and outraged public opinion in every country not immediately concerned in the Spanish struggle. Here, again, the main guilt, to all appearance, lies primarily on other than...

E VENTS in Spain—or, more accurately, over Spain and off the Spanish coasts—have taken a more serious turn. The aerial bombardment of Barcelona by insurgent aeroplanes on Sunday...

unrest in Germany amounts to. It is pretty certainly less than some of the more lively Paris papers have suggested, but a synchronisation of certain related or unrelated events...

in the U.S. Navy that will cost some Lt6o,00o,000, and the Vinson Bill in which his demands are embodied, have been a severe shock to Japan, in whose indignation Italy professes...

of Nations Council on Wednesday regarding the war in China was as much as could be expected of the Council in the existing circumstances. It is of no avail to China, for though...

is very far from well in Abyssinia from the Italians' point of view. Messages to many different London papers from Aden, Port Said, Djibuti and other centres, suggest that the...

are curious and illuminating. On the one hand, it is generally admitted that it constitutes as good a programme of action as could be wished ; M. van Zeeland is congratulated on...

not disappointed the expectations raised by his mission ; it is as skilful a dia- gnosis of the world's economic ills, and as good a prescription for their cure, as could be...

now followed up its private circular to the directors and shareholders of private com- panies with an appeal to the general public, in the form of an expensive advertising...

are scarcely any real experts on procedure left in the House. Mr. Wedgwood Berm, with his prodigious memory for precedents, is the one remaining authority and no one has arisen...

House led to the setting-up of a Select Committee, and the House has adopted the second of the Committee's recommendations. This took the form of a new Standing Order governing...

the House of Commons has naturally tended to fall into desuetude. The electors no longer need to crave the intercession of an assembly in which all of them are represented....

amendments to the Population Bill which passed through its committee stage on Tuesday. The purpose of these amendments, as Sir Kingsley Wood said, was to meet the criticisms...

the first day of a resumed session is always an interesting occasion. Members return with renewed enthusiasm, refreshed by a few weeks' absence from the Palace of West- minster...

the black-out as a precautionary measure against air attack it is well that one at last has been fully staged. We have waited for practical experience far longer than Germany or...

T HE debates that have taken place at Geneva this week have brought to a head, though not to a conclusion; discussions which have engaged Ministers and the public in most...

I N June of last year a strike was organised among the workers in the oiffields in Trinidad and the movement rapidly spread to workers on the sugar- plantations and on the water...

This time it is the Windsor Magazine, with an article on the Rt. Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha, with pictures of the Rt. Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha fighting an election, crossing a...

extensive plans Herr Hitler had in hand for the rebuilding of Berlin might be regarded as a pointer towards peace, for you do not spend millions on constructions which you think...

now proclaims itself as containing "All the News and Pictures Fit to Print." It is a laudable limitation. But one that may surely be taken for granted in a British newspaper,...

old jokes. In last week's Spectator Dame Edith Lyttelton, reviewing Hereward Carring - ton's The Psychic World, quoted from it some examples of condemned innovations, among them...

anything the B.B.0 (acting this time in con- junction with one of the American Broadcasting Companies) has put on for a long time. Who picked the Oxford team I don't know, but...

understand the fuss in the British Press about Princess Juliana. Holland's interest in the expected event was in- telligible enough. But Holland, though a country towards which...

T HE abortive threat to Streicher's paper Der Stiirmer may be significant of a good deal. Copies of that vile organ are rarely seen in this country. Its single motif is anti-...

By GUENTHER STEIN T HE Chinese war is having curiously contradictory effects on the army and navy of Japan. In a sense they are being drawn nearer, for they must sink or swim...

By J. R. BELLERBY I J ET us hope that much more may be heard of the "positive patriotism" and the "philosophy of give" which the last Under Thirty contributor advocated in The...

By SIR CHARLES ADDIS A N impenitent believer in a liberal economy may be forgiven for viewing with distrust and even with dismay the growing tendency on the part of the leaders...

By KRISHNA MURTHY D ESPITE appearances, the future of foreign films in India is very uncertain. Recently some of the Anglo- Indian papers expressed their own wishes in their...

By It. F. SCOTT T HERE are various means of gauging the public's literary taste. The lending libtpries, proprietary and free, are in a particularly good position to do it, and...

By A. EMIL DAVIES V HAT much has yet to be done in the way of making our 1 provincial (and some of our metropolitan) hotels more attractive, is only too obvious, and...

By W. L. LAMB T WELVE of us were crowded in a little ante-room. We were members of that select band of pedagogues, known as " short-list " men ; and we were competing for a...

