Japan's Demands China is once more faced with Japanese demands which she cannot accept without further loss of prestige and authority in North China, and cannot refuse without...

The Plight of the Liberals T1e aplcal by one of the fractions of what once was the Liberal party for £50,000 to set the party's organisation on its legs has been issued over...

The Fight for the Presidenzy The progress of the candidates in the American Presidential election is not easy to judge from the outside. Since Maine went Republican, it has...

Migration Within the Empire In recent months there have been several indications of a renewal of interest by the Dominions in Empire migration; Dominion politicians have made...

Madrid The assistance given to the insurgents has now, indeed, forced the (Govcrnmenft of the U.S.S.R. to reconsider its adherence to the non-intervention agreement. On...

Intervention in Spain The small Committee of Enquiry, including Miss Eleanor Rathbone, Professor Trench, Mr. E. L. Mallalieu and others, which has been enquiring into breaches...

FASCISM AND TIE EAST END AI CII ADES in the streets, baton - charges, riots, mass arrests are not common occurrences ill Loni(loii. The extraordinary scenes in the East Enid...

MARGINAL COMMENTS By ROSE MACAULAY OR how many centuries must the English practise their habits before these habits cease to be called un-English. ? " This sort of thing is...

In these circumstances, the largc majority by which the resolution was carried hardlly showed the assent -which. it cominan(le(d but merely the variety of intcrl)retations to...

THE debate on the rearmameut resolution p)resnted(l by T the exeutitive to the Labour Party Conference {at NEWS OF THE WEEK Edinburgh has given the country a most strikiiug'...

Labour and Communism The Labour Party's rejection of the I)lca to affiliate the Communist p)arty followed almost inevital)l fronm tlI~ strong anti-Communist line takeii at theI...

THE CHURCH AND THE SPANISH PEOPLE [To the Editor of 'riE SPE1CTATOR.J SIR,-Your article on " Thc Church and the Spanish People" has not seemed to me quite fair. The writer...

CHRISTIANITY AND COMMUNISM [To the lEditor of Til, SI'ECTA'TOR.] Sin,---Dr. Ernest Barker writes that an enforced ideal is a thing utterly oppose(l to C'hristianity." The force...

GERMANY'S COLONIAL CLAIMS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents arc requested to keep. their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of...

Sir,-Thc article, " The Church and the Spanish People," [To the Editor of TlEr ,Si'icriwiol.] in your issue of SL;I)temnb r 25th is very one-sided. 'Thc spirit of the...

The National Accounts-Growth in Expenditure Finance - - TIlE National Accounts for the first half of the current financial year give cause not, perhaps, for anxiety, but for...

THE FREE CHURCHES [To the Editor of TiIE SPECTATOR.] Sin,-The National Free Church Council, in its claim for Free Church participation at religious services held in connexion...

DICTATORSHIP AND SOCIAL REFORM I To the Editor of TmL SPEICTATOR.] Sit, Mr. Tlripp s remark that if natural selection invigorates a stock, we in England may expcect a...

PEACE FOR WESTERN EUROPE [To the Editor of Tl1E SPE CTrATon.] SIR,-It is generally recognised that the close association of Britain, France and Germany is necessary for the...

THE STATE AS LICENSED VICTUALLER [lTo t1h Editor of TiE SPECT ATOR.] Sim-.Mr. Amngs WVatson does not challenge imy contention that the Liquor Control Board took over the...

THE CHANCE FOR FREER TRADE HE dc-valuation of the franc and the cuirrenicy agreement set up between Great Britain, the United States, and France create a great opportuniity...

" The Night of Janualry i6th." I STAGE AND SCREEN The Theatre By Ayn Rand. At the Phoenix ON the night of Janiuary 16th solniethlinr- or, sinec the play's stylistic...

"T he Texas Rangers." The Cinema At the Plaza--" Savoy Hotel 217." At the Curzon--" The King Steps Out." At the Regal The Big Parade, The Crowid, Hlallelujah; these are some...

"A Month in the Countrv." B3y Ivan Turgenev. At the Westminster LAST autumnin Mr. Anmner Hall, wNho presides over all the diverse activities which take place within the...

Art Painters are M\fen SI_\c I lT hve alr'eadv wriitten (lcW here att great Jenig!thI ml Op)iIliOIiS of' thele ind(Ii'i(vidual CanvUaseS SIIO\fl It the exiil)itioll of...

Music \W'igs on the Green WHE'N virtuoso.s fall out, be then singers, instrumentalists or conductors, there is sure to be fun for the public and profit for the impresarios....

COUNTRY LIFE Preserving the Coast From October 8th to 11th the Council for the Preservation of Rural England arc holding a conference at Torquay to discuss the preservation of...

The Need We Have. Irish and Oirish By A. Hamilton Gibbs. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.) I Am Death. By Rearden Connor. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. Id.) Sugarhouse Entry. By Richard Hayward....

THE KING GEORGE MEMORIAL [To the Editor of Tln, SPECTATOR.] SIR,-In your last issue " Janus questioned why the King George Memorial Appeal has met with such a moderate...

CONDITIONS IN SOUTH WALES [To thle Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Is it significant that in your issue of September 18th two articles, " Communism in South W\ales " and "...

THE BODLEY HEAD [T'o the Editor of T'lmE SPEXTATOR.1 SIR,- Mr. Artlhtur Wauglh pays mc some -ery lhandsome comp)limenlts in his review of my b)ook on Jolhn Lane. I amli very...

Locking the Stable Door The futture historian1 11 nil' Well note vithI sufl rise that it vas not till October, 19:36, that towil-l)lannill.e in the (City of' London reachled...

The Film and the Mind The fourth European Mental Ilgicnic Reunion, whlich has been held in London this week, ha(I an interesting discussion at its opening session on the...

