W ITH the Prime Minister saying less than could be desired in his public speeches about international organisation after the war, the references to that subject by the Foreign...

W HATEVER may be its ultimate fate, Sir William Beveridge's Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services is a great State document. With spaciousness of outlook it combines...

T HE appointment of a new Viceroy of India is evidently to be expected almost at once. The expectation seems to be that the choice will fall on Lord Cranborne, and there will be...

By STRATEGICUS HE Prime Minister on Sunday night touched on the nature of the present problem of the Allies. It is impossible to ignore fact that we have entered a new phase...

By PIERRE MAILLAUD T N the eyes of the world the Epic of Toulon seems to have I eclipsed a very important document which reveals as much of the French frame of mind as this tale...

By SIR CHARLES BRESSEY The challenge of the exhibition has been successful, and the trumpets of laissez-faire have been vigorously sounded by champions on the other side, as one...

By KURT HAHN (Headmaster of Gordonstoun School) I am convinced we have no right to ignore the warning on the subject of physical education contained in the six findings...

By PROFESSOR HERMANN LEVY Yet from a social point of view all this is of secondary importance. Indeed, its social incidence may be said to be confined to the fact that the...

By HAROLD NICOLSON O F all the changes which I have witnessed in the last quarter of a century, of all the alterations in material and spiritual values which those twenty-five...

Edward Burra. At the Redfern Gallery. EDWARD BOMA'S pictures have many of the qualities of eighteenth- century oratory. They are impressive in scale, hold the attention, are...

" Inside Fighting Russia" and " The Pied Piper." At the Odeon. —" Inside Fighting China." At the London Pavilion.—" The Magic Fish." At the Tatler. " Talk of the Town." At the...

" The Way of the World." At the Mercury Theatre.--" Henry IV, Part II." At the Westminster.—" Mixed Relations." At the Ambassadors. IT was the Phoenix Society that, after the...

SIR,—Your correspondent Sir Watford Selby, in expressing his agreement with the point in your recent article with regard to the nations of Central Europe, states that "...

SIR,—In reply to the Editorial Note at the foot of my letter in your last issue: I was the person who handed the cup to the late Dr. Sibley and who made the presentation speech...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—That the clergy and the laity regard Christianity from different points of view is no new discovery. It is inevitable, and advantageous, that they...

and Christian ethics. Christian ethics must mean the rules for conduct laid down by Christ, summed up in the Commandments to love God and love our neighbour. How are people to...

Sm,—I have read with interest the article in your issue of November 13th by Julian Huxley entitled " Celtic Twilight." Why should there be such grovelling to Eire? Has she not...

the fact that there is an agreed syllabus between the Church of England and the Free Churches. But the point is, not the imparting of religious know- ledge, but the translation...

SIR,—Attention has already been drawn in these columns to the report of the trial of twenty men at the Newport Assizes for homosexual offences. During the hearing it was...

SIR,—We are told in the Press that the House of Commons announces that the Lord Chancellor is consulting the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, and the President of...

SIR,—Now that the subject of the County Badge Scheme has once more become the object of discussion, I hope I may be excused for offering these views which are those of a boy...

SIR,—I was astonished and shocked by your paragraph in " Notes of the Week," November 13th, welcoming the Regulation 33b on venereal disease, and I was further surprised that in...

SIR,—It would have amused Quintus Horatius Flaccus to know that Hitler had been making two of the three journeys referred to in Ode 22, Book 1, simultaneously, the crossing of...

SIR,—With regard to the talk by the President of the Board of Education, broadcast on November 24th, we, as members of the staff of a large secondary school, beg to register a...

SIR,—In a recent number, Sir W. Beach Thomas " dares to ask " whether we desire the total extinction of the rabbit. The answer from the Minister of Agriculture, who ought to...

IN the shire of Hertford, which has been singularly successful (thanks chiefly to some large landowners) in keeping its rural charms, some residents are distressed that it is to...

Sta,—A few weeks ago Sir William Beach Thomas wrote in The Spectator that the fruit of Pyrus Japonica made very good jelly. Having a large crop of fruit on our shrubs this...

SIR,—Mr. Tangye probably deemed it kinder not to quote Lin Yutang in support of his statement that the average Britisher who has spent a lifetime in China would not be we:corned...

Physics and Philosophy. By Sir James Jeans. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.) SIR JAMES JEANS'S reputation as a lucid expositor of physical ideas will not be lowered by his...

Climate and Destiny Climate and the Energy of Nations. By S. F. Markham, M.D. (Oxford University Press. tog. 6d.) HIPPOCRATES — Or rather some member of his school—wrote a...

Salsette Discovers America. By Jules Romains. Translated from the French with an Introduction by Lewis Galantiere. (Hutchinson. 75. 6d.) "THE reader will open Salsette in the...

Faber. 8s. 6d.) THE average war book written by a serving combatant tends all too often towards the inarticulate or the two-dimensional. How well we know them now—the modest...

Log Book. By Frank Laskier. (George Allen and Unwin. ss.) IT is a national habit to take the Royal Navy for granted, and to praise the fine work of the Merchant Navy is the...

The winner of Crossword No. 393 is Miss M. FORRESTER, 63, Cluny Gardens, Edinburgh.

for one 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. Envelopes should be received not...

Ah Well. By Jack B. Yeats. (Routledge. 6s.) The Lads of the Village. By Hugh P. McGraw. (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6d.) THE poor dear 'thirties are treated with harsh impatience by...

By CUSTOS • APART from a further fall in insurance shares, stock markets have taken the Beveridge plan remarkably well. Not that the City is completely satisfied with the...