NIGHT arches England, and the winds are still ; Jasmine and honeysuckle steep the air ; Softly the stars that are all Europe's fill Her heaven-wide dark with radiancy fair ;...

so beloved a face ! Raindrops on a daybreak flower— Token of cold midnight's grace— No more radiant are than these. Both of transient darkness tell ; And but one least beam of...

SAFETY FIRST ?-I By EDWARD SHACKLETON [The writer is the son of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the famous Antarctic explorer, and has himself been a member of expeditions in Borneo...

pages, V- t all hooktalls or new,agent!-:, or f p ) 111 THE SPECTATOR, 99 GOWER ST., W.C.I

FASCISM AND TILE MONROE DOCTRINE By WILBUR BURTON [Giving evidence on Monday before the Naval Committee of Congress, Admiral Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations in the United...

"The Hurricane." At the Od n—" The Bad Man of Brim- stone." At the Empire WrrH hey, ho, the wind and the rain—such sm kings and wettings, such blasts and billows, such...

THE THEATRE "Three Sisters." By Anton Tchehov. At the Queen's Theatre Three Sisters was written in 1900 at Yalta in the Crimea. Tchehov was then 40, and already far gone in...

"Horoscope" at the Wells Regular attendants during the past four or five years at the performances of the Wells Ballet must often have noticed that there was among the dancers...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenteni DIE Miinchener wollten schon immer hoch hinaus. Daraum beherbergen sie jetzt auch die erste deutsche Architektur-und...

the Protection of Birds that the famous charge was first brought by Sir George Courthope ; and made good. A little owl was seen to kill the chicks, was seen to bring other...

The inquest into the food of the little owl was carried out with immense thoroughness by the Trust for British Ornitho- logy; and that it is only harmful in the breeding season...

All keepers of golf greens, or for that matter of lawns, must have been aware of the abnormal activity of the earthworms ; and their destruction has been regarded as an almost...

In my garden this week I was reminded of another alien enemy lightheartedly imported into New Zealand. While cutting back some long blackberry shoots I found that they had...

A Hedging Champion The following invitation has reached me, and it is so eloquent of English rural history that its terms are worth putting forth. "I am directed to inform you...

The B.B.C. and the official ornithologist have been com- bining to whitewash the character of that attractive alien, the little owl. It is a pretty and engaging bird and makes a...

January 28th, writing of "Southern Ireland's Hopes" you write "The position of Lord Craigavon, who stands for partition, depends on bitter hostility." Not only is this untrue...

you ask the people of Northern Ireland to give up their British nationality and all the rights and freedoms to which they have been born? Do you know how these De Valera people...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—You Fnglish really do get a rather rough deal from us aliens ! Reading Miss Lindt's article you can hardly have failed to notice that you...

[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 " paragraphs. Signed...

Eva Lindt, we are at bottom a humble people, and we might take her strictures too seriously. So let me quote from Those English, by Kurt von Stuttenheim, who knows our country...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —As a reader of The Spectator, I am continually indebted to your pages for enlightenment, and seldom do I read your first editorial...

SIR, —In your article "An Under Thirty Page" in your issue of January 28th, you extol a vaguely defined Life of Adventure. What is expected of the Under Thirties ? Aged...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Certain ambiguous phrases in the White Paper on "Policy in Palestine" (Cmd. 5634) suggest that the Govern- ment have an open mind upon a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the statement made in your issue of December toth by one of your correspondents (Under Thirty No. i), that gold mining...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your Mr. Janus with his notebook has a fine talent for teasing. At this time of day one hardly enquires from Vic- torian Balliol in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] DEAR am very -deligted to write to you this my note, which is the preliminary to you. I hope that, yo would amaze to see that, "Who is the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On opening the current number of The Spectator, I am often apprehensive that still another aspect of Church doctrine is under discussion ;...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It certainly did "occur to me ", that football pools were legal and my letter was intended to draw attention to the fact that while...

should like to commend • the article on " Chartered Helps-"• in your issue of January 21st, because it certainly shows a wider understanding of the subject than one can find in...

SIR,—I am 76 and have kept house, my mother's and my own, for over 50 years. May I ask how many families there are in England who can afford to pay servants 45s. a week ?—and...

"What Canada Thinks of Britain" Miss (?) Sylvia Stevenson does what many of her predecessors have done, neglects altogether the Maritime Provinces, does not even mention them as...

PAGE Mr. Creevey (E. R. Hodson) .. .. .. 186 Crime and the Community (Lawrence Aihill) . . 187 An Economic History of Modern Britain (R. C. K. Ensor) 187 A History of Europe...

An Economic History of Modern Britain. Vol. III (1887- 1914) with an Epilogue (1914-1929). By J. H. Clapham. (Cambridge University Press. 25s.) Moan than thirty years ago Dr....

