TOPICS OF THE DAY. URIC ULT 11 E 180 2/ Agriculture an Anniversary and Some Comments ..1005 Air Force Control .. 155 Air, Friendship by .. 661 America and the League in 1930...

India A CROP of rumours recently sprouted in Simla. Such rumours, coming from a few persons who are as a rule well informed and who work near the centre of authority, were...

On Monday the military evacuation of the Rhineland was completed. As a result of the steady withdrawals of French and Belgian soldiers during the past few months only a few...

in determining the nature of the Bill may be the recommendations of the Conference itself. Let us not, however, play with the fancy that the Conference will be able to convince...

the Government of India on Monday admits that the Simon Report has had " an unfavourable reception from rractically all Indian quarters." For the first time for several weeks,...

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The Treaty which will govern the relations of Great Britain and Iraq as soon as Iraq becomes a member of the League has been completed at Baghdad. All the con- ditions mentioned...

The announcement by the Italian Government last Saturday of an increased military expenditure will hardly improve the strained relations between - Paris and Rome. Out of a...

he the conclusion of the younger Radicals in France, who are likely before long to join with Socialists in presenting an up-to-date foreign policy. M. Jacques Kayser, for...

active this week, meeting in Congress at the Quai d'Orsay. M. Briand, Honorary President, is not attending, but there are representatives of fourteen countries, including Great...

given here to Prince and Princess Takamatsu of Japan is proof, if any be needed, that the denunciation of the Anglo- Ja panese Treaty did nothing to impair Anglo-Japanese good...

Messages from. Spain make it clear that the fall of the peseta to 44 to the is causing greater confusion than has been known for several years. The fall itself may be due to the...

On Thursday, June 26th, the millenary of the Parlia- ment of Iceland—the oldest Parliament in the world— was celebrated. The battleship ' Rodney,' which con- veyed Lord Newton,...

expert criticism of our most distinguished sailors was trans- Paiently sincere. It can be matched by much similar criticism, with a precisely contrary force, from the naval...

The great Australian victory in the second Ted. Match has increased the excitement with which the remaining matches are awaited. The idea that a perfect wicket, made dull...

followed the resignation of Dr. Sites, the Bolivian President, have culminated in a coup d'etat. The revolution against Dr. Siks' attempted dictatorship was characteristically...

In the House of Lords on Tuesday Lord Beatty and Lord Jellicoe opened all their guns on the Naval Treaty. Lord Beatty could not understand how the Admiralty had consented to...

Lord Rothermere by the publication of article: and numerous letters in the Daily Mail has been defending his doctrine that every prospective Prime Minister at a General Election...

on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1031 ; on Wednesday week, 102 Il ; a year ago, 100A- ; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 901; On Wednesday...

Shettleston division of Glasgow was declared on Friday, June 27th, as follows : Mr. J. McGovern (Lab.) .. .. 10,699 Mr. W. P. Templeton (U.) .. .. 10,303 Mr. J. M. McNicol...

V 1HE Report of the Economic Committee of the -I- Trades Union Congress on the economic grouping of the world is undoubtedly Protective in tendency. It declares that a policy of...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDA Y or EACR WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been semi and receipt reference number should be quoted.

T AST week we con fi ned our attention to considering - 1 - 4 the second volume of the Simon Report. Readers of the Spectator will recall that we have frequently urged that...

THE Liberal party, hoping to make sonic capital out Of Conservative dissensions by drawing further public attention to them, put down the Dominions Office vote for Thursday of...

[On Monday. June 30th. the Allied occupation of German territory came to an end. What this liquidation of the War in eleven years may mean for the future of Europe is...

T HE problem of how to make industry pay is becoming an acute one in these times, and anything which is likely or even possible to make salesmanship an easier task or to add to...

H ERE is Baby Week again ; and a delightful discovery which bears directly and happily upon the prevention of maternal mortality, one of the most tragic facts of modern...

T HE myth of the Middle West has no setting of " wine- dark dark seas," nor, indeed, has it any wine-like waters but forbidden ones. Here " Gorgons, Hydras and Chimeras dire "...

A DUTIFUL peregrination of picture shows at times, and often at frequent times, induces a state of mind which is little more than a kindly and benevolent blank. So many exhibi-...

by Orion under the general title of " Pleiades " will appear once a fortnight instead of once a week. hi our issue dated July 12th Orion will write "On Yellow in Nature."

