• • • • • • • • ,• • . • : : INDEX FROM JULY' 7t h ' TO' 1:5ECEMBat 29th, 1939, INCLUSIVE. NEWS OF THE WEEK t IR Raids on Britain .. 531 . I Afforestation .. • • • 239 America...

T HE Anglo-Franco-Soviet discussions of the proposed pact of alliance were resumed in Moscow at the week-end ; but it is still impossible to predict a speedy conclusion to the...

are surprising. In return for the guarantee of the Baltic States, Great Britain appears to have asked for a Russian guarantee of Holland and Switzerland ; Russia is unwilling to...

live up to its role as the well dramatised danger point of Europe. Guns, machine guns, and tanks continue to be imported by sea or over the East Prussian frontier. Men are still...

show that, after all, he is capable of keeping his word ; the South Tirol has offered him one. Herr Hitler has repeatedly stated that the Italo-German frontier is inviolable ;...

by a staff of Foreign Office officials, arrived on Wednesday in Berlin, where he will meet with every temp- tation to throw in his lot with the Axis and thus secure early...

suffered drastic amendment in the House of Representatives and has now to come before the Senate. In its original form it provided that the embargo on arms, munitions and...

which were to have opened at Tokyo on Thursday, have now been postponed because the arrival of Japan's military representatives from Tientsin has been delayed. Already the...

Air Raid Defence League on " Food in War Time " is a valuable reminder of our dependence on imported food and the urgent necessity of accumulating reserves on a large scale....

hold the view that since we have protested against the German and Italian use of wireless for stirring up trouble in Palestine and elsewhere we should not ourselves broadcast...

Churchill be invited to join the Cabinet? On the whole M.P.s are less sanguine than the political correspondents of the London dailies. If Mr. Chamberlain were disposed to...

the number of questions to the Colonial Secretary. Several Members have become alarmed at the encroachments on the liberty of the subject in various parts of the Colonial...

Lords Select Committee on Road Accidents formed the principal stock-in-trade of those who took part in Wednesday's debate on the Ministry of Transport vote. Miss Megan Lloyd...

work of the Department of Health for Scotland. Scottish Members frequently complain of the inadequate time and attention devoted by Parliament to Scottish affairs. But they show...

the future course of the ' Thetis ' inquiry, there are several points which emerge from the evidence given by Captain Oram and Lieutenant Woods which suggest the topics on which...

Paris, coupled with Mr. Hore-Belisha's recent conversations there with General Gamelin and others, show how close • at the moment is Franco-British military co-operation. The...

of the Criminal Justice Bill until after the Summer Recess is a matter of the greatest regret. If the delay is due, as it may well be, solely to time-table considerations and...

T HE questions that before all others dominate the European situation at the moment are : What are Herr Hitler's intentions in regard to Danzig? and Are our intentions...

T HE latest unemployment returns show with the greatest clarity the effects of the Government's rearmament programme. In the current year over £600,000,000 is to be spent on...

but such criticism as I have seen of their supposedly alarmist tendencies has always appeared to emanate from the same people who are regularly taken aback by each European...

thirty years of magnificent public service. In 1922 he raised the Arab Legion, which he has commanded ever since. In 1923 he became Director of Public Security in Transjordan,...

passengers got off the train. They surged along the platform towards a huge notice " Way Out," to find a locked gate. They surged back to a point many yards away, where a single...

the German Press as an act of aggression, occurring in an interval between paroxysms of abject panic. Whichever it was, aggression or panic, the participants would have been...

I never caught her once during the whole week-end looking at herself in a mirror. Does that strike a bell in your mind?" Not immediately, I must admit, having never been a...

O NE hesitates to disagree with Mr. Harold Nicolson on any aspect of foreign affairs ; but it is really very hard to understand his comparison of Nazism to " a hoop which...

By SIR RALPH WEDGWOOD [Sir Ralph is Chairman of the Formation Committee, Air Raid Defence League] N INE months have passed since this country awoke from its dream of security,...

By A. R. LINDT II UMPTY-DUMPTY'S face, the perfect circle, is strate- gically the ideal shape for any country. By the Peace Treaties Rumania acquired almost exactly this...

By SIR WYNDHAM DEEDES A SUCCESSION of crises has limited our vision. We have become so dominated by the thought of immediate danger that we are losing sight of the distant...

By ERWIN D. CANHAM Washington. NV HETHER or not President Roosevelt opens and con- ducts a campaign for a third term in. the White House is by no means an exclusively domestic...

By GRAHAM GREENE T HE death last week of Mr. Ford Madox Ford was like the obscure death of a veteran—an impossibly Napoleonic veteran, say, whose immense memory spanned the...