MR. PAGE puts the crime bill which the community in this country has to foot each year at 34 or 35 million pounds. We are, it is true, more law-abiding than the citizens of the...

A History of Europe. By the Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher. New and revised edition. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 3 vols. 30s.) MR. Flumes Europe is already a classic, though it is less...

Further Letters of Queen Victoria. Edited by Hector Bolitho. (Thornton Butterworth. 158.) THESE letters of Queen Victoria from the Charlottenburg col- lection, admirably...

MR. POWELL was showered with unanimous and well-merited praises for his film, The Edge of the World, and he has now written a book about the making of it. It must be admitted...

DR. LAWRENCE'S new book, consisting of thirteen periodical articles now revised and enlarged, will be welcomed by scholars and is not without interest for the general reader....

THIS is an admirable book, a work of literary distinction as well as of scholarship, which makes a contribution of first importance to social history. Its theme is the...

England and the Maori Wars. By A. J. Harrop. (London : New Zealand News. 15s.) DR. HARROP'S study of colonial policy at a critical period of Imperial development is a piece of...

7s. 6d.) The Bluff. By Herbert Adams. (Crime Club. 7s. 6d.) A REGRETTABLE tendency has appeared recently in crime fiction. Within the last few months we have seen M. Poirot...

By FORREST REID "THE reputation of Gunnar Gunnarsson in Scandinavia, and especially in Germany, is tremendous and his sales run into hundreds of thousands." To me, I confess,...

BARTER: A STUDY IN THE ECONOMICS OF THE SMALLER GROUP By J. W. Scott " Anything has its justification which provokes thought," says Professor Scott in his preface. On such...

The Contemporary devotes three articles to Germany. Mr. H. P. Green- wood pleads for an Anglo-German Entente, based apparently on the recog- nition of Germany's right to do what...

G. M. Trevelyan After the lapse of fifteen years since the first publication of this deservedly famous work (Longmans, I2S. 6d.), Professor Trevelyan has thought fit to add...

By W. B. AYLING STATISTItS show that there are between four and five million, individual users of photographic apparatus in Great Britain.; Of this number, not more than two...

IT was not to be expected that in its present mood of disillusionment the City would summon up much enthusiasm for the van Zeeland Report. Hats have been raised to this worthy...

see the long-promised Electricity Supply Bill, I think it will have to exercise itself in patience for many weeks. In its final form the Bill will be found to be without most of...

Not slump talk—although this was deprecated—but municipal extravagance and " hot " money were Lord Wardimgton's principal targets at the meeting of Lloyds Bank. It is unpopular...

In these dull days investors have plenty of time for taking stock of the position and, I hope, adjusting their portfolios, however painful this process may be. As a broad...

LLOYDS BANK LIMITED ANOTHER SATISFACTORY YEAR LORD WARDINGTON'S SPEECH THE eightieth ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of Lloyds Bank Limited was held on January...

holding fast to the ordinary shares of the supply companies, and especially of the undertakings, such as County of London, Edmundsons, North-Eastern Electric, and Midland...

at present controls Stock Exchange prices that the news of an adjustment in the Argentine exchange rate should be the signal for an immediate marking down of quotations in all...

EASIER FOREIGN LENDING. SIR JOHN SIMON'S announcement of last Tuesday goes a long way towards relaxing the Treasury control of foreign lending and gives corresponding pleasure...

NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK LIMITED SURVEY OF HOME AFFAIRS MR. COLIN FREDERICK CAMPBELL'S SPEECH TIE annual general meeting of the shareholders of the National Provincial Bank,...

The Union Bank of Australia held its centenary meeting this week in fortunate circumstances. The chairman, Sir John H. Davidson, was able to describe the conditions of Australia...

The failure of rubber and of rubber shares to respond to the cut in the quota is not contrary to well-informed expectations. When it was announced last week that the...

The speeches of the chairmen of the District Bank and of Williams Deacon's Bank always command close attention. As both these banks have their headquarters in Manchester, the...

The Gas Light and Coke Company's report shows that the net revenue for 1937 declined by £41,843, and in order to maintain the dividend of £5 I2S. per cent, for the year on the...

The British South Africa Company raised its gross income by £262,700 to £960,090 in the year ended September 30th. Its net profit after providing for taxation was £165,136...

UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED THE CENTENARY YEAR THE annual general meeting of the Union Bank of Australia Limited, was held on January 31st, at 71 Cornhill, London, E.C....

The results which are now coming forward from leading cotton spinning companies reflect the wider margins and heavier order books which were the general experience over most of...

BY ZENO (A prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be...

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