W E are a tolerant people, and the violence of the German Press and the bellicose rhetoric of speakers like Field- Marshal Goering, Dr. Goebbels, and Herr Hitler himself; are...

von Rath, in Paris by a 17-year-old Polish Jew is deplored by all reasonable men. Political assassination is a crime, and a futile crime ; but the Nazis, with the assassinations...

by the New York Times when in commenting on the arrangements for the visit of the King and Queen to the United States next year, announced in the Speech from the Throne on...

Elections in the United States is to bring back the Republican Party to national politics as an effective force. It is not within sight of being a dominating force ; with a...

completed his survey of France's finances and, in co-operation with M. Daladier, is drawing up the financial decrees which are to be promulgated next week. The period of the...

the Republican positions on the Ebro appears at length to have achieved considerable success. This week the insurgents occupied Mora de Ebro, a key position on the right bank ;...

which Italy is imposing is only the continuation of recent fiscal policy. In October last year a ro per cent. tax on the capital of joint-stock companies (other than banks),...

Polish Seym on Sunday may be regarded as satisfactory or unsatisfactory according to the point of view. Almost everywhere only one list of candidates, the Government's list, was...

easy one. Yet, as Mr. Attlee pointed out, it is every year carried out with distinction. Mr. Hely-Hutchinson, who came in last year for Hastings and who had previously confined...

still uses them with unsurpassed pungency and effective- ness. The main theme of his speech was the Government's neglect of Russia. Disarmament was the test of any arrange- ment...

the most part confined to foreign affairs. Sir Stafford Cripps demonstrated once again that he is the most formidable critic on the Labour front bench. He has always the...

reassembled for the new session on the day after the Dartford election, and the Labour Opposition looked decidedly mare cheerful than was the case last week. The phenomenal...

to the demands of rearmament, "we may have to make inroads on the social services," seemed to have lost its significance after his own repudiation of it and the Prime Minister's...

continent, published this week and reviewed on another page of The Spectator by a leading African administrator, Sir Donald Cameron, Lord Halley has emphasised the need for...

optimistic about the trade outlook, and since at the moment optimism is at a premium, it is satisfactory to find that in this case it is not belied by the announcement that the...

of the first Armistice Day, as of all before it, is the customary two-minutes' silence. Most of those whose province it is to speak or write on Armistice Day of 1938 would...

W HEN Lord Peel's Commission on Palestine reported last year, it unanimously recommended the partition of a country equal in size to Wales between the Arabs, the Jews, and the...

TT is a mistake to judge by-elections (or any other election for that matter) on their face-value. Take, for example, Oxford and Dartford. The Oxford result was generally hailed...

By JOHN GRIERSON [Mr. Grierson, who was head successively of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit and the Post Office Fihn Unit, may be regarded as the creator of the...

By SIR NORMAN ANGELL [This is the fifth of a series of articles on British Foreign Policy as it must be framed in the situation created by the Munich Agreement; every writer is...

By V. A. POPE At Sea. October 29th B ETWEEN September r4th, when no hint of Mr. Chamberlain's first visit to Herr Hitler had yet been heard, and October zoth, when the danger...

By S. C. LESLIE [This is the third of a series of four articles discussing the factors which make British public opinion what it is] T HE question we are asking is whether it...

By ERNEST BARKER [The general subject of Dr. Barker's third article is My Political Duty"] N EXT to the claims of the family and our duties to the family—next not in the sense...

By CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS I N his new and brilliant book, The Culture of Cities, to which I gratefully acknowledge myself indebted for a fresh and vivid insight into the...

Commonwealth and Foreign By MARGERY PERHAM ON November 3rd the Duke of Gloucester cut out a sod on Makerere hill which stands near Kampala in Uganda. The ceremony, which was...

"You Can't Take It With You." At the Gaumont—" There Goes My Heart." At the London Pavilion IT is really what we should have expected from Frank Capra, whose portrait hangs...

STAGE AND SCREEN The Callithumpian Concert I THANK thee, Mr. Scholes, for teaching me that word. It fits my purpose better than its French equivalent, Charivari, or its...

