T HE course of the civil war in Spain has been obscured by its repercussions abroad : non-intervention has been made more difficult by the assistance given by Italian aeroplanes...

of President Roosevelt, Mr. Mackenzie King and, Lord Tweedsmuir as the 'chief speakers it is not surprising that the ceremonies whiCh marked Mr. Roosevelt's visit to Quebec last...

is to be restored to Europe it . can only be by sloW stages. A beginning has been made, not in Europe itself but on its fringes. The Montreux settlement with Turkey has at least...

Air, announced in the House of Commons last week that plans had at length been drawn up for an experimental North Atlantic air mail service. Experimental flights are to be made...

strikingly displayed in the conflict between the American Federation of Labour and Mr. John L. Lewis, head of the drive towards industrial unionism. Mr. Lewis, instituting a...

were announced by the President of the Board of Trade in the House of Commons last week, is to be welcomed on several grounds. It marks a clear com- mercial rapprochement...

has • examined the claims of the National Union of Railwaymen and the Railway Clerks' Association for a restoration of the. " cuts " imposed in 1981, was pub- lished on Friday....

article on a later page of this issue indicates, have a political as well as an athletic aspect. They have also, for that matter, a financial aspect, for Germany naturally...

of Sir Christopher Bullock, Secretary of the Air Ministry, is one of those unhappy episodes on which there is little temptation to comment at length. The charges against Sir...

the faithful Mr. Ernest Brown no Minister thought it worth his while to delay his holidays in order to stay and listen to them. For much sound sense was talked, and it would...

at the end of last week should strengthen the Government. Mr. Hudson, for instance, is too good an administrator to be left in the backwater of the Ministry of Pensions. Though...

by the extent to which his health is benefited by his holiday. He is still very tired, and was forced to leave the question of the new appointments in the last week of the...

Many of them will have to be back in Downing Street by the 'third week in August. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Cabinet will be meeting then to consider again the various...

Eustace Percy in The Spectator a fortnight ago on the question, " What Should We Fight For ? " is carried a stage further today by a very interesting contribution from the pen...

the adjournment motion is used as an opportunity by the back-benchers to raise minor grievances of administration. The result is a series of quick-fire speeches on a variety of...

Attorney- General, was perfectly right in saying on Sunday, on his return to Australia from London, that the whole question of the co-ordination of foreign policy between the...

T HE activity in the world today of two rival schools of political thought and practice is plain for all to see. Names are immaterial—Fascism and Communism, dictatorship and...

THE civil war in Spain has lasted for over a fortnight, and there is as yet no prospect of a final victory for either side. Before the Govern- ment's -authority can be restored...

the beginning of October, and the House of Commons not till the end of that month, and Lord Hugh Cecil has, I believe, not yet applied for the Chiltern Hundreds, there is no...

By LORD BEAVERBROOK [This is the third of a series of articles on the conditions in which military action by this country would be justified. Next week's article will be by Sir...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [This is the third and last of the articles written by a special commissioner who has recently visited Italy on behalf of "The Spectator."] I VISITED...

Or HE Olympic Games have taken possession of Berlin, " and . the whole thought and conversation of the inhabitants " are absorbed by them. It is the result, of course, of a long...

By OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT S ELDOM can an administration have been more thankful for the respite of the Long Recess than the present National Government. To those who...

By MICHAEL SPENDER M AP-MAKING, a pleasant and gentle occupation for anyone who likes to be out of doors, is in most countries a soldier's business, though as such remarkable...

By WALTER BRIERLEY T HE Co-operative Societies have held their quarterly meetings, the Dividend has been declared and posted on the windows of the central store and the...

By E. L. WOODWARD y NOTICE that the Directors of the L.N.E.R., who I gave a lead in the reform of railway posters, have asked a distinguished artist to decorate their station...

Commonwealth and Foreign [To the Editor of Tax Seac-rAron .1 SIR,—Like all visitors to this country I have been amazed by the calm with which the events of the past few weeks...

STAGE AND SCREEN TOMORROW evening for the forty-second year Sir Henry Wood will mount the rostrum at the Queen's Hall amid the tumultuous applause of a packed Promenade....

"Under Two Flags." At the Tivoli "Captain January." At the Regal How Ouida would have loved the abandon of this picture. the 32,000 rounds of ammunition shot off into the...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] WENN man die drei grossen Internationalen Kongresse in Deutschland nach der Zahl der vertretenen Nationen beurteilt, so schneidet der...

EARLY and pregnant hour ; Hazily sunbeams lacquer The flanks of horses ploughing the Fourteen Acre ; They move in a cocoon of golden steam, The logical furrow following furled...

The Gulbenkian Collection FOR several months the National Gallery will be enriched with a series of pictures which Mr. Gulbenkian has generously lent from his famous collection....

The Harvest Month We have entered the harvest month and are constrained to ask whether there will be any harvest. Several appearances are almost new to my experience. Where...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Last week you gave space to some very poor stuff from Mr. A. L. Rowse on the grounds that he is " a young man of military age who is also...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most. suitable length is that of one of our " News of the...

reader of The Spectator I am glad to see your columns open to all varieties of opinion, but I do not think that many of your readers will derive much help or satisfaction from...

