THE REFUGEE TRAGEDY By SIR JOHN HOPE SINMPSON HE representatives of thirty nations, including Great Britain and some of the Dominions, have been meeting at Evian this week on...

OPERA STAGE AND SCREEN " Don Pasquale" Revived HERR VON HOCHSTIRN and his colleague, M. de Sourcil, have, I see, been tchaing and tutting over this matter of Don Pasqua!c....

I 'Louis versus Schnmcling." THE CINEMA At the Cameo-' The Rive--' At the Berkeley "THE Gas-man flew at his adversary like a tiger, struck five blows in as many seconds,...

A DISGRACE TO EUROPE? [ To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-I must protest against the immoderate and reckless language used in your issue of June 24th, and which lowers the...

REPORTING PUBLIC MEETINGS [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-In his notes last week "Janus " referred to the welcome given to Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru at the Kingsway Hall, and...

THE NEW BLACKMAIL [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR.-May I put your readers on their guard against a new type of blackmailer, who has been busy in my neighbourhood lately ?...

OPEL CARS [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-Your very admirable feature, " Current Questions," will lose much value if the answers given are as disingenuous as the one...

AN INVITATION TO GERMANY [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-Three years ago you allowed me to write in your pages an account of the plays produced in the open air at...

The Bill to provide armaments credits for Turkey received an unopposed Second Reading, a fact which illustrates how completely the public attitude towards such matters has...

The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: On Tuesday Mr. Ben Smith drew attention to a matter which is of growing concern to many private members, namely...

Mr. W. S. Morrison was duly apologetic in introducing yet another temporary measure dealing with milk. He had hoped, he explained, to bring in a comprehensive Bill, embodying...

I National Parks The well-planned campaign for the establishment of National Parks which Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., launched last week should find many supporters. The Standing...

I Good Food for All The failure of Governments to make use of the advances of * cience except for the production of armaments is one of the greatest disasters of today; and it...

lRising Unemployment Once again the monthly unemployment figures show an Increase. In the last month a further 24,ooo have been ;:Jded, bringing the total unemployed to just...

THE Prime Minister's speech at Kettering on Saturday has displeased the farmers, though his refusal to commit NEWS OF THE WEEK this country to the policy of agricultural...

Japan's Advance Last week the Japanese captured Matung, on the Yangtze, and owing to the rise in the level of the river her warships were able to pass the boom. Another boom...

Non-Intervention Progress The Non-Intervention Committee has finally adopted the British plan for the withdrawal of foreign combatants, and four of its members, Britain,...

Princess Lieven. THE LIEVEN AGAIN By H. Montgomery Hyde. (Harrap. i2s. 6d.) SINCE Mine. de Lieven has at last attained the distinction of an English biography, it is time...

Later Poems. THE LATER RILKE Bv Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated with Intro- duction and Commentary by J. B. Leishman. (Hogarth Press. ios. 6d.) I AM inclined to think that...

Germany's Debts Sir John Simon was able to announce in the House of Commons last week that a settlement had been reached by the German and British Governments of the dispute...

The Claims of the Refugees The Conference called by President Roosevelt to discuss the fate of refugees from Germany and Austria opened at Evian on Wednesday, and the lives of...

Difficulties in Austria Herr BUrckel, the Nazi Commissioner for Austria, has at length recognised the justice of some of the complaints made against the new administration in...

Bankers and Industry The assumption of the ultimate direction of the great tinplate firm of Richard Thomas and Co. by a Board of Control presided over by Mr. Montagu Norman,...

Murders in Palestine The record of the past week in Palestine has been deplorable. On Monday there was an Arab outbreak in Galilee and in Jerusalem Jews were responsible for...

A Sanjak Settlement Great Britain's interest in the friendship of Turkey has been shown by the recent grant of credits and loans; France has shown that her interest is equally...

