17 SEPTEMBER 1932, page 3

Catalan Home Rule The Catalans Struggling For Freedom...

were in Queen Anne's reign supported by our Whigs and deserted by our Tories. To-day we can all agree in hoping that the Catalan Statute, passed by the Cortes last week and......

Maternal Mortality Sir George Newman, The Chief Medical...

the Ministry of Health, is on the whole encouraging in his annual report, except in regard to maternal mortality. In the last half-century the death-rate has fallen from 21 to......

Opera In England Lovers Of Opera Have So Often Been

disappointed by the failure of schemes for popularizing this form of art in England that they may well view with some reserve the Daily Telegraph's confident announcement that......

Sound Finance The Repayment Of The Last Instalment Of The

total sum of £130,000,000 borrowed a year ago from the United States and France is evidence to the world of the sound- ness of British finances, particularly since a right of......

Democracy In South Africa It Is Curious To Find General

Hertzog telling the old Stellenbosch students that democracy is played out in Europe, but will make its last stand in South Africa. Some of us at times have wondered whether his......

The Editorship Of Tile' " Spectator."

Mr. H. Wilson Harris has been appointed Editor of the " Spectator." Sir Evelyn Wrench, as chief proprietor, remains Chairman of the Company, and, while relinquishing active......