HE Government's second thoughts on the fuel problem are in some respects better, in others worse, than their first. The vernment is to take full control of the operation of the...

In the instructive debate in the House of Lo d jau plans for world settlement Lord cr.as WI-toff° n of declaration of policy at tbe• hn -onthich we stand, must, he r s_ the...

In an article on " The Commonwealth at War" contributed t The Times last Saturday, Dr. Evatt, the Australian Minister f External Affairs, outlines the genesis and growth of the...

Another aspect of Allied co-operation was given last Saturday by Mr. Edward Stettinius, the Lend-Lease Administrator at Washing- ton. At the start we quite rightly thought of...

The Australian Prime Minister, like Mr. Churchill. has con- sistently avoided over-sanguine statements about the course of the war, and it was manifest that the confident speech...

Mr. Oliver Lyttelton's visit to America is a reminder that a com- bined policy of production for the United Nations is just as important as a combined strategy. Long ago the...

The report on reconstruction prepared by the Federation of Brim Industries accepts in principle most of the current ideas that ha now almost become truisms, acknowledging the...

it has turned. That is the conclusion which a strictly sober survey of every battle-front ippears to justify. The last week in May has carved for itself !pee of its own in the...

new scale is inevitable, if in some sense idle. The new scale, as Mr. Churchill warned the House of Commons, will of course not be uniformly maintained. Tuesday night's raid by...

based, in some cases, on the conviction that an escape remarkable could not have been effected unless the Germans, f reasons of their own, had winked at it. There is no solid...

are two pronouncements by him in the May 24th iss of his paper Harijan: "Leave India to God. If that is too much, then leave h to anarchists." " Their [the British] withdrawal...

Parliament and the ation with the full weight of a united Cabinet behind it. But the Cabinet has, I gather, been by no means united in its discus- sions. There has very...

of it unconsciously, to Miss Dorothy Watson, the Edito Secretary, who died suddenly on Tuesday after an operation. Th who have had contact with her casually will realise...

we possible) Germany to be wiped off the face of the earth. I do n criticise the aspiration ; I am only anxious to try and understand What is the Germany that is to be thus...

to mark the attainment of a new degree of co-operation between the Christian Churches of Great Britain, Protestant and Roman Catholic, was important and impressive. The Bishop...

By STRATEGICUS N 0 battle in the war bears any sort of resemblance to that which opened last week in Libya, with the single exception o f General Auchinleck's campaign of last...

By PERCY DUNSHEATH* M UCH has been said and written during recent months on the importance of ensuring the post-war prosperity of this country by taking steps to redress the...

By D. W. BROGAN Los Angeles, May 17th. I BEGAN getting silver dollars, the old cartwheels, in my change, and the olives in the shop were labelled " super-colossal." It...

By V. S. SWAMINATHAN I F an Indian were asked to name the three foremost public figures identified with the National Congress movement, his choice would unhesitatingly be...

By PROFESSOR NORMAN BENTWICH A FAMOUS painting of Rembrandt, " The School of Anatomy in the Maurits-Huis at the Hague, shows a group of sole Dutch doctors gathered round a body...

woods and fields and gardens Gave to her nature for her own And in a meadow set her down And told her it was Eden. Showed her the sky with words as blue And pure as I could...

gardening taste which was ours before the eighteenth century and which today is ours again. There have been six main phases, or fashions, in English gardening, and the new vogue...

disappearance of past modes of horticulture, there are other fashions which I should not wish to see revived. It can never have been elegant to surround the garden beds with...

was interested in new plants. He speaks of the crown imperial, which at that date was rare. He writes also of " roses damasked white and red," by which he can only mean the...

By HAROL D N 'COLSON D RIVING back the other evening through the northern suburbs I was startled by the beauty of the flowering trees in the gardens of Golders Green and...

regret that some of our gardening habits should have been forgotten. The mediaeval garden bench was made of turf, or camomile or pepper- mint raised upon brick supports. That...

Hire." At the Plaza. tae two major releases of the week make it clear that there is no pie distinction to be drawn between the war-film and the film escape. For Saboteur and...

AS to triumphant arms Life leaps to death, And ends her daily harms With quiet breath. She brings earth-gifts as dower. Where strong death waits Life, fragile as a flower,...

Twenty Years Back THE various musical organisations in London have put their heads together and combined forces to produce a set of programmes that, even in less difficult...

Sla,—Last week's Spectator contained a quarter-page advertisement fr the Rationalist Press Association asking for postcard " Yes " or "No replies to the following questions: i....

But never has any better letter been written on a theological subject than his last to your issue for May 29th. I agree with every word of it on a subject that I have tried to...

SIR, —The following sentence appears in the article "Challenge to Christians " in your issue of May 29th: "The Christians now found themselves all on one side of the arena, with...

SIR, —The recent article and correspondence in your columns on th wage-earner's teeth move me to write an account of the action which been taken by the Public Health Committee...

