22 FEBRUARY 1935, page 6

The Appointment Of Dame, Rachel Crowdy To The New Royal

Commission on the Traffic in Arms has a special appropriateness which may not be immediately apparent. Dame Rachel was for twelve years head of the section of the League of......

A Rather Interesting Bit Of Cabinet Inner History Emerges...

Sir Austen Chamberlain's article on the Air Pact negotiations in Wednesday's Daily Telegraph. Sir Austen quotes a passage which he describes as "words written by the late Lord......

Cambridge Opinion, I Gather, Is Considerably Divided...

of Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn for the Parliamentary vacancy, and I hear a good deal of regret expressed that there seems likely to be no contest. There is no doubt about Mr.......

* * * * . Like Everyone Else, I Suppose,

I have paid my money to see that incredible play Young England, which is now in the. third phase (Victoria Palace, Kingsway, Daly's) of a career that looks like being endless.......

A Spectator's Notebook

A CURIOUS item of lobby-gossip reaches me from Westminster, and I quote it simply as a record of what some M.P.'s are saying—making no claim for it be- yond that. The latest "......

Nothing, I Suppose, That Has Happened Under The Nazi Regime

in Germany has aroused feelings of greater repul- sion in this country than the beheading of two women in Berlin on Monday. And for an accumulation of reasons. We do not inffict......

Noted In Silence, " I Am Not Going - Co Allow Questions

which affect the British .Empire."---Mr. Justice A.vory. JANUS,......

A School For Planners

P LANNING in the modem sense of the term—whether .1 it be town-planning, or transport-planning, or economic planning—deMands much more than the setting down on Paper of ideal......

4.. * * I Am Very Glad To Hear That

Mr. H. W, Nevinsoff, who is, among other' things, a, frequent and Valued contributor to The Spectator—is to be given an honorary Litt.D. by Dublin University i It is a......