that the League of Nations Assembly should be summoned at an earlydate to consider the whole question of sanctions is not yet clear. There is no doubt that the decision on...

Dr. Schuschnigg's sudden flight to Viareggio after a Cabinet meeting on Monday is so far without any sufficient explanation, but when an invalid visits his doctor it is usually...

order is being restored, the situation in Palestine remains dangerous and incalculable. Sporadic shooting and am- bushes continue and the strike of the Arab municipalities has...

Archdeacon, the one from the pulpit in Westminster Abbey, the other in a letter to The Times, have been drawing attention to the relations between the British Empire and the...

instruc- tive light on the spirit in which Lord Linlithgow is taking up his responsibilities as Viceroy. He. is. it appears, preparing to launch a national campaign to improve...

the new Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, will have to make is regarding the proposal to prohibit land-holding by natives in the highlands of Kenya, and it is fortunate that...

The British and American navies are linked in another connexion. Lord Stanley's " proof " of the necessity of the large battleship of today in the recent debate on the naval...

invalidating the State of New York's minimum-wage law for -women and children gives even Republicans reasons for desiring a reform of the Constitution. Previous findings of the...

Friday on the Tangku- Tientsin railway was so ominously like other " incidents" which have preceded Japanese aggression that it caused considerable alarm, which fortunately...

a moment when the failure of the League of Nations to check aggression in Abyssinia has had so depressing an effect on believers in the League ideal an organisation like the...

the first-fruits of Lord Winterton's famous house- party. Three of the guests, Sir Robert Horne. Sir Edward Grigg and Mr. Churchill, came into action. They all made effective...

naval expenditure returned to the charge that is now made by every Front Bench Labour speaker in defence debates that the armament expenditure bears no relation to the...

bitterly controversial question that will face the House • of Commons after the Whitsuntide recess will be the new unemployment regulations. Mr. Winston Churchill has already...

Times on the Scout movement in Africa makes some interesting com- ments on the difficulties it has met with owing to racial prejudice in the Union. The Chief Scout writes with...

'Queen Mary' would .make no attempt on the record on her maiden voyage perhaps increased the excitement when she almost beat it in spite of herself. If she did not actually...

THE findings of what may conveniently be termed the Budget Tribunal have been received with some surprise and some uneasiness ; with surprise, because it had been generally ass...

T HE first Socialist Government of France is now in power. It would be a disaster both for Europe and for France if it failed, but unfortunately that is no reason for believing...

Tribunal's work which I have not seen mentioned, though it certainly should be. The tribunal has (lone its work to universal admiration, and no one will wish to discriminate...

By SOMERSET DE CHAIR, M.P. IN America everyone has written a play. Even the bell-hops have written plays. In England it would almost seem as if everyone has written or at least...

By HAROLD NICOLSON, M.P. M R. DELISLE BURNS, in a letter published in last week's Spectator, expressed the view of many perplexed millions. " In the present situation," he...

By F. YEATS-BROWN [This is the sixth of a series of articles which Mr. Yeats-Brown has been specially commissioned by " The Spectator" to write on contemporary India. The...

By A. D. WILSON A RECENT article in The Times on the birth of publi- city showed the humble origins of organised adver- tisement, and provoked wonder and regret at the growth...

By H. E. DEGRAS A CONVICT on ticket-of-leave has reason to be suspicious of policemen. Consequently my heart behaved very erratically this afternoon when I saw a helmeted...

By BARBARA WORSLEY-GOUGH I T must be painful to be a meteorologist—or, at any rate, to be good at this sinister job. No great sufferings, I suppose, are endured by the mediocre...

Commonwealth and Foreign [To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] whole procedure of choosing and instructing delegates for the Republican Convention at Cleveland on . June 9th has...

Communication [To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—The May term in Cambridge is one of concentration. The energy of the undergraduate, usually scattered mer a vast field,...

times when one cannot help brooding with acute distress on the cheap silly inter- national pictures exported under that label. The Marriage of Corbal is a fairly harmless...

"Don Giovanni." At Glyndebourne Mn. JOHN CHRISTIE has set the seal upon his enterprise at Glyndebourne by the production of Don Giovanni. His Mozart repertory is now for...

[D'un correspondant parisien.] L'IN-rEinaoxE ministeriel ne prendra fin qu'avec la publication de eette chronique. Au moment de l'ecrire deux questions restent done entieres :...

Ladislas Peni ArrEE my regular complaints about the dead end to which abstraction has brought painting, it is a consolation to be able to point to a particular artist who has...

.1 notify TIIE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY or E.ACII WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

A Poisoning Campaign "They love not poison who do poison need " ; but a great number of people, including a Government Department, are steeling their hearts, and organising the...

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"...

