p HE negotiations between General de Gaulle and General Giraud, I, conducted through General Catroux, have dragged on over many cdcs, and have served rather to emphasise...

Within 24 hours of the beginning of a great coal strike which would have had disastrous results on American war production Mr. Roosevelt intervened with decisiOn, and ordered...

In all our operations in the war none matters so much as the 3rding of the sea-lanes, and first and foremost the main North !antic route between America and Britain. Nowhere...

Whatever view may be held about the claims of Civil Service trade unions to be allowed affiliation to the Trades Union Congress, nothing can justify an attempt to jump their...

There is one section of the community on which the war ss have imposed the gravest handicap unless special measures a taken to diminish it—that of young men and women between t...

Mr. James Griffiths is asking the Minister of Fuel if he is aw that fatigue is affecting the output of miners, and that this is part due to deficiencies in diet. It was...

On Tuesday, while the House of Lords was discussing the need of houses for agricultural workers, the House of Commons plunged into the larger problem of the shortage of houses...

ARSHAL STALIN'S Order of the Day addressed on May Day to the Red Army and Navy is a document well alculated to inspire his indomitable forces with fresh con- dence and...

W HEN I first read in Tuesday's Daily Mail the statement that " Lord Elton said at Westminster yesterday Whoever wins this war will be in a position to shape the pattern of...

By STRATEGICUS T is as gratifying as it is useful to the Allies that it should be United States troops who have taken what is perhaps the ost important nodal point of...

By PIERRE Vli.'NOT - * Material and moral suffering, physical exhaustion, lowering of the standard of life to a sordid level, ceaseless pre- occupation with the means of...

By MARY AGNES HAMILTON T HERE'S a great spirit gone. Even in the midst of war, the . 1 passing of Beatrice Webb calls for more recognition than a e contracted newspaper...

By SIR WILLIAM BARTON T is a commonplace with Indian Muslims that Britain is always I ready to placate the Hindu Congress at the expense of her friends the moment Congress shows...

ON Thursday last, you and I, accustomed to our ease Seated before the fire, legs up, a book upon our kneel, Listened with cool detachment To the News at 9 o'clock. " Heigh ho!...

By DAME GEORGIANA BULLER S INCE the Committee on the Training and Resettlement of the Disabled, presided over by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, reported...

Ly HAROLD NICOLSON W HEN the stern strokes of Big Ben hush their vibrations on the still air, we listen in anxious excitement to the calm voice of the announcer as he tells us...

the Haymarket. THE THEATRE MR. NOEL COWARD is now forty-four years old—if the ordinary books of reference can be trusted. He reached his lowest level with the operetta Bitter...

Two New Chamber Works A NEW Quintet for Clarinet and Strings by Dr. Gordon Jacob and Benjamin Britten's First String Quartet, which has not been heard in England before, were...

The Royal Academy PEOPLE still go to the Academy, and still talk about it ; and while they do so it will be an enemy of good painters outside it. That is, while exhibitions...

" The Light of Heart." At the Tivoli.—!• Lucky Jordan." At the Plaza.—" The Little Hump-Backed Horse." At the Taller. ALTHOUGH The Light of Heart heads the list of new...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR, —Your leading article on April 2nd was rightly headed "Indian Perplexities." It is not surprising that the House of Commons should be perplexed, for...

Snt,—I am in sympathy with Mr. C. D. Kimber's letter published by you last week, but it is your comment which hits the nail on the head The United Nations as at present...

question have forgotten that India is, after all, a mere geographical term relating to the great peninsula which extends from the Himalayas to Ceylon and that the talk about...

"Rusticus " in his letter (April 3crth) sounds very nice: unhappily, it is vitiated at the basis, in that it would involve a flagrant breach of the public faith. It presupposes...

SIR,—" Janus's" first paragraph in your issue of April 30th suggests that his memory of Christ's teaching is inadequate. Luke records the precept (xvii, 3, 4): " If thy brother...

SIR,—It is with great surprise that I read the following words in your issue of April 23rd on the subject of the murdered Polish officers: " There is more to be said for leaving...

SIR, —The disfranchisement of Parliamentary electors is only partial, as those electors on the existing register are qualified to vote for candidates at by-elections. Qualified...

SIR,—I am afraid Mr. Ratcliffe falls into two very common errors to which about 95 per cent. of the British lecturers who visit America succumb. Not only do they attempt to...

SIR, —Miss Janet Adam Smith's lively and agreeable article on the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland does not at all exaggerate its closeness. Indeed, by decrees repeated...

SIR,—In your issue of April 16th Sir William Beach Thomas, in his article on the house sparrow, states that the R.S.P.B. desires to preserve all birds. No such declaration has...

SIR,—As the B.B.C. presumably tries to cater for all sorts and conditions when drawing up programmes, I wonder what section of the community the " up in the morning early "...

SIR,—We cordially agree with Mr. Latham in his opinion that a wide distribution of periodicals like The Spectator would be a help to men in all branches of the Armed Forces....

WE should all pay a final compliment to the April that has left us with still untarnished reputation. It has been said that the deadliest feature in English—as in...

Part II. By R. Coupland. (Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d.) BOOKS OF THE DAY India in Transition PROFESSOR COUPLAND has written a book quite indispensable to anyone who seeks...

The Politics of the Unpolitical. By Herbert Read. (Routledge. 75. 6d.) THERE is an immense amount of critical and suggestive thinking in the book, which consists of a number bf...

1 he Fish Gate. t.y michael Graham. (Faber and Faber. zos."6d.) WE all know that it is difficult and, sometimes impossible to buy fish at the present time, and most -AT us...

The Daily Press. By Wilson Harris. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. 6d.) THE serious reader still awaits the publication of the final, authorita- tive, full-length study of the...

No Directions. By James Hanley. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) Wind Before Rain. By John Weaver. (Chapman and Hall. 9s.) Anya . By Joy Davidman. (Jarrolds. 9s.) Somewhere in England. By...

The winner of Crossword No 21 5 is Ma. E. ON MAY 21st Sulam, 6r Stony Hill Ave., Blackpool, Lancs.

m Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct sclution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, ;.'ay igth. Envelopes...

Always Afternoon. By Faith Compton Mackenzie. (Collins. r2s. 6d.) THERE are three qualities which may give an autobiography some- thing more than the very mild interest...

By CUSTOS THOSE who expected that the surmounting of the Budget hurdle would enable markets to develop a stronger stride have so far been disappointed. At the moment there is...

Paul. ros. 6d.) EVER since the discovery that words have different meanings has been called Semantics, no effort seems to have been spared for their obfuscation, and Mr....