. [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin, —The February elections in .Spain were held under a' Centre. Government which was controlled .by the . Right . Wing owing to the fact...

Sm,--=The 'article 'by Mr. A. L; Rowse in answer to the questiiiii;-"'What Should we fight for -? " is most 'enlightening. His reply is in effeet that Socialists Would- fight=...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a letter published by you last week, Mr. Haynes deplored the tax on beer and the destruction of herrings, and in view of these facts "...

Committee worker for the L.C.C. I have read the correspondence on the above subject in your paper with much interest. It has struck me that neither in these letters nor in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Last week there was held at Bristol, under the auspices of the Royal Empire Society, an Empire School. It was notable for the warm...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The outbreak of Civil War in Spain has led to the cancel- lation of the University of Liverpool Summer School of Spanish which is held...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It seems to me very unfortunate that you should have given prominence in your issue of July 17th to the article by Mr. Walter Greenwood,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,--As a citizen quite unable to own any party political affilia- tion for reasons which seem to me both genuine and, in present conditions,...

SIR,—In your issue of June 19th your motoring expert, writing on risks of the road, suggests that there should be a regular publication of road casualty lists. He also remarks,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your notes on the above danger you quote Sir George Newman, the late chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health, describing dental...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of June 12th, Mr. V. S. Pritchett, reviewing a book by a young American writer, Raymond Otis—Miguel of the Bright Mountain,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A short distance -from my house -there can be seen a woodcock sitting on four eggs. This is surely a very exceptional event at this time...

SIR,—The Palestine Royal Commission will leave only when order has been restored. As the members of the Commission are not themselves intimately familiar with the subject of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] , SIR,—I am engaged upon the biography of the late Lord Darling. The book was authorised by Lord Darling in his lifetime, and, until the date...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. William Blumberg refers to a report in The Times of Jirly 24th, and writes : " I see that the Zionists have com- plied with my...

'To the Editor,of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In case any of your readers should have been misled by the paragraph which appeared in your issue of July s 17th, will you alloW me to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Whilst agreeing with Mr. E. S. P. Haynes that beer is "abominably overtaxed," I would cross pens with him when he says that it is almost "...

SIR,—I have been . asked by the Council Of Lady Margaret Hall to write a memoir of Dame Elilabeth Wordsworth, the first principal of the Hall. Her family haS'with great...

By W. J. LAWRENCE SEEING that few stage classics have undergone such a microscopic examination as Hamlet, and that none has created so much speculation or aroused so much...

Connop Thirlwall. By John Connop Thiclwall, Junr. (S.P.C.K. 12s. 6d.) ON going to stay in the country recently I was much rebuked for arriving with an ostentatious pile of my...

News from Tartary. By Pater Fleming. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) News from Tartary is one of the rare books about which one can legitimately use the phrase " eagerly awaited." When, earl•...

ONE thinks, of course, of Volpone, or The Alchemist, or The Silent Woman, or perhaps of some of the remarks in Dis- coveries, whenever Ben Jonson occurs to one. It is seldom...

A nook about how everyone will be One at the end of Progress, by Feebleman and Friend—it might come out of a list in an Evelyn Waugh farce, and this ribald impulse does not...

Romilly-Edgeworth Letters : 1813-1818. With an introduction. and notes by Samuel Henry Romilly. (Murray. 9s.) ANNE GARBErr, whose letters to Maria Edgeworth are here ....

end of last year, before this book could be published, was a German from the former Baltic provinces of Russia, and after the War became an Estonian citizen. He devoted the last...

rder in Triplicate. By Hugh Austin. (Heinemann...2 4 7s 6d.) The Crimson Patch. By Phoebe Atwood Taylor. (Gollalaez. is. 6d.) Murder in Mesopotamia. By Agatha Christie. (Crime...

Bx V. S. PRITCHETT The Secret Journey. By James Hanley. (Chatto and Winclus. 10s. 6d.) - - - The Rock Pool.. By Cyril Connolly. (Paris : The Obelisk Press. 50 frs.) Going to...

By Mary Gordon This is the story of two women, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, known as " The Ladies of Llangollen," who lived in . the mid-eighteenth century. They...

uncom- mon, but Mr. 'Adrian Bell's The Open Air (Faber and Faber, 7s. ad.), sub-titled An Anthology of English Country Life, is in a class by itself. As readers of Corduroy and...

THE Nineteenth Century has an instructiv.e article by Mr, John Morgan on TYrieside and - Sorith Wales : a 'COmparigoit." He is unfair to the Tynesiders when he says that they...

Current Literature By Marie Scheikevitch The title Time Past (Thornton Butterworth, 15s.) is intended to recall Marcel Proust, who is a prominent figure in the, gallery - of...

Home . Railway Stocks SEVERAL circumstances have combined to concentrate attention during the past week upon Home Railway securities. In the first place, the half-yearly...

RISE IN RAILWAY STOCKS. WHILE most departments of the Stock Exchange have been firm during the last few days, interest has centred more parti- cularly upon Home Railway stocks,...

BY ZERO [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 " Crossword...

of Crossword Puzzle No. 201 is Mrs. Andrade- Thompson, Ramsdale, Newby, Scarborough.