THE WAR SURVEYED: GREECE SHOWS HER TEETH I By STRATEGICUS I IF the Italian attack upon Greece were designed to influence the United States election by an exhibition of the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I [In view of the paper shortage it is essential that letters on these pages should be brief. We are anxious not to reduce the number of letters, but...

SIR,-Mr. George Cadbury has put his finger on the vital spot ."f I the "Rebuilding England" problem. The evils and injustices of X private ownership of land are nowhere more...

LORD REITH'S CHANCE I SIR,-With reference to Mi. Clough Williams-Ellis's article on the I replanning of the cities of this country after the war and to Mr. George Cadbury's...

SIR,-It seems to be thought that the difficulties of town planning I would be removed if the nation or the town owned the land. Alter the annexation of Pegu in i852 the...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK EXT March is not quite four months away. It is a point |of time to fix our minds on. Before we get to it we shall have much to go through. If we do get...

One thing that every competent and honest journalist knows is that straight news should be straight news, and every decent and honest paper tries to give it. That is the one...

The article I have mentioned raises other issues. About the wisdom of hitting Italy as hard as she can be hit within the bounds of legitimate warfare there will be little...

The perils that are on our doorsteps in these days take undiscriminating toll, and I have to pay sad tribute to the memory of more than one frequent contributor to this...

I A good deal that is simply silly and a good deal that is actively pernicious is being said and written about British help for Greece. We are all of us impatient about...

* * th The Prime Minister selected three main items for his sur- vey. The failure of the invasion and air attack, the present condition of the Army and the military position in...

The Prime Minister-and no other man could have made it -announced modifications in the Household Means Test. This will give general satisfaction throughout the country, and...

Sir Edward Grigg made an important statement on the Home Guard. I suspect that he wrote much of it himself. It was too good for a War Office document and too sensible....

The country is finding its way through an uncharted field of history. It is fighting for its life on the high seas, m the air, in foreign lands and in its own cities....

The Week in Parliament Oui Parliamentary Correspondent writes: Parliament has met again after an interval. It is notorious that any long interval between meetings has two...

|| Two Aspects of Evacuation The Government departments have never sufficiently realised that there are two ends to the evacuation problemthe place from which people are...

I the Re-building of London A resolution urging the necessity of preparing a scheme for the post-war planning of London and other damaged urban areal, wsas adopted last week at...

Books of the Day The Spot Marked X The Police and Crime Detection To-day. By Reginald Morrish. (Oxford University Press. 4s. 6d.) THIS latest volume of the Oxford University...

From Warsaw to Dunkirk The War for World Power. By Strategicus. (Faber and Faber.I ios. 6d.) IT is surely unnecessary to commend this book to the readers of The Spectator....

I I SIR--\tss Rose Macaulay in her interesting article on King Charles I Would seem to have overlooked one point which is important in deciding for what King Charles really...

THE GHOSTS OF BORLEY SIR,-Your reviewer's interesting comments on The Most Haunted House in England, which appeared in your issue of October i8th, suggest that the experience...

BACK TO PARTY POLITICS? SIR,-I think that Miss Evans' letter carries us a good deal forward, and I am glad that what I wrote provoked it. The point that she raises about the...

KING CHARLES THE MARTYR SIR-Mr. O'Horan puts into my mouth utterances and opinions which are not to be found in my article; I feel that he must have r ixed me up with "...

ARMY WELFARE SIR.-The subject of Army Welfare receives most rightly a good deal of attention today in both Press and Parliament, but it is apparent that many of those who...

SIR.-The Rev. Patrick K. O'Horan will have to delete from his list of churches dedicated to "King Charles the Martyr" the example which he quotes from Plymouth. This church is...

The Ancient and the Moderns I Milton and His Modern Critics. By Logan Pearsall Smith. || (Oxford University Press. 3s. 6d.) IT would be easy to dismiss this discursive tract...

Secret Police The Gestapo. By 0. C. Giles. Oxford Pamphlets on World I Affairs. - Clarendon Press. 3d.) THE Gestapo, the German Secret Police, has almost complete immunity....

NEWS OF THE WEEK THE war in Greece, which is dealt with in detail on another page by our contributor " Strategicus," still follows a surprising course, the Greek resistance so...

Hitler and Vichy The relations between the Germans and the Vichy Government might be viewed with a certain sardonic humour if issues of such importance were not at stake. It is...

