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this occasion sanctions have failed, the attempt to apply them was worth making, was best expressed by M. Litvinoff, who held that while in the existing circumstances it would...

T HE meeting of the League Assembly at Geneva has been, and could not but be, a melancholy affair. The abandonment of sanctions was made inevitable by the declared views of...

League and to international discussions generally remains problematic. The elaborately plausible memorandum which she placed before League delegates on Tuesday advances matters...

the Dardanelles has been suspended to allow some of the delegates to attend the League Assembly at Geneva, informal con- versations can be carried on as well at one end of the...

in English news- papers, the now notorious speech made by Mr. Duff Cooper at a dinner of the Association Franco-Grande Bretagne in Paris last week is by no means the irre-...

in the House of Commons on Tuesday, explained unam- biguously his attitude to the " stay-in " strike threatened by Civil Servants. The legal position did not interest him. Civil...

patrols and on the railways continue in Palestine, and in the opinion of many competent observers worse is still to come. Perhaps the greatest danger is that the Arab leaders...

the Bills approved by the French Cabinet, " for the nationa- lisation of the manufacture of war material." They provide for nationalisation by decree, but it is not expected...

that the Opposition were handicapped by the extreme narrowness of the issue upon which they had elected to fight. With characteristic Parliamentary ineptitude they had chosen...

John Simon, who, in the absence of the Prime Minister, was in charge of the debate, might be expected to score heavily, and brilliantly he handled it. " I have here," he said, "...

so often in the House of Commons the storm bur,t from a cloudless sky. Members had assembled on Monday afternoon in scanty numbers expecting a humdrinn Parliamentary day...

The announcement by the Minister of Labour in the House of Commons on Tuesday that the new Unem- ployment Assistance Regulations would, at last, be published on July 14th,...

been reorganised, its retail distribution remains chaotic and inefficient. Over 600 different undertakings, using 43 different voltages and levying different rates, supply the...

(on p. ii.) will be found a statement regarding the current net sale of The Spectator. The figures—an average weekly sale of 21,060 copies over a period of 52 weeks—are the...

T HE American political scene has undergone notable changes during the past month. When the first of the great party conventions met, in Cleveland, the result of the November...

T HE Report of the Ullswater Committee on the future of broadcasting in Britain has now been followed by a 'White Paper giving the Government's decisions on the Committee's...

S IR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S resignation from the Executive Committee of the League of Nations Union is undeniably a blow to the Union. Sir Austen has been an admirable member of...

By R. C. K. ENSOR O N July 8th, 1836, in the then countrified suburb of Camberwell, was born of pure English descent Joseph Chamberlain. His father's family, of Wiltshire...

By F. YEATS-BROWN [Mr. Yeats-Brown's eleventh article, which will appear next week under the title " Martial India," describes a visit to the N.W. Frontier and discusses the...

By DR. NICOL MACNICOL A WORLD . Congress opens in London this week inspired. by the aim of promoting " a fellowship of common understanding and mutual appreciation " among the...

By FREDERIC PROKOSCH IWIIT INIBLEDON has changed," said the old lady IT with the parasol, gently ; " the spirit of Wim- bledon has died, the delight has gone." Then she spoke...

By MICHAEL SPENDER The glaciers of the Arctic on the one hand and of the sub-tropics on the other are not easily pictured in terms of the familiar glaciers of Switzerland. The...

By JOHN SAYLER W E sat in the gravel-bedded garden of the German restaurant. Haifa was quiet tonight. No spit- ting, no demonstrations, no bombs. In the corner sat three of the...

By E. L. WOODWARD Maldon Annie.' She sailed at slack water for Green- wich, and took the tide merrily on her return. She made a second voyage at half-past four, but if you...

of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Since Marshal Pilsudski's death just over one year ago Poland's internal as well as foreign policy has undergone numerous changes, some of great...

STAGE AND SCREEN The Ballet FOKIKE has produced this summer at the Alhambra two creations that overtop by far any new ballet seen in London since the production of Choreartium...

Fury is Herr Fritz Lang's first American picture. The importation of Continental directori is always a nervous business, Hollywood offers so much in the way of technical...

Mr. Christie's Good Wine I FORGET whether among the proverbs that Charles Lamb proved to be untrue was included that which lays down that Good Wine needs no Bush. If omission...

[D'un correspondant parisien] PENDANT que nous ecrivons ces lignes la radio &um ere les gagnants de la tranche du Grand Prix de la Loterie Nationale, ce sweepstake is la...

British Hoopoes In a record of the birds seen this year in the south-eastern counties some special emphasis is laid on the hoopoe and the thick-kneed plover. These two were...

your issue of April 24th a letter written by the Duke of Montrose which says " that the Act which has just been passed has been accepted generally by the Natives of South Africa...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our "News of the Week"...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It would be interesting if Mr. Jeffries would further elucidate his description of the Palestine Arab as " perpetually unheard,...

