13 MAY 1938, page 6

A Paragraph From Dr. Seton - Watson's New Book, Britain...

Dictators, which is, I believe, reviewed on a later page of this issue, is worth quotation here. It relates to the profits from Mein Kampf. " When I bought my copy in 1933,"......

With All The Talk About Foreign Policy The Average Citizen

has not much beyond the public speeches of politicians and leading articles in the papers to help him shape his views. A good many average citizens therefore may like to have......

French Ministers, It Appears, Are Beginning To Concern...

preparations for the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth to Paris next month. They will be under no temptation, I hope, to try to emulate the recent celebrations in Rome.......

* * * * When The Book Of A Pageant

is in the hands of Mr. E. M. Forster and the music in those of Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams the result is likely to be something it will be worth making a considerable journey to......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE reform of the House of Lords was declared an urgent matter by Mr. Asquith in 1909, and there is every sign that it will be still urgent and unaccomplished in 199o. But even......

Notes Of Two Recent Conversations On China. The First Was

with a very competent and well-informed Chinese now in Europe. " Are you going to be able to hold Soochow (the object of all the recent fighting in Shantung) ? " I asked him. "......

Not Much News Except Censored News Can Come Out Of

Vienna nowadays, but an instructive light on conditions there is thrown by a resolution, published in a Swiss paper, carried at a meeting of Austrian Nazis called to protest at......

The Scots And The Sabbath T He Empire Exhibition At Glasgow

was shut last Sunday, the first Sunday after its official opening, and if present arrangements hold will remain shut on all the remaining Sundays of its existence. The decision......