Shelters-a Compromise ps Mr. Herbert Morrison has made a concession which faN-vurs the theory of the deep shelter by promising to construct a limited number of them-though few...

Mr. Churchill's Survey The sobriety of the Prime Minister's review of the war in the House of Commons on Tuesday was marked. As usual Mr. Churchill eschewed any approach to a...

General Smuts at Khartoum I I There are few places in the world where the British flag is flown that seem today, as when Gordon died, more remote from the centres of...

SIR,-Whllst Canon Lloyd's article is timely, having regard to the fact that the present Parliament has almost run its course and we must very soon be preparing fox a general...

INDIA'S EFFORT SIR,-The situation in India has provoked much correspondence in your columns and elsewhere. To the outsider it appears remarkable that, after a hundred years of...

RUSSIA AND THE BALTIC STATES I SIR,-I can conceive nothing more cynical than your contributor's remarks about the necessity of appeasing Soviet Russia by our Go ez. ment...

SIR,-The behaviour of the animals of London Zoo during air-raids,| as described by Dr. Julian Huxley, may be paralleled by the varying reactions of our own native wild life....

DISENFRANCHISED SOLDIERS SIR,-I wonder if it is generally realised that whereas officers serving in H.M. Forces enjoy facilities for voting in the by-elections of their home...

SPITFIRES FROM BOOKS An appeal for the Book Trade Spitfire Fund has been signd by Mr. Basil Blackwell and Mr. G. B. Bowes as booksellers, Spence, Curtis Brown as a literary...

"BIRDS' INDIFFERENCE TO AIR-RAIDS" | SIR,-About ten days ago in The Times column usually devoted to observations on "The Course of Nature," there appeared an article under the...

Fiction I Twilight in Delhi. By Ahmen Ali. (Hogarth Press. 7s. 6d.) I Mooshka. By Avram Melnikoff. (Michael Joseph. 8s.) Whiteoak Heritage. By Mazo de la Roche....

"0 Sweet Content ! " Life Is Sweet, Brother. By Bernard Darwvin. (Collins. I2S. 6d.) " I HEAR you write," said a clergyman to Mr. Bernard Darwin: "that must be very nice . ....

Where Wolsey Taught I Magdalen School. By R. S. Stanier. (Blackwell. ios. 6d.) THIS pleasant and excellently produced volume will delight many besides the alumni of the...

An Increase in Anglers It is interesting to note, by the way, that although the war has killed almost all of what are known as traditionally English 1 sports, there is one...

COUNTRY LIFE Medicinal Herbs: An Explanation Readers of this column may remember how, earlier this year, I called attention to the shortage of medicinal herbs, and suggested...

Pure Rivers The English have societies for the protection and purification of most things, from mongrels to morals. I find it pleasant to discover that they have a society for...

Sources of Pollution Pollution is easily detected. The distressed condition of fish is the commonest sign. Where no fish are seen dead or distressed the obvious signs are badly...

THE CINEMA ma Pride and Prejudice." At the Empire." The March of Tinme (Britain's R.A.F.) 1:?-ide and Prejudice raises in acute form the old argument as to ca e ether famous...

HITLER'S BALANCE-SHEET | WITH British aeroplanes encountering snowstorms as they fly to bomb Berlin, the war is entering its winter phase, with consequences inevitably exacting...

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT I By CUSTOS MARKETS are so good that one might easily be tempted to draw over-optimistic conclusions about the course of the war, The truth is that...

GREAT DOG OF WEIMAR By GRAHAM GREENE MY title is not, I should explain, a disrespectful reference to the great German poet, but to another inhabitant of Weimar, equally...

I"V- ' w a--'1'' tz *- -. ..-.. __- .. I.., . - ..W I. i.. ..-. AMERICA'S MIGHT By ERWIN D. CANIIAM By Air Mlad. AS, or soon after, this dispatch reaches British readers, the...

AIR-RAID WARDENS' CLAIMS By LADY- VIOLET BONHAM CARTER DURING the year of lull before the Blitzkrieg started Air Raid Wardens were generally regarded as a quite unnecessary...

GREECE'S DANISH KINGS By WARREN POSTBRIDGE I ITALY," someone has said, " expected to go through Greece as Germany went through Denmark." The comparison is natural, and it...

MR. ROOSEVELT'S TRIUMPH MR. ROOSEVELT'S re-election as President of the United States, with at least 43i electoral votes in his favour out of 541, is a triumph alike for his...