T HE causes and implications of Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt's astonishing vietory are discussed at length on a later page of this issue. Here it is sufficient to emphasise the...

by the Government troops in Madrid the advance of the insurgents on the capital has been methodically pursued in the past week, and the capture of the aerodrome of Getafe, eight...

affairs at Milan on Sunday gives the impression, for all its vehemence, of a consciousness of weakness rather than of strength. It is significant that in the Italo-German...

respect that exuberant verbosity has come to be accepted as the natural characteristic of Dictatorship orators, for it means that speeches which twenty-five years ago would...

Wales on Monday, Labour was defending the gains made in 1933 : the returns for 132 county and non-county boroughs show that it has lost, on balance, 81 seats, while...

its political upheaval. On Thursday, General Bakar Sidgi Pasha, commanding the Army on manoeuvres seventy miles from Baghdad, marched on the city and sent aeroplanes to drop...

The legislative programme outlined in the King's Speech (with which our Parliamentary Correspondent deals on another page) is one to arouse satisfaction rather than enthusiasm....

Constitution of the Irish Free State can be only speculative until Mr. de Valera has formally introduced his proposals into the Dail, as he is expected to do within the next few...

to her to move the Address, the best speech so far has been that of Mr. A. V. Alexander. He set about the Government with the pugnacity expected of an Opposition leader on such...

evi- dently is to be the name for the measure by which the Government will deal with the situation created by the recent Communist-Fascist disturbances, will be as popular with...

the urgency of combining physical training with a cam- paign of improved nutrition. There was general sympathy for this argument when it was expressed by Mr. Harold Nicolson in...

:—The King's speech has given general satisfaction in the ranks of the Government supporters. There is no spectacular legislation, but what is offered is regarded as a series of...

continues, despite Mr. Duff Cooper's appeals. Many ingenious explanations have been given for it, in which modern youth's decadence, and lack of patriotism and adventurousness...

last Saturday, without causing or suffering any of the abuses forecast by those who disapprove of their action : the Chairman of the Jarrow Conservative Association, after...

T HE prophets have once more been confuted, and Mr. Landon of Kansas City, instead of making a close fight of it for the Presidency of the United States, is, as an American...

C ONTROL of the manufacture of arms and control of the traffic in arms are two different questions which must be clearly distinguished. The one raises domestic problems, the...

I SUGGESTED in this column three weeks ago the 1 transference of Mr. Walter Elliot from the Ministry of Agriculture to the Scottish office as a not unlikely consequence of Sir...

By the RT. HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, O.M. P ROFESSOR STAPLEDON is one of those men of genius for whom fame tarries long after achievement. He has had the misfortune to devote...

By ALDOUS HUXLEY I N Europe and America universal primary education has created a reading public which is practically co-extensive with the adult population. Demand has called...

By Dr. RUDOLF KIRCHER (Editor of the "Frankfurter Zeitung") • [An article on this subject from the French point of view appeared in last week's Sp edator."] W HEN I read Count...

IThis series will be concluded next week with an article by Canon F. R. Barry on "Revolutionary Christianity."] By DR. REINHOLD NIEBUHR T HROUGH all human history the strong...

By STEPHEN HOBHOUSE T HOMAS TRAHERNE is believed to have been horn in or near Hereford about the year 1636. It is therefore fitting that, before 1936 is out, we should...

By GORONWY REES O NE hot summer I went every day to the Museum. In the mornings the sky was a frail but cruel blue. I thought of those who were bathing, and of the sea and its...

By EILEEN O'NEILL Her strength flagged in the hot weather, and the doctor, puzzled, sent her to a specialist, who probed and questioned, non-committal and impersonal,...

By ROSE MACAULAY B Y the time these words appear, the Fifths will have come and gone, and the notorious Mr. Fawkes will have perished again all over England in a thousand...

Commonwealth and Foreign • By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Tokyo. Tun recurrent outbursts of Army radicalism in Japan, of which those of May 15th, 1932, and of February 26th,...

"Dodsworth." At the Tivoli "Mayerling" and "Fox Hunt." At the Curzon Dodsworth is a very well-made and well-acted film, with an essentially trivial subject. Dodsworth, a retired...

The Theatre " Till the Cows Come Home." By G. Kerr. At the St. Martin's Till the Cows Come Home is a political allegory in the form of a rural farce, which like most plays of...

The Dresden Opera Company AT last it has happened ! The permanent company from a famous foreign opera-house, with its singers, orchestra, con- ductor, producer and technical...

[D'un correspondant parisien] IL m'a ate possible de profiler des derniers beaux jours pour mettre it execution un projet deja ancien de pareourir au Moult; une region de la...

Garden City Surveys A phenomenon that deserves wide attention is the astonish- ingly rapid development of the garden city idea. One of the latest—at Welwyn—now contains 12,000...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents arc 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...

Sin,—Dr. Inge, having been taken to task by Mr..Strachey for calling Communists ." gangsters," improves the amenities of debate by referring to the " blood-thirsty criminals who...

mastered the art of saying provocative and refreshing things. His article on " The Common Ground " is delirious with them. It is a pity that it expires in the 'commonplace...

further evidence of the well-established fact that most, if not all, of the criticism levelled at the Catholic Church by non-Catholics is founded upon ignorance or...

