opening of the third year of the war has rightly been made the subject of various historical retrospects in the y Press. Here it is sufficient to recall some of the perils ough...

Relations between Japan and the United States (and therefore between Japan and Britain) remain strained almost to breaking- point, but there are some signs of a slight...

not yet been published we write, but persistent rumour has credited them with a plorable weakness. NOt the - least important compensation us for the full-diesi military campaign...

The formation of the French "Anti-Bolshevist Legion" under the direct encouragement of Laval and Marcel Deat would have been not unremarkable, even if it had not provided the...

The Australian political situation, on which comment was made here last week, has been developed a stage farther by the resignation of Mr. Menzies from the Prime Ministership....

The Trades Union Congress, meeting this week, has national affairs recorded the verdicts that were to be cxp —determination to destroy the Nazi-Fascist regime, satisfac ti, at...

The announcement of the names of the American delega- tion to the Three-Power Conference at Moscow, coupled with the anouncement that Lord Beaverbrook will head the British...

The Report of Sir William Beveridge's Committee on Ski11:4 Men in the Services brings home a claim on our limi t. resources of industrial skill for which it is certainly...

HIS war is going to be won by machines, not men. Or rather it is going to be won by both, for machines ithout men are even more useless than men without achines. But a...

Germany's " black record," I have always felt that a moil case could be made against her consistent policy for the par eighty years at least. A passage I happen to have come on...

A S Lord Linlithgow's extended term of office as Viceroy of India draws near its end—he will retire next April—specu- lation about his successor is beginning. Two obvious...

when mass-assassination becomes the first duty of large sections of every belligerent population. The general rule, I suppose, is that if the assassinee is deep enough sunk in...

aeroplane disaster this week will be widely regretted, lei Professor Mowat was known to a large circle through his boo4 which were numerous. He was, no doubt, rather a compass...

fact, any child could do any day). I said last wed in quoting statistics' of the married and unmarried sections d the population at the last census, that a good deal more ttil...

viittd a month, it is obviously profoundly disquieting. The otlid two machines crashed in taking off from British soil, di sabotage might very reasonably be suspected. But this...

" Onward, Christian Soldiers," shall be generally sung in places of worship next Sunday has probably been acquies- cently adopted by too many incumbents to make it any use to...

THE ASSAULT ON LENINGRAD By STRATEGICUS T is nearly three weeks since the Russian communiques began to announce fighting along ." the whole front," and some days, with the...

By WILSON HARRIS I T is three weeks now since the document variously known as the Eight Points and the Atlantic Charter was broad- cast to mankind. Apart from the immediate...

By A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT YCHONEUROSIS has been far less prevalent in this war than in the last. This is a much more remarkable fact an may at first appear to the layman. In...

By H. L. GUY, F.R.S. E VER since the attack on Russia ten weeks ago the question " Will Russia Last?" has been asked by every person in every country who has watched the...

By H. D. C. PEPLER T HERE is one particular park in South London which have looked down upon from a train almost daily for years on my way to the city. I forget what it looked...

DISMAYED by the horrors of War! — the sunlight shines On nibbled heaps of wreckage, on sweating men Straining to clear the crumbled gaps in the lines Of pock-marked houses, and...

By HAROLD NICOLSON n NE of the worst evils of totalitarian war is that sooner or X./later it compels even the most civilised countries to behave in an uncivilised manner. We...

lies, or used to lie, a faded photograph of some former Dutch Minister issuing from the arched gate of his residence for hi s morning ride. On each side of this gate a Persian...

reforms. An American financial mission intro. duced some sort of order into Persia's incoherent fiscal system. Communications were improved, and the great truth railway...

up and down the gravelled pathways of his garden at 'Shinar his great frame clad loosely in light khaki, his forgers to with a frail necklace of amber beads, his eyes...

sweet and ancient flowers of Persian culture were replaced by plants bedded out from Odessa or Berlin. I recall, as symbolic of what happened , the courtyard of the theological...

welcomed the modesty and moderation with which at Coventry Mr. Eden referred to the Persian situation. He might well have claimed a resounding diplomatic triumph, or draped the...

gears of Iranian policy, looms the large lonely figure of Reza Khan Pahlevi. Persian history would seem to be as recurrent as it is ageless, and the same patterns form and...

The Cherry Orchard." By Anton Tchehov. At the New Theatre. -" Squaring the Circle." By Valentine Katayev. At the Vaudeville. LIFE as it is : life as it ought to be—this, to...

