air estimates on Tuesday, Sir Archibald Sinclair made an impressive statement on the progress that has been achieved in the air and the strategic part it is to play in the...

W HETHER in the end Finland chooses peace or not, the moderation of the terms offered her by Russia is a good omen for other negotiations with other enemy belligerents when the...

A welcome success has been won by the 14th Army on the Arakan front in Burma. Here the Japanese, laying their plans with great skill, started an offensive early in February...

There is one serious deficiency in the personnel of the medical profession which must not continue under a National Health Service ; it arises from hindrances to the admission...

The political atmosphere would be cleared to the advantage of all the three principal parties if agreement could be reached in regard to procedure at the general election. The...

A heated debate in the French Consultative Assembly at Algiers last Tuesday, in which members insisted that the subjects of dis- cussion should be widened, ended in the...

This country is in some danger of falling behind the United States, where a War Refugee Board has been established by President Roosevelt under a capable director, in its...

The situation in Argentina remains unsatisfactory and obscure. In that unsettled country it is the Army which at present has the last word in appointing governments, and there...

I N the course of last week's debate in the House of Commons on the war and the international situation more than one demand was put forward, very rightly and reasonably, for an...

A WRITER in last week's Spectator quoted Professor F. W. Foerster's story of the German diplomat who, during the last war observ,x1 that inthe event of defeat Germany's policy...

By STRATEGICUS B Y whatever standards we measure the achievement of the Allied air offensive, it is remarkable. It is the most remarkable feature of the present phase of the...

By PROFESSOR J. H. JONES N O one will envy the Minister of Fuel the task upon which he is engaged. Coal-mining presents a more difficult human problem than any other industry...

[The following article, a translation of the major part of a recent editorial in the Polish literary review, "Nowa Polska," represents a point of view which deserves fuller...

By LEONARD JOLLEY T HE English have a habit of doing things by halves. In the years between the two wars they evolved what, with all its faults, was probably the best health...

By THE MAR C HIONESS OF LOTHIAN TT is very disconcerting that at a time in the world's history I when youth is seen at its most inspiring so many articles should be appearing...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE Conservative Party represents a large and valued section of the community : it is unfortunate that so many of its members should be inarticulate. For...

THE leaves are whispering and the poplar Is leaning like a sister mild Over the partisan watchfire Where a mother sits and rocks her child. Close your eyes in slumber deep,...

ANY film which persuades the lay public that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a commendable and sometimes heroic activity is a film which does a socially useful job, and...

AMONG Shakespeare's plays which have maintained a long popularity on the stage there is none more difficult to produce than As You Like It. Troilus and Cressida, of course, is...

Six,—That you should disapprove of my "Penguin," Our Settlement with Germany, was to be expected. But need the real differences between us be aggravated by misinterpretation?...

reflection on Mr. Nicolson's " Marginal Comment " of February 25th? Six,—Might a regular reader of The Spectator make this riming reflection on Mr. Nicolson's " Marginal Comment...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sia,—Mr. Harold Nicolson has expressed with wonderful felicity the painful perplexities which crowd into the minds of thoughtful and educated men when...

Sta,—There is one point which I should like to refer to in connexion with the article, "Mihailovich and Tito," which appeared in your issue of February 25th. The writer, Mr....

briefly to the interesting letter of Mr. Geoffrey Makin in your issue of February 25th, who suggests that Commander Bowles has furnished no evidence in favour of the views he so...

Sta,—The key facts of this problem require to be faced realistically and In as National a spirit as our great Russian allies would employ, not Permitting any interest except the...

Sta,—In his article on "The Next Step in India," Wing Commander Grant-Ferris, M.P., writes: "The emphasis shifted from economics to politics, with the result that up to the...

SIR,—Seldom do I disagree with " Janus," but surely his remarks on E.P.T. might be stronger. The claim that the rise in the cost of living justifies higher wages is largely...

SIR,—A verse of Proverbs seems pertinent to the discussion on the " heartiness " of B.B.C. early morning news reading. It has been quite unknown to anyone I have ever asked,...

A VERY interesting letter has reached me from Rhodesia (where each issue of The Spectator seems to be eagerly awaited). It was accom- panied by three packets containing powder...

Sza,—In Mr. Dennis Bardens' article " Public Relations " he implies that the Society of Individualists is a new political party. I beg your leave to disclaim this statement. The...

SIR,—I have been in opposition against our Polish Government as many of our young people. And first for the Russian-Polish agreement in 1941 which let starving in Russia more as...

Antipodean Nightmare Advance Australia—Where ? By Brian Penton. (Cassell. 8s. 6d.) To a country we don't know we tend to ascribe the qualities we discover in its stray...

Poems, 1937-1942. By David Gascoyne, with Drawings by Graham Sutherland. (Nicholson and Watson. 8s. 6d.) Word Over All. By C. Day Lewis. (Cape. 3s. 6d.) "The three primary...

The English Bible. By Sir Herbert Grierson. (Collins. 4s. 6d.) How so distinguished a scholar as Sir Herbert Grierson should con- tribute to the excellent " Britain in Pictures...

SOMERSET DE CHAIR has published a sequel to The Golden Carpet which he has cal!ed The Silver Crescent. His present book is also published by the Cockerel Press in a limited...

3 and VERNON BARTIErr was warning us about the menace of coon nationalism and of the dictators long before it was fashionable mistrust them. His new warning takes the form of...

A Haunted House and Other Stories. By Virginia Woolf. (Hogarth Press. 7s. 6d.) The Devil In Crystal. By Louis Marlow. (Faber and Faber. 6s.) News for Heaven. By Jeffrey Dell....

for one g uinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, och 14th. Envelopes should be received nor...

to SOLUTION ON MARCH 17th ri' The winner of Crossword No. 258 is Mrs. D. E. Benbow, All Saints' Vicarage, Belvedere,

Ltd., in Association with William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd. as. 6c1.) THE blurb of this booklet shows a striking freedom from political prejudice. In favour of Dr....

By CUSTOS How " thin " markets have become in the sense that they are so inactive that the slightest excess of demand or supply has a dis- proportionate effect on prices is...

handsomely-produced book, which has over a hundred and fifty reproductions, deals with Polish painting from the Middle Ages to the present day. It is written by one of the most...