NEWS OF THE WEEK good, except from the Donetz, where the Gerinans seem to L ave succeeded, for the present at any rate, in warding off the ussian advance to the Dnieper, and...

Lord Winster raised a vital question in the House of Lords on Tuesday when he complained that the Admiralty had been con- centrating on the construction of slow merchant ships,...

The most important passage in the First Lord's speech intrG- ducing the Naval Estimates on Wednesday—and it was a speech full "of important passages on such questions as the...

Mr. Gandhi on Wednesday completed his twenty-one days fast and seems safe to survive the ordeal, though till his strength is built up again some danger must remain. The...

At a meeting at Leicester last Saturday the Archbishops Canterbury and York made a firm stand against the argument t leaders of the Church have no right to pronounce judgements...

The tension existing between the Soviet Government and the Polish Government now in London, and evidenced by a sharp declaration issued from Moscow on Tuesday, was to some...

The industry which will most urgently need labour on a large scale after the war is undoubtedly the building industry. In addition to the need for making up arrears covering the...

In his speech on the Army Estimates in the House of Commons Sir James Grigg had an inspiring theme—that of a great com- batant Army now believed to be fully trained and equipped...

f on he ed tit to at I AST week President Roosevelt spoke of a conference of representatives of the United Nations to be held in the ring to discuss post-war food production....

T HE Government, it seems, is very much to blame for the hold-up in Parliamentary business resulting from the regretted death of the Speaker. The intensification of the changes...

By STRATEGICUS 10TH in Tunisia and in Russia the war is waiting on the a caprice of that incalculable combatant weather. In Tunisia w near Rommel came to achieving a great...

By D. W. BROGAN I T is one of the oldest and most successful methods of revolu- tionary propaganda to destroy or, better still, to make ridiculous the sacred mysteries .of the...

By OSCAR HOBSON T more they talk about expansion, the more they plan restriction." This acid comment on current discussion of the t-war world fell on- my ears the other day....

By GEORGE SCOTT W E often hear of the Shakespeare country, the Hardy country, and so on. In Russia, I dare to think, it would be just as correct to talk of the Lenin country,...

By .R. NORMAN WYATT ATE one chilly autumn evening in the sombre days of 1939 nusual occurrence you may think ; but it was. That day had en the first day's ploughing on that farm...

By HAROLD NICOLSON F OR those who are interested in behaviour there are few pastimes more agreeable than to sit m the hall of some hotel or restaurant and to observe...

so happens that this week has presented me with an opportunity seeing two plays, separated in time by three hundred years, on e same theme, that of a man selling his soul to the...

" Once Upon a Honeymoon." At the Odeon.—" The Silver Fleet." At the Leicester S q uare.—" March of Time." At the Empire.--" White Cargo." At the Re g al. IT is with...

AGE straddled her bowed shoulders, mad decay In horrid retinae clutched her frail frame: Limbs lissom fifty years . before, dragged lame, Black hair had faded to its winter's...

Sia,—Just in case anyone should imagine the " Head of Maintained School " is writing on the basis of exceptional experience, and that the point he makes is therefore not...

depicted in her article, "Life As It Is," will wring the hearts of few. Mrs. Simpson admits being young and energetic and of having only herself to look after in a minute flat...

SIR,— Evelyn Simpson's article in a recent Spectator evokes sympathy, but her dilemma is but part of a far greater problem. I refer to the crying need of some form of domestic...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sue,—The Archbishops' speeches on the control of human purpose focus attention on the competitive offer by all the political parties of a bargain- line...

SIR,—" A Member of the H.M.C."—he does not give his name and clean • does not understand my argument—says I have made untrue assent° in stating that Public Schools (a) " have...

the author writes "our profession is the only one in which there has been no salary- increase of any kind to meet war-time conditions." In the interests of accuracy may I be...

Sts,—The article on Games by your Medical Correspondent in The Spectator of February 26th is welcome at a time when criticism of the over-importance attached to games in a...

Sts,—The article by Sir Norman Bennett in your issue of February 19th, 1943, serves a most useful purpose at this time in focussing attention on the above subject. The...

Snt,—Fine words from your correspdndent, " The Need for Work," but clarion calls, from one obviously " well-shod " and, short of a miracle happening, never likely to be in a...

SIR,—Outside refugee committees very few people are likely to know of the part played by refugees in our national war effort. Because, to most of us, masses of statistics fail...

SIR,—" Janus " is pleased to characterise Lord Beaverbrook's recent stir- ring appeal to the Government to stop its interminable talking and get on with the war as " one of the...

SIR, —As " Janus " truly remarks, the victory of Lady Apsley in the recent Bristol Central Election was a considerable achievement, and one feature of the Election deserves...

WE have almost reached a spring month—" the month that blooms the whins," the month whose winds are taken with beauty—without passing through winter. In the south-west the trees...

Stse,—I would strongly favour Mr. Roger N. Witton's suggestion for a People's Hansard to be available on the bookstalls. I believe that Hendon, from whence his letter comes, is...

How to Plan Well EVERYONE is determined that in the new world it is hoped to build after the war, mass unemployment must be abolished and no section of the population must be...

Education for a World Adrift. By Sir Richard Livingstone. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. 6d.) Education, a Search for New Principles. By Herbert Philipson. (Routledge. 55.)...

The Art of Seeing. By Aldous Huxley. (Chatto and Windus. 7s.) IN 1939, having suffered from defective vision for most of his life, Mr. Huxley came to the conclusion that this...

IT was a bright idea to make the story of the great African travellers better known to the wider public—and perhaps it is evidence of the interest nowadays taken in things...

6d.) War Crimes and Punishment THE chief value of this study is its discussion of the modes of punishing the Axis Powers for the war crimes committed by them and their agents....

Mildensee. By Naomi Royde Smith. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d.) Ticky. By Stella Gibbons. (Longmans Green. 75. 6d.) The Dead Look On. By Gerald Kersch. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) A Place In The...

winner of Crossword No. 206 is T. R. N. C.noFrs, Sunset, Wrecclesham, Farnham, Surrey.

one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, March 16th. Envelopes should be received...

By CUSTOS APART from a recovery in home rail stocks and a spectacular rise in diamond shares, markets still refuse to respond to the good war news. I am not surprised, nor is...

(Dent. 125. 6d.) MRS. SPRY is an artist ; already well-known for her flower decora- tions, she will now be equally consulted as a culinary muse, and just as her most successful...

" vertical co • nflict s in which nations fight one another and the horizontal conflict which are ideological, political, social and economic." The vetera reader of books on...