." Christianity and Communism " Father D'Arcy complains that " many are saying that in- repudiating Communism the Catholic Church is taking up a Fascist attitude." The Reverend...

[To the Editor of Tin: Ser.crstoill SIR,—The article, " Milk : But What Milk," by Professor G. S. Wilson, in your issue of October 30th, confirmed my fears as to the deplorable...

all sympathise with the indignation of your Roman Catholic correspondents, but what have they to say to this horrible account in the Church of England Newspaper of trd ty The...

permit the laceration of our susceptibilities by musical performances in alien tempi ? Cinema organists seem possessed of an especial genius for taking liberties with the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I do not question the statement of a Carlisle tavern manager to Mr. Jack Woolford, but against that we have the testimony of Councillor...

a pity that Professor G. S. Wilson's admirably clear explanation of the intricacies of the Milk (Special Designations) Order should end with a strong plea in favour of the...

. _ [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I beg a little space to draw attention to a curious phenomenon in London music this season ? There is living today a genius who...

[To the Edith,. of Tun SPECTATOR.] . Sin,—Mr. John Sparrow's statement in his review of A. E. Housman in la't week's Spectator that " he was quite right not to allow his poems...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Dr. Alfred Cox, in your issue of October 30th, deals with the sudden financial strain which may, be caused by severe illness...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Stn,—Canon Mozley should have told Mr. Gedge that his law is as out of date as his controversial methods. In 1865, after a royal commission had...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Stn,—If legislation to curtail the power and activities of private armies is intended would it not be well to take advant- age of the...

in your issue of October 10th, said : " In 1908 the convictions for drunkenness in Carlisle num- bered 300 ; in 1916, 950 ; and in 1932, 49." He ought to have explained why the...

To the Editor of Tut: SPECTATOR.] S1R,—I think' Rose Macaulay was betrayed into injustice when, in her " Marginal Comments " of October 30th, she said that, though we considered...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Stn,—Mr. Namier says that " nearly a hundred Jews have been killed by Arabs " lately in Palestine. According to °Meinl figures, some :300...

By J. A. SPENDER IN the closing chapters of the second volume of the biography of her uncle Mrs. Dugdale presents an altogether charming picture of him in his last years. We see...

face of India has been obscured by the smoke-cloud of politics. NVe have been deafened by the clamour of Federation or an impossible centralised government ; of provincial...

The Faith of an Englishman. By Sir - Edward Grigg. (Mac- millan. 108. 6d.) THAT Sir Edward Grigg should give wrong dates for the formation of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's first...

Out of the Pit. By John Newsom. (Blackwell. 3s. 6d.) THESE two books, both meritorious, cover in different ways much the same ground. Mr. Greenwood is a specialist on the...

who seek for light on Cosas de Espana, which have _for_reallY generations been almost completely obscured from our view because of the diametrically different outlook on life...

Fountains of Youth : The Life of Marie Bashkirtseff. By Dormer Creston. (Thornton Butterworth. 117s.) " I MADE a wish in one word only ; a word that . . . is beautiful,...

By WILLIAM PLOMER Mary Lavelle. By Kate O'Brien. (Heinemann. 7s. Gd.) Eggs and Baker : or, The Days of Trial. By John Masefleld. (Heinemann. 7s. 6(1.1 Honourable Estate : A...

ADVENTURES AND PERILS Edited by C. Fox Smith Miss Fox Smith's anthology of sea stories of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century (Michael Joseph, 7s.-6d.) should be bought...

Current Literature By W. H. S. - Jones • - - • - lily this History of se: Catherine's College, Cambridge; beautifully produced by the Cambridge University Press (21s.), Dr....

. Thf Smallest prism ( - Michael Joseph, 7s. 6d.) is a story, or series of stories, of three small boys who lived in Peckham about 'fifty years ago, told by one of them. Like...

Mr. Baldwin has set forth his-views in the form of imaginary letters from an apparently eccentric man• living in a remote part of Algeria to. a debutante in England—on the facie...

By Joseph Henry Jackson This book (Macmillan, 10s. 6d.) is an ordinary account of a conventional motor-tour through Mexico by a party of American tourists. . Every move is...

Tit REE months' records have now accumulated for review, among them so many excellent recordings that it will be necessary to be much more summary than one would wish in...

Hillman 21-h.p. " Hawk " and the 14-h.p. Lanchester Boadrider." can both be called new models but for different reasons. The smaller car is new from.end to end, an enlarged...

the Currency Position,' sreated by the agreement between Great Britain, the United- States and France following the devaluation of. the 'franc. r Sir George thinks that...

investors alike began to turn their eyes in the direction of. markets which had been comparatively stagnant, or at any rate had failed to respond to the. general speculative...

MARKETS STILL ACTIVE. FROM the article which appears in another column it will be gathered that speculative activity in the Stock Markets has during the past few days centred...

" THE SPECTATOR," NOVEMBER 5TH, 1836. MONEY MEiti.KET. STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The gloom which has for some time pervaded commercial affairs, has been materially...

Br ZENO. [A 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 " Crossicord...

I The winner of Crossword No. 214 is Miss - Mary Ellis; North Lea, Northfield Road, Dewsbury, Yorkshire.