16 JANUARY 1932, page 3

The Argentine's Claims

The Argentine Republic is not letting her interests be lost sight of when Dominion. Preferences on its two principal exports, wheat and meat, are in the air. And the Argentine......

Next Week's " Spectator "

Among the contents of next week's Spectator will be articles by Signor Virginio Gayda, Editor of the Giornale on " Italy and Disarmament," by Miss E. G Somerville on conditions......

Broadcasting The Icing's English The Influence Of The...

spoken English should be considerable, but has not so far been submitted to a definite test. Now, however, eighty boys in London elementary schools have had gramophone records......

Scandinavian Contacts The Foreign Ministers Of The Three...

who have been meeting in the past week at 'Copenhagen, have had plenty of material for conversation. Reparations hit a great deal more than the country that pays (or fails to......

Firm Rule In Spain The Spanish Premier, Don Manuel Azafia,

has strengthened his position by showing that he means to rule, deferring neither to reactionary generals nor to fanatical Communists. The Civil Guard, that remarkable......

Signs In The Heavens The Volume Of Protest Evoked By

the proposal to use the night-sky as a screen for the new luminous advertise- ments devised by Major Savage is remarkable, as the correspondence columns of The Times testify.......

Nationalism And Art

The " shut them all out " clamour applies indiscrimi- nately to foreign musicians as to foreign musical-boxes, and the Ministry of Labour is undecided what to do about it. There......