N EWS, or speculation, about the coming invasion of Europe comes naturally from Axis, not Allied, sources. In Italy the crisis is considered imminent, which means apparently...

Various descriptions, such as the creation of an Inner Cabinet, or a new War Cabinet, or the appointment of an Assistant-President, have been applied to President Roosevelt's...

Such information as is available about the earlier meetings between General Giraud and his nominees and General de Gaulle and his gives little ground for optimism. Personal...

- Unauthorised programmes for peace are getting thick on the ground. The latest comes from Mr. Sumner Welles, and its author- ship gives it by no means negligible weight. The...

Coal production is causing anxiety in different ways both in Britain and in America. Major Lloyd George, replying to a supplementary question in the House of Commons on Tuesday...

Dr. Benes raised an interesting psychological question when he told the American Frien& of Czechoslovakia that Czechs see certain cracks in the Nazi machine arising from the...

In spite of the slightly hostile attitude adopted by the officials of the Food Conference at Hot Springs towards the Press enough is known about the work of the conference to...

It is fortunate that the Trades Union Congress does not meet till September. There is therefore three months in which the situa- tion created by the declared intention of the...

U NDERLYING the question of the future of civil aviation are certain fundamental facts. One, overriding all others, is that till the war is over the demands of military aviation...

B Y a strange caprice of fate, Marquis Merry del Val, the classical Ambassador of the Spanish Monarchy in London during the last war, has died amidst the blessings of the...

By STRATEGICUS G ENERAL DIETMAR has delivered a discourse upon strategy which must be taken into account. He says, in effect, that the Axis Powers need not attack but the...

By DR. REINHOLD NIEBUHR* S TALIN'S dissolution of the Comintern, and the explanations he has given of his reasons for his action, mark a sort of final chapter in the history of...

By A. G. TANSLEY VAR-REACHING changes hi the utilisation of the land of Britain l' will be inevitable in the post-war period of reconstruction. When we consider the demands of...

By COBBETT WILKES A GENERAL Election is to be held in Eire on June 22nd. No one expects that its result will change the present situation materially, least of all that it will...

CAGED in my flesh, like a wild beast, Can you not perceive Paradise within my breast Adam, Tree, and Eve? Beyond the bars you leer and prod, Sketch, note and satisfy...

By REV. E. E. A. HERIZ-SMITH I F you were to pay a visit to the City Hotel in Buenos Aires one evening in any April you would find a large dinner-party being held, at which...

- By HAROLD NICOLSON • I N the House of Commons, last week, Mr. Stokes, with his usual warm-hearted pugnacity, intervened at question-time to draw attention to the "...

THE CINEMA ONE of Russia's greatest film-makers, Alexander Dovzhenko, re- cently addressed the following appeal to members of his profession all over the world: " Film workers,...

" Shadow ilEnd Substance." At the Duke of York's Theatre.- " The Imaginary Invalid." At the Westminster. ON May 14th I reviewed here another play, The Old Foolishness, also by...

MUSIC THE visit of the B.B.C. Orchestra to London for a series of three concerts has served as a useful reminder of what orchestral playing can be, even though in the Albert...

for a " Healthy agriculture," I feel that many of the views expressed in an artiEle appear- ing under this heading in your issue of May 21st should not"be allowed so go...

who wouldn't infinitely prefer extinction under the hammer of a Manchester economist to the death by a thousand patronages so cheerfully offered by Mr. Walter Worcester in your...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—I have seen Lord Perth's letter in your issue of May 28th. Likewise, " in the interests of historical accuracy," it calls for more detailed comment...

Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean? A distinguished Catholic admiral, Sir Henry Harwood, K.C.B., &c., of ' Graf Spec' fame, has held the latter command (so near the...

Stir,—'The Allies are actively engaged* in softening the already rather gabby underbelly of the Axis ; they are doing it by an aerial bombard- ment which gives the Italians a...

Sts,—Twice on the front page of your issue of May 28th, when speaking of the forthcoming defeat of our enemies, you refer to " the armistice." Surely this terminology is, in...

Snt,—Your correspondents on this topic seem to shy at mentioning the main point, viz., the Chancellor's ecclesiastical patronage. Of the men who have been Lord Chancellors...

a,—I appreciate the footnote to my letter on the Trades Disputes Act hich you .printed in your issue of May 21st. I am sorry that my ntention cannot be admitted. If the reasons...

A LANDOWNER in Shakespeare's country possesses a small rookery in which he takes a certain pleasure, as well he might, for " the black republic of the trees" is always worth...

Sut,—I agree entirely with your correspondent, Peter Matthews, about the tone of recent B.B.C. broadcasts of air raids over enemy countries. For Heaven's sake let us keep our...

SIR—Mr. Falcom's letter conveys the impression most successfully that he has little patience with those he would no doubt disdainfully dismiss as tinkerers. It is typical that...

SIR,—In his letter published in The Spectator of May zt st, Dr. Einzig scolds me for having ventured to accuse his Japanese New Order in Asia of not laying enough emphasis on...

SIR,—Mr. Robert Aitken's statement that " the State claimed the right to compel Presbyteries to ordain, if necessary, and to induct, the presentees of lay patrons " ignores the...

" ORIGINALLY published in 1938 this book is reprinted in the Inter- national Library of Sociology because of its importance in relation to problems of reconstruction today." So...

Vital Historians British Historians. By E. L. Woodward. (Collins. 45. 6d.) "A CERTAIN quietness of mind ; a strong visual imagination; a clear style not without poetic quality...

Science, Religion and the Future. By Dr. Charles E. Raven. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d.) To make the right association of faith in God with our knowledge of the world...

COMING at the end of a long line of Amerimn correspondents who have turned their experiences of Germany during the war into books, Mr. Lochner, with longer experience than any...

Athene Palace. By R. G. Waldeck. (Constable. 95.) THIS is a spicy and entertaining book, but it must be taken with many grains of salt. There is already something puzzling in...

Winter's Tales. By Karen Blixen. (Putnam. 13s. 6d.) Tales from Two Pockets. By Karel Capek. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) In the Years of Our Lord. By Manuel Komroff. (Chapman and...

one gumea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct wlauon of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, pane 1 5/k. Envelopes should be received...

The winner of Crossword No. 219 is Miss C. T. CUMBERBIRCH, Red oof Cottage, Goathland, Yorks.

of Nine Ghosts consider it a worthy successor t Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The author is Dean of Wells, an most of the tales have the same background and atmosphere that w...

Golf, My Life's Work. By J. H. Taylor. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) No man arrives at the position of being a first-class professional at any game without having remarkable qualities, but...

• By CUSTOS Wrrn Wings for Victory Weeks achieving resounding successes u and down the country, it is small wonder, in present circumstances that there is precious little...