Northern Ireland bears more than some superficial resemblance to what is already in force on the other side of the Border, which may lead to sonic permanent system of a " Droit...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I think this article puts the whole situation in Ulster in a most unfair and one-sided light. Does any really sane man expect Ulster and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Italo-Abyssinian campaign has made it cleat that inequality in armaments may be classed among the contributory causes of war....

that in suggesting in my Parliamentary notes that the Labour Party Should agree to support rearmament in return for a drastic reconstruction of the Distressed Areas I am asking...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Leyton Richards' able letter seems to me to be based on the assumption that our Government has the power of choosing between (1)...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your Oxford Correspondent, in your issue of last week, makes some reflections on the condition of sociological studies in Oxford. He is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent,. Mr. Israel Cohen, failing to disprove the dangers threatening the Arabs of Palestine as a result of Jewish...

Press of recurring trouble, strikes, and unrest in Palestine ; of the reconsideration in Geneva of the problems involved ; of a further Royal Commission ; of an appeal to...

] Sia,—I am sorry that Mr. Jenkins has ignored my request that he would give some indication of the source of the amazing statements which he chooses to make from time to time...

Sin,—Lord Dunsany's analysis of the world today is witty, but superficial. "The machine" (he says) "is master " : and "the fault lies in our civilisation which has been growing...

THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There was a time within the memory of some when Walt Whitman's ringing words were full of happy significance and the only vexation was the " scorching "...

Si a letter from Fares Effendi Menaw, appearing in your issue of May 1st, it is stated 'with reference to Islam that ". in that religion the relation between man and God is that...

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Tins is a brilliantly . -written, intensely interestin g . book by a man who is sufficiently master of his subject to be at play with it. The fact that I a g ree very rarely...

No country has been more successful with its post-crisis monetary policy than Sw e den. And no man has had more influence on that policy than Professor Gusta v Cassel. It is...

Social Security in the United States : Analysis and Appraisal of the Federal Social Security Act. By Paul H. Douglas. (McGraw - Hill. 15s.) THESE books are each excellent of...

The Literary Career of Sir Joshua Reynolds. By F. W. Bilks. (Cambridge. 15s.) REYNOLDS is one of those rare artists who cannot be judged only on their pictorial output. There...

France Today. By Maurice Thorez. (Gollanez. 5s.) THERE can be little doubt," writes M. Maurice Thorez, who is the general secretary of the Communist Party of France, "that...

by R. R. Bellamy. (Cape. is. 6d.) A Sailor's Log IT is scarcely too much to say that this book would have been delightful for its spelling alone. There is a pleasure in...

As Time Went On. By Ethel Smyth. (Longmana. 15s.) Ix her professional life, Dame Ethel Smyth has been one of the most long-suffering and unrewarded among pioneers. When the...

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By Edmund Vale We have always been fond of our own - islands. But until recently this affection has been so inarticulate; - so inexplicit, that we have allowed the beauty of...

By G. M. Boumphrey Under the general editorship of Mr. G. M. Botimphrey, who himself directed and took part in each of the talks, the discussions recently broadcast on The...

By Sidney M. Berry This little book (Independent Press, 3s. 6d.), by one of the most eminent preachers of the day, consists of lectures recently given in Scotland. It is...

By Walter Howarth In a somewhat too richly allusive essay (Chapman and Hall, Gs.), Mr. Walter Howarth discusses the aims and principles by which the Junior Instruction Centre...

Current Literature By A. W. Clapham Mr. A. W. Clapham has contributed the second volume to the series of Handbooks of Art History which tire being published by the Oxford...

knows Wiltshire the frontispiece of Mr. Ormsby-Gore's second volume of the Illustrated Regional Guide to Ancient Monuments, dealing with Southern England (H.M. Stationery...

No one was better qualified than M. Petit-Dutaillis to write The Feudal Monarchy in France and England from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century, the latest volume of Messrs....

THE Rinind *Table, disenssing the " World Crisis," ' hold.; that the alternative policies for Great Britain, " within a revised League," are either " to form part of a League...

last of old Africa is going—the old Africa of the spear aii of the dark forest . . . of ignorance and cruelty and !' ...Scion, no doubt, high roads will link up every quarter of...

that, so far as this country is concerned, the 7 h.p. Austin is the most famous car in the world. Naturally that does not mean . . that- it is the best ; it only means that it...

A NOTABLE RECOVERY. THE latest accounts of the Rhodesian Railways Ltd. and the Mashonaland Railway, whose share capital is mainly held by the Rhodesia Railways Trust, which in...

Foreign Investments . . • , THE latest issue of the _MonthlySReview, of. the :Midland Bank has an interesting article dealing with the subject of International Investments, a...

BY ZENO r.4 prize of 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 marked " Crostwwd...

Crossword Puzzle No. 192 is Miss Hunt, Mountfield, Bridport, Dorset.