By BASIL COLLIER M R. PROTEUS was an old man with a long white beard and a pink check flannel shirt. At the age of seventy-five he fell into an error he had hitherto avoided:...

of Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, proved un- able to see the wood because of the trees; today he fails to believe in our armour because of the chinks. He is well aware...

from the hedgerows still come some chirps of appease- ment. I received this morning a letter dated from the Langham Hotel and signed " Mother of a Wykehamist." In this letter I...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T H ERE occurs in Man Kampf a passage which every British statesman should learn by heart It has often been quoted, but it deserves to be quoted again. It...

expression in a phrase, which fre- quently occurs in speeches and State documents: " Let us judge each case as it arises and on its merits." We like that phrase since it...

any such stratagems. They remember that, at the time of Munich, they were similarly assured that self-determina- tion was the only principle which the Fiihrer desired to invoke....

THE CASE FOR NATIVE EDUCATION By SIR DONALD CAMERON EVEN in circles keenly interested in colonial affairs it is not generally realised that education is the one branch of...

" Boy Slaves." At the Rialto—" Captain Fury." At the London Pavilion THE summer doldrums are here at last, and the reviewer is faced with such dubious high-spots of...

THE THEATRE The Lantern. Wiener Kleinkunstbane in London. WE should be grateful to Herr Hitler for the Lantern: Austria's loss has been our gain. The Lantern is the new Little...

Cezanne THE centenary of Ckzanne's birth has produced the expected crop of documentation for all periods of the master's activity. First came the pure enjoyment of the famous...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] EINMAL, fast klingt es wie ein Marchen, waren Deutschland und Frankreich eine Einheit. Das war aber vor elfhundert Jahren. Der...

Whatever may be said of British fanning, the Royal Show is and always has been the best of its sort the world over. The Centenary celebrated in the Windsor Great Park through-...

A low rough bank in.a garden too spacious for much close cultivation is very lovely at this date with a commixture of dwarf Martagon lilies and yellow Loosestrife. This Loose-...

The Flower Cult The continuous increase of the flower show at the Royal has gone step by step with the growth of flower-farming and glasshouse farming in England. One single...

in the Great Park, but it would be easy to spend a day within the grounds and be scarcely aware of the presence of cattle, sheep, pigs and goats, though horses are much more in...

birds desert very readily in the early stages, but are bold as brass in the later. In general, photographers prefer the photography of the young. Eggs make a poor picture as a...

Mr. Jim Vincent, have been raising a lamentation about the destructive fondness of oologists, photographers, and even inquisitive ornithologists. Mr. Vincent, in his bitterness...

A Fruitful Season The country is really a very cheerful place at the moment. The hay crop is very large, whether of grass or clover. The grain crops look singularly strong and...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a pseudonym, and the latter must...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Stu,—In an article, " The Militiaman's Start," in your issue of June 23rd, Major B. T. Reynolds refers to the figures for the first 17,865...

with great interest the correspond- ence on "The Gospels Re-read," which appeared in your issue of last week. Perhaps you would allow a modernist Christian to add some words on...

June 30th there appeared a note on Right Training in the Militia, and in this note a paragraph to the effect that instructors in future will not indulge " in the bullying...

Sta,—Major Reynolds makes the statement that the figure of 84.5 per cent. of the first 17,865 Militiamen placed in Grade I can be compared with the report of the War-time...

Sta,—Where, may I respectfully ask Mr. Joad, do the Gospels speak about " God% eternal punishment of sinners "? The Gospels, re-read, seem to point in another direction. " This...

Sta,—May I, as a journalist who, by education and training, has some knowledge of German mentality, add a short com- ment to the excellent article on " The Purpose of Propaganda...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sra,—Your journal, and others similar to it, and a large number of daily newspapers have been made aware of the opposition which is being felt...

SIR,—I notice that a number of headmasters and distinguished visitors at recent public school speech days have welcomed conscription, because it will give public school boys a...

diplomat and political scientist, Nicolas Machiavelli (b. 1469), bequeathed to us his thumb- nail Picture of Germany in that momentous Renaissance century which saw the fall of...

SIR,—In reply to your correspondent, Dr. Abram's apparatus is not in the ordinarily accepted sense of the term an electrical apparatus at all. The eminent medical practioner,...

SIR,—Friends of the late Lord Allen of Hurtwood are anxious to collect material—including personal letters—with the view to the possible publication of a memoir. May I use the...

beliefs, demonstrably untrue, in which large numbers of people have unshakable faith. It would appear that to the splendour of the Southern Cross, the beauty of Paris midinettes...

be interesting to read the comments of Sir Chartres Biron on the following extract from Ian Colvin's Life of Lord Carson. It deals with an outburst in Northern Ireland of...

in statu pupillari at Oxford in 1921 are perhaps the best judges of Mr. F. Buchman's pretence that Oxford was the centre of the religious movement launched by his groups in that...

