T HE first day's debate on the conduct of the war, which is all that can be commented on here since the Prime Minister has not .spoken as we write, did little to assuage public...

HE Prime Minister and the President have met twice before, first in August, 1941, and again in December, 1941. There no doubt in their minds that the over-all picture is more...

B EFORE this month is out Mr. Brendan Bracken will have held the post of Minister of Information for a year. If I anticipate matters a little by referring to his anniversary now...

By STRATEGICUS HE present period is at once the most critical and the most baffling of the war. If we knew even a little about what ppened to the Eighth Army in the middle of...

By V. S SWAM INATHAN p INNING implicit, almost pathetic, faith in the chivalry and generosity of the enemy, believing that the destruction of Britain's will and power to resist...

By WILLIAM PATON A NOTABLE appeal was made from the chair of the Congre- gational Union of England and Wales lately by its President, the Rev. K. L. Parry. He said in the...

By D. W BROGAN* I T is nearly seven months since Pearl Harbour, since Britain and the United States became allies, in fact if not in form, and there is a fair consensus of...

Give me a rail on which to lean And a glass to put to my eye, A lively sea and a sky swept clean And a string of flags up high, And you can have the solid earth Of the land that...

By EDIVVN BEVAN RECENT article, in The Spectator of June 12th, pointed out that one essential part of our dealings with Germany, after victory as been won, will have to be a...

By HAROLD N1COLSON " AN you tell me," I was asked by a German Minister of Education in 1927, "Can you tell me how you people in England organised the week-end movement?" Those...

The Promenade Concerts THE forty-eighth season of Sir Henry Wood's Promenade Concerts began last Saturday at the Albert Hall. A few details of management and personnel are...

"Rain." At the St. Martin's Theatre. Is play remains good theatre. Despite the fact that it is, as a ory, rather too grimly and persistently melodramatic ; despite the act that...

'My Favourite Blonde." At the Plaza. "Broadway." At the Leicester Square. — " Les Gens du Voyage." Revived at Studio One. — Dominion and Army Films. r is Madeline Carroll who...

Dunsheath on "Industry and Education" because it did recognise the need for some other factors in life than technical education, important as that is. He said: "it would be a...

Sta,—In his article on "Post-War Language" published in your issue of June 19th, Professor E. Allison Peers pleads for the establishment of easier linguistic intercourse between...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—Included in the last issue of The Spectator, in "A Spectator's Notebook," is a reference to the office of the Head of the Civil Service, in which you...

Sm,—The article by Dr. Dunsheath in your issue of June 5th will be welcomed by all those people who are engaged in engineering educa- tion, as a valuable contribution to...

Sig,—The point that Mr. Hobson wished to make in his article on Public Corporations, whether sound or not, is not helped by his choice of the old Turnpike Trusts as...

Sta,—You do not want your correspondence columns to be turned into a debating society, so I do not propose to comment in general on Mr. Parry's letter of June xsah. But one...

Sta,—There were in France two large classes of disfranchised adults— the women and the soldiers. The chief reason, I think, for the imposi- tion of this disability was that the...

Sot,—We were very interested in Mr. Brogan's article in your issue on May 1st, particularly as it is unusual to see an Englishman's point of view on this subject. We would,...

SIR, —With regard to the paragraph in your issue of June tzth re Lord Selbome's Imperial Parliament, surely it is obvious that with a changing world something of this nature may...

Sta,—I should like to thank Lord Northbrook for his interesting reply and I agree that his argument about fats and mice living together is probably right. He can, however, get...

JusT before Midsummer Day a field in my neighbourhood was ploughed, after the carrying of a crop of oats—an astonishing example of earliness. Of course the oats, which were...

"Optimism from Cairo," refers to the censor who passed nothing unless it had already appeared in print, but there is one in Cairo who refuses to pass even what has appeared in...

Sut,—Rarely do I disagree with anything that " Janus " writes: when I do, a silent dissent would normally be sufficient. But I cannot, as they say, let it go at that, when he...

SIR,—" There is no question that Mr. Osborn burkes the problem of what to do with the existing wens." This sentence in Miss Jacquetta Hawkes' review of three of my booklets is...

slight but necessary correction to my letter in your issue of Friday, June z6th. I an authoritatively informed that the Guild of All Souls bought perhaps half a dozen advowsons...

Last Train from Berlin. By Howard K. Smith. (Cresset Press. sos. 6d.) AMERICANS in Berlin have written some singularly good books, chief among them, of course, Mr. Shirer's...

Aniende Honorable Bowen's Court. By Elizabeth Bowen. (Longmans. 16s.) " . . my family got their position and drew their power from a situation that shows an inherent wrong. In...

There's a German Just Behind Me. By Clare Hollingworth. (Seeker and Warburg. tos. 6d.) From the Land of the Silent People. By Robert St. John. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) Death at My...

Arabia and the Isles. By Harold Ingrams. (John Murray, as.) MR. HAROLD IN:iliams is one of those lucky colonial servants whose lot has been cast where they fain would have had...

CANON DEANE, having talked about St. Paul on the wireless, found that many listeners wanted more and, in particular, a book. The demand created the supply, and what has been...

The Almond Tree. By Alex Comfort. (Chapman and Hall. 75. 6d.) Peculiar Triumph. By D. C. F. Harding. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) The Fetch. By Joseph Shearing. (Hutchinson. 9s.)...

Tam is a most entertaining account of the development of the talkies, and particularly of the relations between author and script. It is not malice aforethought, for instance,...

at SOLUTION ON JULY 17th -- The winner of Crossword No. 171 is Miss G. H. ROWLAND, Chiddingstone, Sandford Avenue, Church Stretton, Salop.

g uinea will be awarded to the sender of the fi rst correct solution o f this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be received not later...

By CUSTOS ONCE again the steadiness of the stock markets is reminding us that it is no longer possible to get much guidance as to the course of the war from the behaviour of...