All things considered, the vote in the Greek plebiscite on Sunday must be regarded as satisfactory. The majority in favour of the return of King George—some 7 to 3—is decisive ;...

first purely Indian administration is a decisive landmark in the history of India, but the fact must be frankly faced that it is not the administration which the British Cabinet...

Nothing could be more timely than the two articles on Germany which Lord Beveridge has contributed to The Times in the past week after a brief visit to that country. A man of...

The resolute trade union campaign for two separate but kindred ends—the elimination of the non-unionist and the elimination of all unions not affiliated to the Trades Union...

In the absence of any international agreement on atomic control the bomb continues to throw its threatening shadow over the political scene. From Russia there is silence which...

Both the Arab Higher Executive and the Jewish Agency have refused to participate in the London Conference opening on September 9. Assuming that both sides are sincere in wishing...

The conference of the World Food Organisation at Copenhagen has made a good beginning with the endorsement by the British and American delegates of the proposals put forward by...

EEK by week, indeed day by day, - evidence flows in from V V every Continent to emphasise the fact that the single dominat- ing problem in the world to-day is Russia. At Paris...

and personal charm, with gifts extending far beyond the theatre. As chairman of a committee, for example, he was brilliant, com- bining as he did extreme patience and tact with...

that, about a memorial to the Brownings, has its nice points. If it is a question simply of commemorating the marriage of the poets, then St. Marylebone Parish Church clearly...

T HE Tradeston by-election result confirms the impression that in spite of the reasonable expectation of a normal reaction after Labour's sweeping victory of last year the...

desire to vex it further. With the complaint of some secondary schoolmasters that their holidays are being shortened as part of a "levelling-down" process resulting from the...

was disclosed at the Toynbee Hall Juvenile Court last Monday. The mother of a boy charged there—and of six other children—was shown to be receiving 33s. widow's pension and 31s....

End and driven about so far as petrol permitted— are various. Road surfaces surprisingly good, but the narrowness and sinuosity of the lanes disconcerting ; the main streets of...

socio- logy and economics and writing a book—almost a novel of family life in India seventy years ago—about his parents and their home.

By DEREK PATMORE Athens, Monday (by cable). T HE Greek people, fully conscious that the world was watching them, have voted for the return of King George, and although the...

By MALCOLM K. MACMILLAN, M.P. 11 ERE the sea is all islands and the islands are all lochs," wrote a traveller of old times, returning from this "antique land," these hundred...

By ROBERT R. HYDE After some weeks of conservative treatment an infected middle ear flared into activity, and the surgeon, with regret and disappointment, told me that an...

• because of their Nazi education, they probably will in fact draw this By MICHAEL , LEE T HE recent amnesty for all Germans up to the age of 27 against whom there is no...

By CHARLES W. STOKES Y ELLOWKNIFE is not, of course, everybody's cup of tea. It is unlikely, for example, to attract much attention from con- ducted-tour organisers. You will...

copies late in the past three weeks. The reason is a dispute in the printing trade, which still continues.

By HAROLD NICOLSON • HAVE been following with interest, not unmixed with perplexity, ▪ the indignation which has been aroused in Russia by the two periodicals or magazines...

Message for Margaret." By James Parish. At the Westminster. "You don't mince your words, do you?" snarls one character to another, and the unkind comment sums up one of the...

"The Stranger." At the Gaumont, Haymarket and the Marble Arch Pavilion.—" London Town." At the Leicester Square Theatre. ONLY the unnecessary improbabilities of The Stranger...

The Rape of Lucretia." At the Sadler's Wells Theatre. BENJAMIN BRI1TEN'S new opera The Rape of Lucretia, first produced this summer at Glyndeboume, is now presented at Sadler's...

Snt,—In your issue of August 23rd Sir Angus Watson discusses the cause of Russian fear, and, after ruling out her possible external enemies, con- cludes by a process of...

Snt,—In recent years Europe has known three main kinds of dictatorship— Communism, Fascism and Nazism. Though differing from each other in certain respects, they all have this...