SIR,—Is it not time that our country and its government did some clear thinking on the question of preparation for war ? Since the Great War it has been elear that any future...

notice how often logic turns out to be the use of words to " get out of " facts. As your corre- spondent points out, the Roman Church denies "dictatorship" with all the force of...

[To the Editor of TUE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I read the article entitled " The Right Way with Italy " in your last number with general assent, except on one point, as to which I feel...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Lloyd asks why dictators think Christians dangerous. I should say for the reason that Christians stand today, in their minority...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —You will, I hope, allow me to support Miss Cunning's letter upon the World Congress of Faiths, which will be held in London between July...

[To the Editor of THE ScEcrxroa.] listened to a lecture recently, in which the speaker discussed the peculiarities of the various human types, national and individual. At the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The greybeards—and not only the greybeards—are apt to shake their heads in disapproval of modern psychologists and modern novelists. They...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTA'TOR.I Sin,—There is nothing peculiarly Scots in the custom of using the paunch of a sheep or other animal as a cooking pot. Very possibly it was the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The only test anyone can apply to determine whether a cbntribution on India can be treated seriously is to see what the contributor has...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the case instanced by " J.P." it does not seem that the law is a " Hass " : I am not so sure about your correspon- dent. I. know that...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—The All-Red Route, upon which we Britishers rightfully pride ourselves, is seriously threatened, and unless immediate steps are taken...

"I AM bowed down to earth with other men's words. See ! My hand trembles with the stress of thought ; Nor can I lift the load of memory. Surely the time hie come to heal; the...

By DYNELEY HUSSEY Music came into the Cinema originally to perform the most menial of tasks. Once the novelty of seeing projected photographs moving, or rather flickering, upon...

Castlereagh. By Sir John Marriott. (Methuen. 15s.) Iv would be difficult to think of any statesman whose reputation has enjoyed so striking a renaissance as that of Castlereagh....

To write the second volume of Smuts' life has been a much more difficult task than to write the first. The first depicted Smuts against the background of the relative...

Joshua Kunitz. (Lawrence and Wishart. 7s. 6d.) How tiresome is the propagandist, and how oddly ineffective I When he pleads a cause, juggles in the abstract with ideas, he is...

Moscow Admits a Critic. By Sir Bernard Pares. (Nelson. 2s. 643.) Tax genesis of this book will be familiar to most readers of The Spectator, since a substantial part of it...

Charles James Fox I: University Press. 15s.) `A GEOLOGIST accustomed to describe the emergence of new formations in terms of ages and eras might well say that :since 1929 all...

Dickson. 6s.) Tuts " Study of the Art of Conversation " is pleasant and thorough, but Mr. Wingfield-Stratford does himself con- siderable disservice by leaving the most...

Six Against the Yard. (Selwyn and Blount. 78. 6d.) The President's Mystery Story. (The Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.) DETECTIVE-FICTION writers, with their gifted amateurs who make...

Bird Alone. By Sean O'Faolain. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) THE achievement of the author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was as much one of demolition as of creation....

By WILLIAM PLOMER Guest of Reality. By Par :Lagerkvist.. Translated by Erik Mesteito'n a ii c):D. W.' Harding. 7s. 6d.) The Birds. By Frank Baker. (Peter Davies. 7s. 6d.)...

MR. J. A. SPENDER, whose experience and moderation are known to all, deals frankly with " The Root of the Mischief " in the Contemporary. There is a new kind of fear hanging...

Current Literature By Major N. N. E. Bray Lieutenant-Colonel Leachman, the subject of this book (Unicorn Press, 12s. 6d.), was one of those men to whom the War gave great...

By Angela Thirkell Written mainly to blackmail her former lovers, the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson turned out to be as light-hearted and vivid a picture of Regency society as...

By Commander R. D. Graham Rough Passage (Blackwood, 7s. 6d.) is Commander Graham's account of his recent voyage in the Emanuel ' from Fal- Mouth to Newfoundland, Labrador and...

Motoring AETR0LT GH there is no possible basis of comparison between these two cars and none is needed, they have one point of resemblance in that they are good examples of the...

Finance THE Report of the Committee on Electricity Distribtition, of which Sir Harry McGowan was Chairman, represents nearly twelve months' work by Sir Harry and his two...

BUSINESS on the Stock Exchange shows little sign of a return of the activity which occupied dealers a few months ago, but the turnover is probably up to the normal for the time...

BY Zmeo 1.4 prize of one guinea well be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week', crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...

The winner of Crossword Puzzle No. 196 is Eustace Ridley, County Hall, S.E. 1.