M INISTERS and Members of Parliament alike have dispersed for a three-months' recess, but it cannot be with completely quiet minds. None of the problems whose menace has been...

difficult to say whether Japanese or Russian troops hold the Changkufeng ridge ; both sides claiming that their men are in possession and have bloodily repulsed their opponents....

whether the decisive move in the Sudeten German question would be made at Prague or at Berlin it would be easier to assess the prospects before Lord Runciman, who arrived in the...

Liberal Summc - School should accept without some demur Lord Samuel ., objective survey of the world situation, and in particular 0: the position and the prospects of the League...

troops across the Ebro a week ago is in a stage which makes pre- diction about its ultimate consequences idle. The Repub- licans have encircled, but have not reduced, the...

goes as far as it is at present safe to go in restoring to the Maltese some say in the government of their island. It is nearly five years since the follies of a Nationalist...

war against the Jews has no obvious explanation except as an imitation of German methods, vehemently as Signor Mussolini may rebut the charge of plagiarism. The number of Jews...

the four members of the Balkan Entente, Rumania and Jugoslavia, Turkey and Greece, marks one further stage in the strange but satisfactory evolution of one of the most dangerous...

sudden action in temporarily declaring wide belts round her frontiers to be Sperrgebiete, where no foreign officer may enter or remain ? The prohibition presumably conceals...

appeared as a friend. He proposed Mr. Chamberlain as leader of the Conservative Party, and his speeches in the House were full of benevolence and help- fulness. Now his attitude...

and its failure would be obviously damaging. The return of Lord Runciman in a few months time, bringing with him a completed agreement, would, equally obviously, be a notable...

orthodox type extolling Mr. Chamberlain as against Lord Baldwin. They feel that there has been a greater sense of realism, especially in the conduct of foreign affairs, since...

ship- owners, and others asked that a committee should be set up to examine the possibility of increasing the amount of coal used by shipping. The committee was presided over by...

promotion announced for officers in the three fighting services seem to have been concerted by the War Office, Admiralty, and Air Ministry together. It is true that the War...

say that the Government occupies quite such a strong position as it did twelve months ago. One or two of the departments—notably the Air Ministry—have had a bad time in the...

T HE visit of the King on Tuesday to what is still (despite the change in the status of its founder) known as the Duke of York's Camp was something far other than a mere...

S H ORTLY after Sir Samuel Hoare was appointed to the Home Office, he reminded the public that he came of Elizabeth Fry's family and could claim a heredi- tary interest in...

I AM not historian enough to know whether the Home Secretary was right when he observed at Southwold on Tuesday that King George VI was the first English sovereign to land in...

By H. V. HODSON I F it is true that the recent report of the Oversea Settlement Board came with a shock of surprise to public opinion in the Empire, that fact is no tribute to...

By .1. L. BRIERLY [Dr. Brierly is Chichele Professor of International Law at Oxford] The belligerent rights which the Plan proposes are limited in important ways, but some...

By RICHARD VEAGH O F all educational institutions, the Public Schools have most responsibility towards their pupils. For they provide, during the .greater part of many...

By D. W. BROGAN E VEN worse as a source of irritation for the American traveller than the infamous badness of American picture postcards, has been the absence of useful guide-...

By ROSE MACAULAY OR those who like ..proverbs, here is a feast. Dr. r Champion has, with the help of learned nationals of twenty-seven races, collected proverbial sayings from...

By IAN MACPHERSON T HE Highland clearances were a 'tragedy from every point of view. They were carried out forcibly, and brutally. They raised enmities which have not yet...

By OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE last thirty years have witnessed a slow but remarkable change in medical opinion all over the world with regard• to infection, disinfection...

By RANJEE G. SHAHANI T O the south of Ranchore lines, not far from the main road, lie a number of habitations belonging to the Megwars, a tribe of artisans and manual labourers...

2ornmonwealth and Foreign BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ATHENS has been celebrating the fourth of August, not only in the capital, but all over Greece, to commemorate the second...

" Kidnapped." At the Gaumont--" I CoVer the Water- front." At the London Pavilion THEY call it Kidnapped : that is what. I resent most as Mr. *arner Baxter, with a gleam of...

THE THEATRE " Geneva." By Bernard Shaw. At the Malvern Festival BESIDE Malvern on the map this week we should write : " Here be lions." . For " a great .number of those who...