SOCIAL SERVANTS: III. THE PROBATION OFFICE R By R. F. SCOTT N the whole field of social service I can think of no one who has greater potentialities for both raising the...

BALKAN TRADE [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-YOU say that Central Europe and the Balkans, predominantly producers of agricultural goods and raw materials, offer a natural...

THE DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-The article by the Bursar of Merton College on " The Electricity Octopus " raises other questions of...

GERMANY'S TRADE OFFENSIVE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as bricf as is reasonably possible. The most sidrtal'l length is that of...

MODERN SUICIDE UICIDE has long been studied abroad as a symptom of social disease, and has provided even politicians with useful arguments. In an interesting article in the...

The AXniond Tree. FICTION Bv FORREST REID By Robert Liddell. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) 'T he Impregnable Women. By Eric Linklater. (Cape. 7S. 6d.) The Troubled House. By Rosamond...

ONE ROOM By CLIFFORD TOLCHARD HAVE been awake for a long time, watching the light creep through the slats of the blinds. I listen carefully to the street-sounds, trying to...

Morals in the Mclting Pot. THE PERPLEXITIES OF YOUTH By Edward F. Griffith. '(Gollancz. 5s.) MANY books have been written on sex in recent years. Some have been good, some...

The Spectre. THE DECLINE OF A CLASS By Maxim Gorki. (Appleton. 12s. 6d.) THIS is the fourth and last book of Gorki's tetralogy The Life of Clin Samghin and although there are...

IMPRISONMENT FOR SHADOWING [ To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-" Janus " seems to have missed the chief points of the R. M.'s remarks when sentencing a boy of fifteen to one...

ARBEITSDIENST [V'on enrem (leutscelifl Korrespontlentenj SEIT fiinf Jahren gleicht Deutschland ciner IKaserne. Dici riesige Armeen, die grauc der VWehlrmaclit, die braune der...

COAL-OWNING PEERS [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-Lord Hastings as 2Ist Baron and, Lord Cromwell as 5th Baron called out of abeyance can quite well look after themselves...

PEERS IN THE COMMONS [ To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-Surely in Current Questions, July Ist, paragraph I5, The Spectator is inaccurate: " Scottish or Irish Peers who are...

DR. NIEMOLLER AND THE B.B.C. [To rho Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-Broadcasts in German might perhaps be desirable, but why not a bolder treatment of German news in English ?...

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT Is this to be the complete stock market concerto? Most of us enjoyed that long and exciting first movement when values climbed spectacularly and-must I...

Examination of 'McTaggart's Philosophy, Vol. 2. A CAMBRIDGE METAPHYSICIAN By C. D. Broad. (Cambridge University Press. 45s.) THIS formidable work is published in two unequal...

A People's History of England. A MARXIST HISTORY By A. L. Morton. (Gollancz' * 8s. 6d.) IT was inevitable that sooner or later Mr. Gollancz should produce a Marxist History...

THE "FRIENDS OF EUROPE" [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-The Rev. E. B. Perkins asked in his letter in The Spectator of June ioth four questions of " Friends of Europe,"...

FASCISMO AND LILLIPUT [To the Editor of Tin SPECTATORJ SIR,-The report of the physical fitness tests to which officials of the Fascist Party are nowv subjected, and which...

HOLIDAYS IN AUSTRIA? [ To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-The admirable letters from Mrs. Butler and Mr. Clement Gadsby will not lack supporters and my only excuse for...

HELP FOR VIENNA JEWS [To the Editor of THE SPE-CTATORI SIR,-I have just spent four days in Vienna and I find that our Jewish friends there are often cut off from even such help...

HIGH WIND IN THE CARIBBEAN BOOKS OF THE DAY lBv GRAHAM GREENE 1i is nine years since Mr. Richard Hughes published his fbsrmer-and first-novel, A High Wind ill Iamaca Nine...

PLAYING-FIELDS FOR LIMEHOUSE [7o rute ELditor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-By the death of William John Braithwaite on March I4th last a great loss came to many homes in East London,...

