T HOUGH much still remains to be told about the tragic sequence of events in Greece,-enough is now known for certain to establish several conclusions. First, British policy and...

The Senate's reception of the security proposal of the Republican Senator, Arthur H. Vandenberg, is of first importance to the United Nations. A poll of the United States...

In the historical sequence of events regional alliances in Europe have come first, though in logic the world organisation has priority, with regional arrangements falling under...

The defeat of General McNaughton, the Canadian Defence Minister, at the Grey North by-election, considerably increases Mr. Mackenzie King's difficulties The set-back is in a...

The World Conference of Trade Unions is meeting, at the invitation of the British T.U.C., at a significant juncture in world affairs. The American Congress of Industrial...

The debates at the Assembly of the Liberal Party were spirited and full of confidence, and have helped to replace the Party on the political map. Speakers had no strikingly new...

The statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer about war gratuities and other benefits payable to serving men on demobilisation is likely to meet with general approval....

In striking contrast with the practically unbroken silence of British bankers on the Bretton Woods proposals, the American Bankers' Association has come into the open with an...

N OTHING is known, as this is being written, about the Black Sea Conference beyond the bare announcement published on Thursday. That does not mean that all consideration of its...

W HAT, it is inevitable to ask, will have happened by the time this column appears again next week? The feeling that anything may happen at any moment is irresistible ; but no...

By STRATEGICUS IIHE question with which my last article ended remains without an answer ; but perhaps it is now possible to pose the question differently and suggest in...

By JAN NOWAK,* Lieutenant in the Polish Home Army HROUGH the five years of the German occupation of Poland the battered remnants of Warsaw's " intelligentsia " continued...

By SIR ERNEST BARKER M R. ISAAC FOOT, the chairman of the Cromwell Association (a modest society of commemoration which seeks to keep green the name and fame not only of the...

By EDWARD SAMSON D ENTAL disease, which is present in over go per cent, of the population, and is responsible for an incredible amount of illhealth, with its resulting loss to...

By HAROLD NICOLSON F all problems of human governance the most difficult, as the most fundamental, is the proper relation between the government and the governed, between the...

"The Infernal Machine." At the Chanticleer Theatre Club.--.“ Meet The Navy." At the Hippodrome. IN the period between the two wars, Jean Cocteau was one of the most discussed...

" They Came to a City." Generally released.—" The Woman in the Window." At the Odeon.—" The Constant Nymph." At Warners. They Came to a City, Ealing Studios' screen version of...

Four London Exhibitions WILLIAM Scores watercolours at the Leger Gallery are another indication that the younger generation bids fair to keep English painting in the field in...

SIR, —Dr. Sheldon is concerned at the present attitude of young scientists ta industry, but, I think, does not appreciate all thereasons. Perhaps, as a younger man, I can go...

Sia,—Lord Hinchingbrooke, in his article "Parties and Benches," has drawn attention to the fact that the two-party system no longer exists in as historical sense. Party...

SIR, — Mr. Walston has given a very interesting account of the various war controls of the farmer, as well as what he considers will be necessary after the war. Although it will...

Snt,—When the Palestine Mandate was drawn up the possibility of creating conditions in Palestine, which on the one hand would assist in the development of a Jewish National...

SIR,—In the , excellent recommendations in this article one misses a plea for philosophy. This most vital/study of all, can be taught in simple fashion to the young, as I have...

SEAC Souvenir, the recently published account of the fighting in Burma, the author observes in his description of the hardships and endurance of the troops isolated in " Admin...

pt,—I would like to point out to . " School Master's Son," in reply to his statement that salaries of teachers have so much improved since Victorian days, that his figures may...

SIR,—The answer to the query by " Janus " in your last istue is provided by the Prime Minister himself. In his book My Early Life there are numerous referencgs to his old nurse,...

The Aesthetic Adventure. By William Gaunt. (Jonathan Cape. 10s. 6d.) Tars is an ingeniously planned book which is well-designed to instruct and entertain as large as possible a...

A Seventeenth Century Country Gentleman. By E. A. B. Barnard. (Heifer. 10s. 6c1.) IN this little volume, the publishers tell us, a seventeenth-century gentleman is "vividly...

A History of the Roman World from 30 B.C. to A.D. 138. By Edward T. Salmon. (Methuen. 20s.) Roman Panorama. By H. Grose-Hodge. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.) EVERY...

England and France, 1939-1943. By R. B. McCallum. (Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6d.) IT has become customary to examine and diagnose Anglo-French relations as if they were a kind of...

The Old Burma Road. By Dr. Neville Bradley. (Heinemann. 9s. 6d.) FOR those whose ideas of comfort are not too parochial, few pleasures can equal the sense of liberation and...

Forest of Anger. By Romain Gary. Translated by Viola Garvin. (Cresset Press. 7s. 6d.) All Hallows Eve. By Charles Williams. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) Colcorton. By Edith Pope....

Moreland, C.S.I., C.I.E., and A. C. Chatter i ee, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I. Second Edition. (Longmans. 2Is.) THIS book, origizially written in collaboration by two well-known...

How many things how many people mean to do when the war is over! More than this: how many are presuming to do these desirable things the coming spring! For example, the...