CHINA'S CRISIS SIR —It is true, as you observe, thit we cannot ignore an American point of view on China's crisis—such as Dr. Henry van Dusen's—but as an "old China hand" of...

Sta,—Mr. Evan John has recorded elsewhere how, in connection with hi s book Time in the East, opinions and anger which seemed justified two years ago should have been changed or...

SIR, —Mr. T. A. Hooper's well-informed article on The Rand Strike will interest' many of your readers beyond those who happen to be share- holders in the South African...

SIR, —Sortie months ago I bought a house. In due course I obtained a licence for essential reconditioning and decoration, and trustingly placed the work in the hands of a firm...

SIR,—I had just finished writing a letter on this subject when my eye fell belatedly on Strix's paragmaph about camps on commons, in your " Notebook " of August 23rd. There were...

Sut,—Very opportunely does Mr. Harold Nicolson, in his Marginal Comment in your recent issue, remind our public opinion of the success of the mighty engine of German propaganda...

of A Spectator's 'Notebook, so that we may continue to enjoy his pleasantly fresh observations and attractive humour, and perhaps watch his style develop further qualities ; and...

ever got his facts quite right where sport or natural history wag - concerned. This is no longer true. "The crack of the ,rifle on the moor" becomes an extinct howler. But un-...

the despatch of parcels of clothes, books and various other commodities to individuals in the British zone of Germany (excluding Berlin) through "Save Europe Now." These parcels...

in the Ministry of Agriculture's magazine, Agriculture, and the most striking concern such "family farms" as our theoretical specialists have .decidefzi to damn. One description...

Three unusual appearances came to my notice last week. In a small garden close to my house appeared two water-rails, presumably on migration. The bird is, I should say, one of...

new garden has reached . me with a request for criiicism. Personally, I like to emphasise late-flowering shrubs, in which the list seemed to me weak. The bush St. john's worts,...

Hall did in your last issue on the importance of letting the world know the British point of view. There is another aspect of the question, however, that he does not seem to...

tht last year and more, and have sent in repoits to the master planners con- cerning the areas they consider most worthy of preservation. Their views not seldom conflict with...

Sm,—In his comment upon paper-rationing Strix overlooks the gigantic losses from enemy action sustained by many established publishers, who have thus far been granted no paper...

Stn,—As a regular reader of your paper I deeply regret that it has opened its advertising columns for furthering the practice of gambling through football pools. It seems to me...

Bright Intervals Mainly on the Air. By Max Beerbohm. (Heinemann. Ss. 6d.) THE B.B.C. likes people with a cosy fireside manner and endeavours to impose cosiness upon those who...

The United States Navy—A History. By Carroll Storrs Alden and Allan Westcon. (Robert Hale. 30s.) NAVAL history is -usually gravely neglected ; most people know something of the...

MR. HARVEY'S book gives the inquirer practically all the facts on which a judgement of contemporary political issues can be based, together with interpretative comments, most of...

MANY people who would not agree with Henry Ford that " History is bunk" nevertheless know little about the subject. It plays no part in their judgement of contemporary affairs,...

The River. By Rumer Godden. (Michael Joseph. 7s. 6d.) From Such a Seed. By George Martelli. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) Billy Potter. By Doreen Wallace. (Collins. 8s. 6d.) The Thursday...

Dutch Indoor Subjects. By Tancred Borenius. Manet By John Rothenstein and R. H. Wilenski. The Virgin and Child. By Thomas Bodkin. Botticelli. By Stephen Spender. (Faber and...

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THERE it a bitter flavour in this play produced in Paris last year, the year of Giraudoux's death. Like his other plays it is a fantasy ; the characters are types, mostly...

By CUSTOS LONDON is doing its best to uphold its recently won reputation for imperturbability in face of external shocks, but Wail Street is putting it to a severe test. It is...

A COMPARISON of this new revised edition with the first, which appeared in 1926, shows how amply events have justified Sir Stanley Unwin's,teaching. Vastly as the practice of...