6 AUGUST 1937, page 6

The Post-mortem On ' Endeavour Ii ' Is In Full

swing, though in fact the patient is-not quite dead yet. What is wrong with the British yacht, or right with the American, that the differ- ence between the two should be so......

* * * * Lord Eustace Percy's Decision To Resign

his seat at Hastings means, it must be assumed, his definite abandonment of a political career. It is a pity, for he is one of the most valuable of the Government's back-bench......

We Know Rather Too Little About The Causes And Incidence

of suicide. According to the new Home Office Criminal Statistics there were 5,156 suicides in England and Wales in 1935, or 33o fewer than in 1934. That may be accounted for to......

" Christian General " Means In China Only One Man,

Feng Yu-hsiang, but it may with some reason be contended that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is both a better general and a better Christian. In an address he gave earlier this year at......

A Spectator's Notebook

"W HO drives fat oxen shouldhimself be fat." It does not necessarily follow apparently that who drives his subordinates into matrimony need himself be married. Not in Germany at......

Speculation As To The Future Of The Morning Post, Flaw

that Lord Camrose has bought it, has been given a little stimulus by the discovery that a company was registered last year, with the Morning Post and the editor of the Morning......

The " Vote For The Devil " Anecdote Goes Back,

it appears, a good eighty years beyond the date when (as I mentioned last week) it was related by Laurence Oliphant to a 'friend then standing for a Scottish constituency. In......

A National Theatre At Last ?

T HE movement for the creation of a National Theatre is brought one stage nearer its goal by the pur- chase of a site, hitherto Crown property, opposite the Victoria and Albert......