Germany's Isolation In two speeches this week Herr Hitler has emphasised Germany's economic and spiritual isolation. In the first, on Sunday, at Germany's national harvest...

Arrcst of Karl Radek During the trial of Zinovieff and Kanmeneff there were already rumours of the arrest of Karl Radek. the famous Soviet writer and one of the woild's...

Non-Collegiate Students During mnany ycars past much has been done to give the non-collegiate mnale undergraduates at Oxford (first. admitted in 1868) some of the adlvantares...

CHRISTIANITY AND COMMUNISM: H. THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION By the VERY REV. W. R. INGE, D.D. [The next article in this series will be by Mr. John Strachey, on " The Claims of...

Farewell to Rousseau, a Critique of Liberal Democracy. Gentlemanly Fascism By Claud Sutton. With an introduction by the Very Rev. W., R. Inge. (Christoplhers. 7s. 6d.) T}iIs...

Reaction to Conquest. Effects of Contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. Change in Africa By Monica Hunter, M.A., Ph.D. With a preface by J. C. Smuts. (Oxford...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK U.7NDERSTAND that the Government have in conteml)lation the suspension, in the forthcoming session, Of the right of private Members to ballot for leave...

The World My Oyster. Tough Guys By David Wynn. (Rieh anti Cowan. 12s. 6d.) World Stowaway. By J. B. Roberts. (Routledge. l0s. 6d.) Sentenced to Adventure. By Serge Zolo....

loons, Myths and Man. Moonshine H. S. Bellamy. (Faber and Faber. is. 6d. Tmii: lharv-est miioon is w^ith us, to shine on a queer sheaf of palers, reaped in part from the...

I Took Off My Tie. East of Aldgate By Hugh Alassingliam. (Heinernain. 7s. 6d.) You- can make yourself an authority on the poor in thle mass. consider them as problems, help...

GERMANY AND THE BALKANS Commonwealth and Foreign By F. ELWYN JONES DR. SCIIACIIT has consistently pulrsued the theory that economic penetration must come before political...

Thoughts Before Olympia Motoring Tillwy are, or should be, properly grave. Buying a car is a very serious matter, and in that the Show tends more and more, year after year, to...

UNKNOWXTN LIBERIA \NNVi have received a complaint from the solicitors for Mr. Harry- J. Greenwall and Mr. Roland Wild, the authors of the reCelitlyl pull)lished book entitled -...

Gone with the Wind. Fiction By WILLIAM PLONIER By Alargarct Mitchell. (Alacmillan. lOs. 6d.) The Calf of Paper. By Sholem Asch. Translated by Edwin and Willa Muir....

The October Magazines Loni) LOTHIIAN, diseussing " Collective Secuirity or Monroe System ? " in the ('ontemporary. declares that the Leagyue must always fail, so long as it is...

Asquith. The Last Liberal Bv R. B. AMcCallurm. (Duckworth. 2a..) 'J'Tiis vivid and penetrating monograph -will bring Asquith to life for the first time for many who never...

Gladstone of Hawarden. Henry Gladstone Be.- Ivor Thiomiias. (John Mlurray. 7s. 6d.) MR. Ti1oi%1As has written a vigorous and interesting little book on the career of...

Ordeal by Hunger. Homo Sapiens at Bay By George R. Stewart. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) TuE terrible but fascinating story of this book is briefly told. In 1846 a band of some eighty...

The Hundred Years. The Colour of Events B1g Philip Cuedlalla. (Hodder and StoughtoI.I 12s. Gd.) Airioucii it is written as a sequence of pictures, Mr. Guedalla's book is a...

William Morris, Artist, Writer and Socialist. Idle Singer - 1B- Ma:- Morris. (BasiI lBlack-well. 52s. 6d.) Tills, two volumnes are a memorial to a vcry great man, and a...

SOUTH TO SAMARKAND [To the Editor of Tmiii SPECTATOR.] Sit,-- ith reference to Mr. Peter Fleming's review of my )0ook, South to Samarkand, in which he asserts that he was in...

Crise de Fatalisme [D'un correspondant parisien] C'EST avec resignation que les Frane^ais, pour la plupart, ont app)ris qu'il fallait alligner " le franc. Us comprirent vite...

IS THE POUND STABILISED? By H. V. HODSON _ is remarkable how quickly " currency alignment " has rel)Iaced " stabilisation " in the vocabulary of monctaryv debate. As the...

GENEVA HARVEST By WILSON HARRIS Ge&n ca, Oct. 6t1,. .A N observation n adc b- Mr. Hi'. S. lMorrison (who has already created a- eonsi(derable position at Geneva) regar(ling...

Investment and Financial Notes MARKETS AND DE'.VALUATION. EVENTS in the Stock Exchange have proved any remaining fears of profound immediate disturbance from the devalhatioi...

THE TOO MUCH PROMISED LAND By ROSITA FORBES ATTLEGROU'ND of Europe andl Asia, sacred to the world's three greatest faiths, P'alestinC to(ldw is threatened with martial law....

George Moore BOOKS OF THE DAY-- By D. S. MacCOLL Tiiis is the true story of an Ugly Duckling. When Moore gave up the hope of becoming a painter, which had taken him to Paris,...

Steam Packet. Short Stories By David Mathew. (Longmans. 6s.) The Things Men Do. By Rhys Davies. (Heinemanm. 7s. 6d.) A Chaste Polygamy. By Edward Mather. (MIethuen. 7s. 6d.)...

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George and Sarah Green. A Wordsworthian Narrative A Narrative by Dorothy Words- worth. Edited by E. (le Selincourt. (Clarendon Press. 5s.) GEORMGE and Sarah Green were poor...