12 MAY 1933, page 6

I Have Been Trying To Puzzle Out Lord Eustace Percy's

suggestion that "the increase in the number of families is due to the simple arithmetical .fact that there are more women in the reproductive age-group than ever before." This......

Slavery : The Uncompleted Task O Ne Hundred Years Ago Next

July Fowell Buxton was able to convey to his dying colleague, William Wilberforce, the welcome assurance that victory was about to crown their efforts—and on July 29th Wilber-......

I Have Seldom Seen Less Excitement At A Mass Meeting

in Hyde Park than appeared at the May demonstration organized by the Labour movement last Sunday. Every- thing was very orderly, even among the Communist elements which marched......

A Speetator's Notebook

T HE chances of Mr. Gandhi's surviving his twenty-one days' fast seem on the face of it small. It is true that the Mahatma fasted for that period in 1924, in the hope (which was......

Diogenes' Daughter : "colonel's Widow Will Train...

world-famous kennel. Moderate terms. Live as family."—The Times, May 6th. JA-NUS.......

Every Poet, In My Opinion, Ought To Do As Professor

A. E. Housman has just done, and tell us how he wrote his poetry. The philosophers might avoid a lot of wasteful speculation if they had before them the actual evidence of all......

Sir John Simon Told The House Of Commons He Had

spoken quite frankly to Dr. Rosenberg. So, evidently, did Lady Oxford, judging by her account in the News-Chronicle of her interview with Herr Hitler's envoy. As to the ethics......