West Country—so it seemed to me last week—who has not been to Barnstaple Market. There is no near parallel, so - far as I know, in Eastern England. It is eloquent of a form of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [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...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] S nt,—Dr. R. 0. Adamson in his letter of July 29th seems to believe that any woman, married or unmarried, may be forced to bear a child against...

us take Mr. Rowse's advice and try to think psychologically ; but we must try to found this also upon solid fact. No doubt the Reformation was a struggle " fundamentally for...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—That I am in no sense whatever an expert on China Mr. J. 0. P. Bland must, I feel sure, know as well as I know it my- self, and I can only...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Slit,--At the conclusion of your interesting article you make some sweeping assertions, e.g., " it seems clear that a reduction of cost is...

SPECTATOR] Sin,—At a time when we are assailed from all sides with appeals from the politically oppressed: when we ourselves are spiritually oppressed with accounts of...

Sin,—The now famous Bourne case has had different reactions in different quarters, but the law remains as before. There is no criminal case-law, so far as felonies and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,—As a fellow member with Mr. Roach of the ignorant rank and file may I ask what the " class interest of a small minority " has to do with...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read and re-read Mr. A. H. T. Clarke's letter in your issue of July 22nd, hoping that it might be an instance of over- subtle...

Won einem deutschen Korrespondenten] . NicHT weit von KOln, im Eifelgebirge, erstreckt sich Europas schOnste Autobahn, der Niirburgring. Hier finden alljahrlich die grossen...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Believe me or believe me not, the experience of Mr. Frogmarsh in Mr. Bryan Guinness's story with the above title in last week's Spectator...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE WE are said to bring back from travel only what we carry forth. If this were literally true I should not have learned in Gibraltar what...

The Second Tory Party, 1714-1832. By Keith Grahame Felling. (Macmillan. iss.) WHEN Mr. Felling some twenty years ago first began upon the history of party he opened up a most...

China Only Yesterday. By Innes Jackson. (Faber and Faber. 9s.) Chinese Evergreen. By Victor Purcell. (Michael Joseph. os. 6d.) Japan's Gamble in China. By Freda Utley. (Seeker...

Tufts book is a tiresome and rambling attempt at a biographical study. It fills 584 pages ; at least two-thirds of them are irrelevant to the subject. There is no index (and,...

been most astounded, I think, by posterity's verdict upon him, not by the prodigious mass of opinion about him, the hundred and more editions of him on the shelves of the...

The Problem of Leisure. By H. W. Durant. (Routledge. los. 6d.) THE right use of leisure forms a problem which has lately much occupied the public attention and been brought to...

Once a Commissar. By Vladimir Koudrey. (Hamish Hamilton. 'cis. 6d.) I Look Back Seventy Years. By E. H. Lacon Watson. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. los. 6d.) So What ? By Charles...

By FORREST REID Meat for Mammon. By Mary Mitchell. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) Chosen People. By Seaforth Mackenzie. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) The Larger View. By Benjamin Kaverin. Translated by...

suddenly decided to throw up his job and sell his house, and to exchange security for freedom to write end sail his newly- acquired boat. The readers of his other books will...

CURRENT LITERATURE By Archibald C. Douglas Admiral Douglas (1842-1913) was apparently the first Canadian to obtain a naval cadetship. He was also, when a young commander in...

los. 6d.) begins with a general survey of pre- historic society and then gives more detailed accounts of the extinct Tasmanians, the North American Indians as first known to...

(Dent, 8s. Ed.), the distinguishcd author of the Pasquier Chronicles discusses many of the topics that relate to his pro- fession. M. Duhamel is a publisher as well as an...

The Fortnightly opens with a thoughtful and timely article on " The Boundaries of Flight " by Mr. H. E. Wimperis, who indicates in simple language the limits to speed and height...

Holiday-Wise It seems quite unbelievable in these sophisticated days that anyone should ask anyone else's advice about holiday motor- touring. In a year or so it will hardly be...

WHAT with holidays and a heat wave at home and fresh rumblings in the Far East, who can wonder that Throgmorton Street is a very dull place ? Wall Street is doing its best —and...

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to the investing public was the issue last week of the text of the " Share-Pushing Bill," which is to be debated in Parliament in the autumn. The Bill is drastic, and for that...

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SOLUTION NEXT WEEK The winner of Crossword No. 305 is Mrs. C. R. Harington, 67 Corringham Road, N.W.tr.