" Sunny." Plaza. At the Regal.-- " Kiss the Boys Goodbye." At the THE cinema this week is suffering from an acute attack of musicals. If you are the sort of unromantic person...

" THE MILK-SHORTAGE AND WHY " Stet,—In an article entitled " The Milk-Shortage and Why," your con- tributor Mr. Lamartine Yates makes some extremely debatable state- ments on...

SIR,—Will you allow me, as a practical farmer of nearly 4o year ! ' experience, to endorse every word of your correspondent, Mrs. Pock, in your issue of August 22nd? It seems to...

Spectator to waste its valuable space in publishing so many trivial grumbles at the various methods of rationing which seem to most of us to control our food supplies so...

Sut,—In one of the letters grouped under the heading of " Grim Belligerency " in the last issue of The Spectator, " Middle-Class " writes: "If our national imagination has...

SIR,—I think that Colonel Mozley and I have been friends for a sufficient number of years to know that underneath our many differ- ences of opinion there is a solid foundation...

Slit,—May I amplify Mr. Franklin's admirable letter in your issue for August 29th? It is true that no tests can determine a child's vocation at the age of 13, or even later. We...

SIR,—The amount of discussion already raised by the " Atlantic Charter " shows once more what a long way it is from the proclaim- g of principles to their application in the...

Sra,—I am grateful to " Nemo " for his views. The writer of this letter is well aware of the Nazi menace to India and has no more sympathy for the negative policies of the...

Sias,—In your issue of August 29th, the anonymous reviewer of my book I Liked the Life I Lived expresses the opinion that I seem unresponsive to literary values and considers...

used to prove anything. In t announcement that only 2 per cent. of home-produced eggs, and less than 12 per cent. of imported eggs, sold under the new egg. scheme, were bad is...

Keeping Tomatoes Fresh As I hoped, the possibility of keeping tomatoes fresh during th e winter by means other than bottling and pulping has been wo r t examining. Bottling...

scientific adviser to the Ministry of Food and an intelligent, troubled and rather sceptical middle-class mother struck me as being a rather extraordinary affair. Before it...

the tomatoes are harvested is a problem that worries a Westmorland correspondent. The answer, of course, depends on the size of the greenhouse and whether it is going to be...

Sta,—For close on two years your paper has contained articles and letters complaining of the planning and carrying out of the evacuation scheme. Now Mrs. Williams-Ellis praises...

Power Politics : An Introduction to the Study of International Relations and Post-War Planning. By Georg Schwarzen- berger. ;Cape. zis., " WARRE consisteth not in Battell only,...

A Seer Down the Street Mess like George Stun exist in every village community, though they do not usually come before the public as he has done with his set of books on country...

The Nazi New Order in Poland. By Jon Evans. (Gollancz. 6s.) THE primary purpose of this book, its author states, is to disp a working model of the German "New Order " which H...

Mat. PHELAN'S book is, in one sense, topical: it discusses aspect of the Irish question that is now most immediately in British mind. But a permanent value is given to the...

d The Church and the New Order. By William Paton, D.D . (Student Christian Movement Press. 6s.) THE title of Dr. Paton's new book implies that some kind of a new order is going...

The End of the Old School Tie." By T. C. Worsley. (seeker and Warburg. Searchlight Book. 2s.) The End of the Old School Tie." By T. C. Worsley. (seeker and Warburg. Searchlight...

By CUSTOS IF the turnover in the stock markets is falling short of brokers' expectations the tone is as good as ever. There is plenty of money available for investment and only...

MISS SYLVIA THomPsoNt persists in diluting her shrewd and delicate talent with too much glamour. It is a pity that she does not, even for once, try the experiment of ignoring or...

MR. PHILIP E. HILL'S SPEECH THE thirteenth ordinary general meeting of Beechams Pills, Limited, was held on Thursday, August 28th, at the May Fair Hotel, London, W. Mr. Philip...

general meeting of North Kalgurli (1912), Limited, we held in London on Thursday, August 28th. Mr. C. T. Ley (the chairman), after expressing regret at the death of the late...

TELEPHONE RENTALS, LTD. INCREASED PROFITS IMPORTANCE OF COMPANY'S SERVICES THE annual general meeting of Telephone Rentals, Limited, was held on September 4th in London. Mr....

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