A LETTER FROM BOMBAY. [To the Editor of the Su•v:eT:oeoa.j Sin,— Nothing that any Congressman has said has carried any conviction, to my mind, of the justice or propriety of...

THE " SPECTATOR," JULY 3ao, 1830. THE NUMBER OF LETTERS. So great was the number of letters put into the General Post- office on Saturday (nearly 30,000), that the clerks were...

WAIT, Time, wait.. . Time, wait a while ; It will be too late To see her smile If you rush along So fast as this, Too late to hear her song Or know her kiss. Linger but a...

Sin,—The Architectural Review certainly deserves the award of Oxford's annual biscuit for its new title for the University —" Cowley's Quartier Latin. - For, somehow or...

The Round Table Conference The purpose of this page is to ventilate that moderate Indian opinion which, recognizing all the difficulties, yet believes in the continued...

In many rather unexpected directions appear symptoms of the zeal for preserving rural England. There has been an outcrop of novels and plays, which might almost have been...

A GUILD OF BRIDGE-BUILDERS. It is sometimes said that Herefordshire is behind the times, and on behalf of that lovely county I should like first, to put it on record that it...

much, but a certain number suffer from fungoid growths that need more special investigation than they have received. They are said to be less sensitive to pollution than the...

but does not, dignify itself by the name of a Guild of Masons. A company of local masons has been got together, and assured constant work of this kind. They have become so...

Farmers in many districts especially in East Anglia have been angered by an onslaught on sugar-beet and the form of its encouragement. The crop has saved a great number of...

It is the time of roses ; and though some lament the many plagues of the year roses are flowering supremely. Novelties are as many as ever ; but wherever I go I find an...

streams in Hertfordshire which have quite defeated modern science. One of them, not long ago a very line trout stream—and the brown trout is a sort of emblem of purity —is...

You cannot do any work in rural England without unearthing evidence of historic continuity. In reconditioning one old Herefordshire bridge was found a bronze token of the date...

little of your space in order to express an opinion on the fundamental faults in Britain's dealings with India ? In my view, these faults arc two—one official out one private....

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Izzat is what India really wants. She wants prestige, position in the world, status. That is why she seized so...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] San,—To an old Free Trader the present economic controversy raises many problems of absorbing interest, which are, how- ever, extremely...

Stn,- The Commission's recommendations are in the main Very sound. They have asserted the supremacy of the British Parlianwnt, and its intention to maintain peace and order in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Might I be permitted as an unbiassed outsider to express an opinion on the issued raised by the letter of Lord Rothermere to Mr. P. J. H....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,– On one essential point, the defence of India, you have misread the proposals of the Simon Commission. They con- template the permanent...

[To the Editor of the Srxervrou.] Sia,—The bold advertisement of the Anglo-Catholic Congress in the Church and Empire Supplement to the Times must, instinctively, raise some...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— I was much interested to read the article by the Rev. W. F. France which appeared in your issue of June 21st regarding the Church in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stu,—It is interesting to see how academic theories fare when they are up against the hard facts of actual experience. How would Mrs....

GREAT BRITAIN AND INDIA May I correct one point in my former article ? The amenities between the two races have undoubtedly improved in certain ways in the Civil Services,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Censors during the War would often permit the use of the words Scottish, Welsh or English, but nothing more precise. Whenever my...

Perfervid Scot I dislike when my countrymen write, as "Thistle" does in your issue of 21st June, to point out the obvious. There is a certain lack of dignity in his criticism...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—Readers of the Spectator will greatly rejoice at the news Sir Robert Gower was able to impart to the annual meeting of the R.S.P.C.A.,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—With all respect to your answers to Miss Crawford's questions last week, I beg to reject your far-fetched and unconvincing explanation of...

writers who have freed themselves from the text-book conventions and done some independent thinking. This characteristic is well shown in The King's Majesty (Faber, (is.), which...

relics of the great monastic houses are still en- shrined in the public and endowed schools which now occupy their sites ; and how great a contribution these can make to our...

was a thriving port, but with the discovery of America and the opening of the trade with the East Indies she became second only to London. Her great days are recalled in...

making and charmingly-written study of the Mentality of Apes. In a new book, Gestalt Psychology (G. Bell, 15s.), he seeks to give a more general application to the views he...