Sta,—Having subscribed to The Spectator for many years as one of th few weeklies with a Christian viewpoint, I am surprised and disgus to observe that you (for reward) in your...

A NEW TABLE OF LESSONS sm,—May a fairly regular reader of lessons in church, though one with no claim to Biblical scholarship, venture on a comment on Lord Cecil's interesting...

Snt,—The arguments put forward by Sir Wm. Beach Thomas and Lord Northbrook are not borne out by the facts. There are practically no unthreshed stacks left, whereas in peace-time...

dental care for the many children and adolescents who require it is lack of sufficient dentists. This -is common knowledge, and is confirmed by the large number of...

SIR, —The Spectator of May 22nd, 1942, publishes a letter in which Sir Hari Singh Gour states, with regretful concurrence, that Mr. Gandhi , has declared the British...

C., that e approved societies are not responsible for the limitation of their tivities, which were defined by the Insurance Act, but that does not ter the fact that the system...

SIR, —In support of Mr. W. W. Paine's contention in his letter in your last issue, may I point out that it is an accepted principle that, in international law such unfortunate...

have provided in the shape of soya bean products, which are highly conden The chemical value of this bean is beyond question. A correspond (writing from as far off as the...

Sitt,—In your May 22nd issue, the reviewer of Mr. Wiener's book, German With Tears, showed an understandable reluctance to accept Mr. Wiener's statement that education in...

Whit Monday to see milked in a model cowshed. After watching for some while, he to the land girl who was milkmaid: " Can one drink that sort of after it's been properly...

at intervals in a neighbour's garde very friendly blackbird, distinguished by a white head. It nested year in , some thick ivy growing against the house. The young are n at...

admirable journal, and being particu- larly interested in Mr. Harold Nicolson's " Marginal Comment," I feel moved to write on a recent note concerning the admiration felt by the...

foods. (Did not a fam newspaper proprietor lay it down that food, money and women were three most popular themes?) One correspondent complains of Government's attitude towards...

Sts,—" Janus " is unreasonable in objecting to criticism of telephone conversations by exchange operators. A telephone conversation is no more entitled to privacy than a...

flowered before their normal date and best is over. By the best I mean Dalmatica Pallida, because of incomparable sweetness of its smell, suggestive of muscat. How m better are...

Total Power ,riot of Wrath: The Message of John Milton to Democracy at War. By G. Wilson Knight. (Faber. los. 6d.) is is an important book, and it is to be hoped that possible...

THROUGHOUT this book Major Simnett shows himself conscious of the need to explain and apologise for the dependence of colonial peoples on " foreign government, however...

Tins is one of those rare and refreshing books which bring old political assumptions to the test of facts, and in the process clear away mountains of make-believe. It is bound...

Catholic Art and Culture. By E. I. Watkin. (Burns Oates. 9S.) WITHIN the comparatively small compass of this book Mr. Wa has applied himself to a vast theme—nothing less than...

The Castle on the Hill. By Elizabeth Goudge. (Duckworth. 8s. CONFRONTED with the problems of a major war, the novelist m solve the problems of his own conscience. He can ignore...

HOWARD SPRING has reached, his publishers tell us, " distinguished position of a best-selling novelist." , No longer in mood of Heaven Lies About Us, a further account of his...

In My Good Books. By V. S. Pritchett. (Chatto and Windus. 75. 6d.) THESE essays on various English, French and Russian writers, which first appeared in the New Statesmbn, read...

is far more difficult to catch her than it is for -her to catch what she calls life= life ; London ; this moment in June." This new tribute to Virginia Woolf, with a few...

Ward. (Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs. 6d.) THESE two Oxford Pamphlets are as full of substance as a couple eggs, and their objectivity is most refreshing in war-time. Cap...

slovak. as.) IN this small book Dr. Erdely supplements his larger wo Germany's First European Protectorate. In this, which was revie here on April 3rd, he gave an impressive and...

g uinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct goon of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. ntelopes should be received not later than...

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By CUSTOS IT is just as well, perhaps, that the investing public as a whole not yet prepared to follow the lead of the more optimistic sp in the City and join in the search for...

RAND MINES, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Union of South Africa) MEETING HELD IN JOHANNESBURG, MAY 22nd MR. W. H. A. LAWRENCE presided at the Annual Meeting of Rand Mines,...

DIVIDEND OF 14 PER CENT. forty - first ordinary general meeting of F. Francis and Sons, Limited, kid on May 28th in London. John Ismay, the chairman, said: The net profit for...

SMITH'S POTATO CRISPS CONTINUED SUCCESS SIR HERBERT MORGAN'S SPEECH THE thirteenth ordinary general meeting of Smith's Potato Crisps (1929), Ltd., was held on June 3rd in...

CROWN MINES, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Union of South Africa) IEETING HELD IN JOHANNESBURG, 21st MAY L W. H. A. LAWRENCE presided at the annual meeting of Crown ars,...