THE FAITHFUL MOHAWKS [To the Editor of. THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-The points of detail raised by me in my review of The Faithful Mohawks were not very important, but since Mr....

ATHENS AND OXFORD [ To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-Janus in his Notebook complacently refers to D)r. Ernest Barker as a distinguished Oxonian who has only " chosen Athens...

PROTECTING BRITISH SHIPPING [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-One was rather surprised to read your editorial note to the letter under this head in your issue of July ist,...

COMMENTS ON THE PREMIER [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-I was sorry not to have time last week to write and express my strong disapproval of the tone taken up in your...

THERE IS NO RETURN By Philip Jordan Mr. Jordan's memoirs (Cresset Press, 8s. 6d.), are less littered with the names of the great and the glamorous whom he happens to have...

I THE JULY MAGAZINES CURRENT LITERATURE The Nineteenth Century, for once in a way, does not comment on Spain, Germany or Italy apart from a highly ,abstract article...

DEATH AND DIPLOMACY IN PERSIA By Yury Tynianov The treaty of Turkmanchai between Russia and Persia in the early nineteenth century marks a turning point in Middle Eastern...

A SUCCESSFUL DICTATOR Commonwealth and Foreign FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT DR. OLIVEIRA SALAzAR has lately completed his tenth year as Portuguese Minister of Finance. It was...

A Poet and Two Painters: A Memoir of D. H. Lawrence. D. H. LAWRENCE IN NEW MEXICO By Knud Merrild. (Routledge. 2s. 6d.) - THIS " Memoir of D. H. Lawrence " concerns itself...

ixiles in the Aegean. A LITTLE TYRANT By Bert Birtles. (Gollancz. I6s.) IN a world infested with "Dictators," there is a possibility that some of them may escape notice. Amid...

FINANCE AND HEGEMONY HE debate in the House of Commons on Monday on the grant of credits to Turkey was more import- ant than may be generally realised. For the core of the...

COUNTRY LIFE Dirt-cheap Acres A speaker of world-wide experience said last week at the annual meeting of the oldest-and best of agricultural stations that agricultural land...

A SPECTATORWS NOTEBOOK HE Independent Liberals must be flattered by the warmth of the Prime Minister's invitation to them (in his speech at Kettering on Saturday) to come over...

The Importance of Living. THE EAST ADMONISHES THE WEST By Lin Yutang. (Heineemann. 15s.) LIN YUTANG'S previous book, Myr Country and My People, was a study of the Chinese...

THE NEW COUNTRYMAN By EVELYN WAUGIH ITIES have ceased to be habitable; agricultural land has ceased to be a sound investment; these two facts, which no one would seriously...

FINANCIAL NOTES GERMAN DEBT AGREEMENT As in the previous struggle over the service of Germany's foreign loans which occurred in 1934, the threat of compulsory exchange...

THE LEAGUE AND ITS SUPPORTERS By J. A. SPENDER ETWEEN Dr. Bevan's and Dr. Gilbert Murray's recent articles in The Spectator, I think we may at last get a clue to what is...

ART Cone:niporary German Art WE are now so accustomed to the idea that everything good in European painting must come from Paris, that rmany will approach with complete...

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO THE SPECTATOR," JULY 7TH, I838 There was a grand review of the Royal Artillery and Sappers and Miners, at Woolwich, on Thursday. The Duke De Nemours;...

WHAT WAR IS TEACLHNG CINA-Il By MADAME CHIANG KAI-SIIEK [This is the second of a series of five articles ba the -wife of the ChIinuse CoJ.m'zllt Jyr-ijz-C C1f Mn:.'. C;hia'vg...

WHAT SHOULD WE FIGHT FOR ?-Iml Under Thirty Page By J. JEROME DESSAIN [ThZc writer is an Oxford graduate, aged 26] OTHING ", is the immediate reply. We would get nothing out...