Lunesdale in Bygone Days (Titus Wilson and Son, Kendal, 21s.) consists of 500 copies only, fifty or which are bound in leather (two guineas) and 450 in cloth (one guinea). Mr....

the inner ring of initiates who not only take pride in their craft but have a fellowship with the animal world. He was a hunter-naturalist, to whose experiences and observations...

careful Story of Lambeth Palace (Constable, 15s.) should find many readers. It has an attractive preface by the late Archbishop, who encouraged the author to write the book. The...

The Friend of Shelley : A Memoir of Edward John Trelawny. IT is a matter for wonder that in this age of intensive dusting in the corners of the room of Time, nobody has picked...

Tii F British flag has floated over the colony of Hong Kong ever since 1841. It is the one bit of the British Empire in the whole of Far Cathay. Out of its total population of...

THOSE who arc sensitive to the subtle movements of the spirit must have observed during the last few years a trend towards the recovery of that sense of mystery and t ranscend-...

Ir is accepted by the author of this thesis, as also other authorities, with some show of probability given the contem. porary evidence, that one George Sabel or Save!, born not...

Hindenburg. By F. A. N'oigt and Margaret Goldsmith. (Faber and Faber. 12s. &I.) The Biography of President von Hindenburg. By A. M. K. Watson. (Albert E. Marriott. 10s. 81.)...

Nuraghi. Ily Douglas Goldring. (Harrap. 15s.) Icr.Latin is not quite so unknown as Mrs. Chipman thinks, for its excellent, though somewhat expensive, sAhnon-lishing and the fact...

On the Light Side 1957. By Hamish Blair. (Blackwood. 7s. 6d.) THE sort of novel that suits a holiday mood is not so easy to find in these days. It must be entertaining, it...

6d.)—Those who are tired of Scotland Yard, amateur sleuths and all the machinery of modern murder stories will find Mr. Milbrook's old-fashioned mystery story a pleasantehange....

Ora weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to J. Trevor, " Hollies," Thorney Lane, Iver, Bucks, for the following :-...

6d.)—This is a crime story of the good old- fashioned style—the author is even careless enough to refer to the novel appearance of an ordinary bobbed head, which suggests that...

6d.)—This is one of the Methuen Clue Stories and, though it is not so well written as some of the others, both the story and the characterization are worthy of notice. The story...

have already, through countless other War- books and at first-hand, learned so much of staff inefficiency, of square pegs in round holes, of waste, bad organization, misfit...

A. O'Brien (George Allen and 7s. 6d.), published also by Tauchnitz, and similar in size to the ordinary Tauchnitz edition, in a red cloth binding, are the best small Russian...

[The writer of this article has had special opportunities of studying Spanish painting. He was the author of The Art of Anglada, published by The Leicester Galleries last...

(Continued from page 19.) A DELIGHTFUL and unusual book is Goya : An Impression of Spain, by Lord Derwent [G. H. Johnstone] (Methuen. 10s. 64.). No visitor to the Prado but has...

great in both variety and number, moral as well as Material." From a fraternity of workers who built the great cathedrals of Europe, Freemasonry to-day has passed into a...

these days, when there is so much "about it and about," a collection of studies of living poets may be looked upon with forgivable suspicion. We are flooded with too much...

3s. 6d.)—When reviewing the first edition of this little book we wrote: "Michael Fielding is the pseud- onym of an experienced medical man whose object is to supply...

The Past Half-Year DURING the time that I have contributed articles of Finance to the Spectator I have usually devoted an article in the first number of each year to a survey...

DURING the last few years the art collecting public have turned their- attention to the eighteenth cen- tury Glass Pictures as a comparatively inexpensive article of a period...

The recent meeting of the Hudson's Bay Company was of particular interest by reason of the fact that some strong criticism was expressed by Mr. Nordon and some other share-...

QUIET MARKETS. THE stock markets are beginning to feel the effect of the approaching height of the holiday season. When business is brisk it is no unusual experience for...

Ostensibly, Mr. Nordon's criticism of the conduct of the Hudson's Bay Company seems to be based upon the fact that earning power has not sufficiently expanded, especially having...

After an association with the London Discount Market, extending over forty-two years, Mr. C. S. Langley, Deputy Manager of the Union Discount Company of London, has retired as...