

Death and the Dancing Footman. By Ngaio Marsh. (Crime Club 8s. 6d.) THE authors of the first five of these stories deserve every com- mendation for sticking to their business...

Mk. EVELYN Wsumi has an agreeable way of making his r feel that he writes as easily as people are said to fall off I His manner is vigorous, and unblushingly free of affectation...

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55.) THIS tract takes its title from a remark attributed to Lincoln and it is an excellent and most timely text, no matter who first said it. "If the end brings me out all...

Britain in Peace and War. By Feliks Topolski. Introduction by James Laver. (Methuen. i8s.) MR. TOPOLSKI, the Polish artist, came to this country several years before the war,...

Harris Harbison. .Princeton and Oxford University Press. 24s.) THE present study is a serious account of the diplomatic negotia- tions of Antoine de Noailles and Simon Renard,...

By CUSTOS BUDGET shadows are gradually lengthening across the s markets, but I agree with the general view that regards Kingsley Wood's plans as of comparatively minor...

SIR ALEXANDER ROGER'S VIEWS 55 annual general meeting of the Automatic Telephone and Electric pany, Limited, was held on April 1st at Exchange Station dings, Liverpool. The...

BRITISH ALUMINIUM COMPANY WORKS FULLY EMPLOYED ir the annual meeting of the British Aluminium Co., Ltd., held on larch 31st at Shrewsbury, the chairman, Mr. R. W. Cooper,...

CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA MR. VINCENT A. GRANTHAM ON THE POSITION Tan eighty-eighth ordinary general meeting of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and...