PAGE The Building of a Nation's Health (W. T. Wells)... ... 22 The Needs of Youth (The Headmaster of Stowe)... ... 23 National Reserves (Honor Croome) ... 24 Poems and Dramas...

IN his preface to this book Lord Portal says " King George's Jubilee Trust was founded to advance the physical, mental and spiritual welfare of the younger generation." At the...

A FACE all in oval lines, with features of delicate refinement, the eyes arched to a grave surprise ; the whole presented by an immense ruff, as if on a plate, and set off below...

National Reserves for Safety and Stabilisation. By L. St. Clare Grondona. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) AMONG the many anxieties overhanging the economic policy of this country...

FEW lines of scientific inquiry have been pursued with more passionate ignorance, more obdurate inattention, than that which concerns itself with the criminal and his ways. The...

A History of Welbeck Abbey and Its Owners. Vol. 2. 1755-1879. By A. S. Turberville. (Faber and Faber. 25s.) IN a previous volume Professor Turberville traced the fortunes of...

By KATE, O'BRIEN dventures of a Young Man. By John Dos Passos. (Constable. Sr. 6d.) hilct of Misfortune. By C. Day Lewis. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) easonett Timber. By Dorothy...

century, and his new book (Longmans, ros. 6d.) is concerned with its social rather than its political life. After a brief note on the revival begun by Charles the Great, he...

The " Splinter Fleet " was the name given to the little U.S. submarine chasers that did such effective work in the Mediter- ranean during the later stages of the last War. The...

THE Nineteenth Century opens with Mr. Harold Nicolson putting the question that is at the back of all our minds- " Is War Inevitable? " He would qualify its inevitability with...

The H.P. Tax The refusal of Sir John Simon to reconsider the new taxes cannot have been unexpected even by the most sanguine of optimists. When all is said and done the extra...

INVESTMENT ONCE again the stock markets have run into bad political weather and once again they have demonstrated their resisting power. Whenever tension becomes really acute...

It is good to find instances of big British industrial under- takings combining an increasing contribution to the nation's defence needs with steady progress in the export...

If any doubt remained about the seriousness and urgency of New Zealand's financing problems it must surely have been dispelled by Lord Balfour of Burleigh's frank review at the...

Regrettable as it undoubtedly is that the financial position of the British General Fixed Trust has become impaired, there is no cause here for any worrying on the part of unit...

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., LTD. FURTHER RECORDS ACHIEVED THE annual general meeting of the General Electric Company, Limited, was held on June 29th at Magnet House, Kingsway, W.C....

THE METAL BOX COMPANY, LTD. SATISFACTORY RESULTS IN A DIFFICULT YEAR INCREASE OF CAPITAL THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT THE annual general meeting of the Metal Box Company, Limited,...

Mr. H. C. R. Williamson, the chairman of Lobitos Oilfields, feels no doubt that the trend of oil consumption must in the long run be upwards, notwithstanding the check to the...

Rubber companies are now showing results which reflect the low prices and severe restriction of last year. Profits and dividends in general are sharply down. Anglo-Dutch...

TOWARDS FULL EMPLOYMENT AT just under 1,300,000 the total numbers of the British un- employed are now back to roughly where they stood at the peak of the 1937 boom. The fall...

shares in small companies might do worse than consider the merits of Manganese Bronze and Brass ordinary is. shares at today's price of 8s. This old-established under- taking...

the con- tainer which the canning industry uses, has an important role to play in the economics of national defence. Mr. F. N. Hepworth, the chairman, showed at the meeting last...

INCREASED NET PROFIT THE thirty-first annual ordinary general meeting of Lobitos Oil- fields, Limited, was held on July 4th at Winchester House, London, E.C. Mr. H. C. R....

NATIONAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED THE 67th ordinary general meeting of the National Bank of New Zealand, Limited, was held on June 29th at 8 Moorgate, London, E.C. The Rt....

The liquidator's report on the A.W. Second Stock Trust is the final chapter in the history of the two A.W. Trusts. The Second Stock Trust is being closed with a distribution of...

Mr. Frederick John Smith, the chairman of Sangers, the manufacturing chemists, told the shareholders that he was not sorry that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had refrained...

It is pleasing to see Richardsons Westgarth, the marine engineers of the North East coast, resuming ordinary divi- dends. The payment of 71 per cent. now announced is the first...

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