T, OR President Roosevelt this has been a week of perplexities and satisfactions. The satisfactions derive, of course, from the results of the Moscow Conference, whose nature he...

A reconstitution of Marshal Badoglio's Government seems prob- able. His desire to include men like Count Sforza and Professor Benedetto Croce is welcome, and no doubt sincere,...

The speech delivered by President Inonii at the opening session the Turkish Grand National Assembly on Monday has con- ‘cterable significance, particularly when considered in...

The Prime Minister had a congenial theme when he moved the appointment of a Select Committee of the Commons to report 00 plans for the rebuilding of the House. Who but Mr....

The meeting of a provisional constitutional assembly at Algiers shows that the French movement is making progress in the spirit of the agreement between General de Gaulle and...

The action of Lord Wavell in visiting Calcutta to see the famine conditions for himself, and immediately drafting a three-point plan of action, was an imaginative and...

Nothing could be more amazing or more gratifying than the energy and ability with which Canada has assumed a leading position through her contributions to the war and tote part...

EVER in the long history of human conference, it may almost be said of the Moscow conversations, has so much been wed by so many to so few. To the three men who in so brief...

S we advance through the fifth year of war we congratulate our- selves, I think, on the extent to which the essential freedoms have been preserved inviolate. Of course there...

By STRATEGICUS T may too easily be assumed that the paeans of joy which have been coming from Berlin during the last few days are merely a histling to keep the courage up. The...

By P. A. LAPIE (Former Governor of Chad) T 1-IE French must not deceive themselves about the post-war situation. On the one hand we see those who are possessed with the idea of...

By PROFESSOR W. K. HANCOCK HE British public has this week been reminded by Mr. Malcolm MacDonald of the magnitude of Canada's superb war effort. is is as it should be ; but one...

By EDWARD OWEN MARSH T HE Theatre in Paris was perhaps more consciously artistic and certainly less successfully commercial than its counterpart in London between the Great War...

By MARTIN HALLIWELL T HE modern traveller's first introduction to China is soul-stirring, but uncomfortable. You fly*at 55 to 18 thousand feet over the pzaks and deep wooded...

By W. J. FERRAR C OUNTRY40VERS will agree that with the ancient church the parsonage is the centre of the charm of the village. The old iron-work of its gates, the shady drive...

IC BARRIE was forty - two when The Admirable Crichton was written and produced, and he already had been successful in the theatre. with Quality Street (1902) and the earlier...

d LET us consider the sad screen case of Mr. Orson Welles. With an established American reputation in the intelligent theatre he made a savage assault on cinema convention, and...

TONIGHT I know they will come. They have often come before, But tonight is theirs, and I Am alive and they are dead. My heart beats like a drum And they come to my heart's war...

OURSELVES AND RUSSIA SIR, —Further to Viscount Castlereagh's article I make a few additional suggestions on furthering the friendship between the two nations which so many...

SIR, —The position of Nonconformists in the Army, to which " Janus " has drawn attention, is peculiar. Of course, the War Office knows there are Baptists and Congregationalists...

article in your issue of October 29th. Without going into the controversy of what we should or should not have done—in the past over our rela- tions with Russia—I think it would...

I cannot rise to ask the Prime Minister whether he can forgive the Hon. Member for West Leicester for quoting him as having said that " never in the long history of human...

Snt,—I am afraid all the nice things about the " Padres' Hours " sta t in your issue of October 22nd are not appreciated by the rank and f of the Service men. By a strange...

Cottagers' Light. Electricity is such a boon - that it should certainly be within the reach of all. So should the equipment. At present the cost of electric appliances is very...

SIR, —Of the boys who joined this school at the beginning of this term the fathers of nearly one-third are on active service, a proportion which is probably typical of the great...

should like to make a few comm'mts on Hamilton Fyfe's article with the above-named title. He claims that the character training at our Public Schools is not finer and more...

Stn,—Theri is very little available information on the absence of electricity in rural areas. Col. Waley Cohen mentions, page 403, The Spectator, October 29th, " a reluctant...

Stn,—Mrs. Williams-Ellis reports from a valuable field of pioneer activity. The Fighting Services have at least one advantage when it comes to discussion. They are not asked to...

Stn,—I am unqualified to speak about present-day education, as it is nearly fifty years since I left school and a considerable time since my sons kept me in touch with their...

Sta,—I shall be glad if you can find room for what I conceive to be an important communication from me with reference to the gifts which we may be called upon to make to the...

Sut,—Some years ago I advertised for books on South Wales. All my answers came from the north of England. On commenting upon this to a bookseller, he replied, " Of course, the...

SIR, With reference to Janus's note in the issue of October 29th I suggest that the initiative for the appointment of a stipendiary magistrate comes from the town and that the...

Sta,—You state in the paragraph, " The Churches and Education," The Spectator, October 29th, that " on purely educational grounds the dual system should be ended once and for...

SIR,—Your correspondent "H. W. H." says that Trinity College, Cambridge, is " the largest college in either university." Members of the sixteen universities in Great Britain...

NOVEMBER has always been regarded by farmers as the ploughing month ; but never perhaps in English history have October, and indeed September, stolen so much of November's...

Down The Road Travel in England. By Thomas Burke. (Batsford. ros. 6d.) MR. BURKE is a very widely read man, and this perhaps is the main pleasure of reading his delightful...

Spain in Eclipse. By E. Allison Peers. (Methuen. iss.) IN this book Professor Allison Peers has written the sequel to his well-known Spanish Tragedy. The first 8o pages-...

• FEW women have ever been more • laden with common sense than Sarah Duchess of Marlborough. She had a very clear contempt for the unsuccessful. Her letters all reveal a...

Ordeal by Battle. By Captain Cyril"Falls. (Methuen. 6s.) Too often a reviewer has to complain that authors without know- ledge and without even experience are exploiting the...

Why Was I Killed ? By Rex Warner. (The Bodley Head. 75. 6d.) Against the Tide. By Arnim Westerholt. (The Hogarth Press. 8s. 6d.) . The Pleasure Dome. By Elizabeth Kyle. (Peter...

winner of Crossword No. 245 is A. M. Amorr, The Old Vicarage, Moulsford, Berks.

one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the fi rst correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, November 16th- Envelopes should be...

Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted Words. (G. Bell and Sons. 3os.) THIS should prove an invaluable work to scholars and writers just as Webster's International Dictionary has...

Shorter Notices THE list of authors is rather more exciting than the stories them- selves. Thus Joyce's Two Gallants exudes the same thick atmosphere as the rest of "The...

In Search of History and Not Peace But a Sword, is a first-hand account by the author of his European and Far Eastern experiences between 1935 and 1942. Mr. Sheean is a...

By CUSTOS IF ever there was news which should have stirred the stock markets, it was surely the announcement of a " tremendous success " at the Moscow Conference. Yet somehow...