The National Book Fair THE National Book Fair is being held this year at Earl's Court, and on the whole the move from its earlier haunts seems justified. Transport there by...

Scissors and Paste THE sight of a whole exhibition devoted to collages and montages, such as that now on view at Guggenheim jeune, forces into the foreground of the critic's...

November or May? Summer warmth in the presence of a low sun continues to give us more and more untimely pictures. The bees swarm out of the hive and find a good supply of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a...

is now nearly two months since Mr. Chamberlain returned from Munich. At the moment of writing the French Press of all opinions suspects the intentions of our Government today...

Sta,—In the outspoken series of articles which you are publishing under the above heading, none has interested me as an old Liberal more than that of the Earl of Lytton. He sums...

point made by La iy Violet Bonham- Carter in your issue of November 4th as soon as I saw the article in print. Had I seen it in proof I should have made it clear that" forty...

have been an interested backstage admirer of Sir Henry Page Croft's enthusiasm and sincerity in promoting a scheme for placing to,000 British families on the land in British...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Mr. W. T. Wells' excellent letter shows that there are still Englishmen who believe in Sea Power and who are not hypnotised by the Air...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sm,—In his reference to the Prime Minister's astonishing remarks about nest-fouling " Janus "seems to me unnecessarily charitable. It is true...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR] Sza,—May I be allowed some little space to reply to Mr. Vowles's letter in your issue of the 4th instant, in which he comments on mine on the...

spokesmen are now taking the line that Germany's claim to the Sudetenland was just, and that therefore we should not have been justified in opposing it. It is pertinent to ask...

vowed to do his utmost to " strengthen the great friendship existing between the two island Empires." (The world during the last few years has been liberally supplied with the...

Snt,—I was interested to see your comments on the B.B.C. foreign broadcasts, in your issue of October 7th. May I venture to say that, having been one of those who urged the...

factor that has gone too little noticed in the Palestine . situation seems to me to call for some attention. Owing to the almost complete dependence of the Arab population on...

[Von einem deutichen Korrespondenten] .ER war ein Meister, der Meister. • Schon seine iiussere Gestalt und Erscheinung war vollig zeitlos. Vielleicht nur ver- gleichbar jenen...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By A. L. ROWSE VAIUOUS happenings of late—the centenary of the Public Record Office this summer, the distinguished party held there a few days ago by the...

MR. SPENDER'S liberalism belongs to the period before the Liberal Party—once the party of Mr. Gladstone handed over its soul, and, for that matter, its body, to Mr. Lloyd...

Tim survey, of which we have the results in this volume, was undertaken by Lord Hailey as Director ; financed by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, later supplemented by the...

News of the French. By Montgomery Belgion. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) WHEN a man who has lived twenty-two years in France pro- duces a book about the country, it is surprising...

This study of local government is based both on extensive research into documentary material relating to the past and present of Johannesburg and on personal observation of the...

M. DE BASILY is a former diplomat of the Tsarist regime who has been living since the revolution as an émigré in Paris. His study of Soviet Russia is a careful piece of work,...

THE triple thinkers, it is Flaubert's suggestive phrase, are the great artists. It may be meant to convey that the artist thinks in three dimensions, so that his work does not...

SIR HENRY WorroN did the Queen of Bohemia an ill service when he wrote his celebrated lines to her; Palgrave did her a worse one when he put them in the Golden Treasury. Few...

History and the Gospel. By C. H. Dodd. (Nisbet. 6s.) THERE is an irritatin g question which children sometimes ask you when you tell them a story, and they seem to attach g...

The Spirit of India. By W. J. Grant. (Batsford. sos. 6d.) British Social Life in India. By Dennis Kincaid. (Roudedge. Iss.) ALTHOUGH India is one of the strangest and most...

By FORREST REID Flying Colours. By C. S. Forester. (Michael Joseph. 7s. 6d.) The Midas Touch. By Margaret Kennedy. (CasselL 85. 6d.) THE stories reprinted now under the title...

This biography (Harrap, I2S. 6d.) of the famous hotelier Cesar Ritz, by his wife, is interesting not only as a success story but as a sort of footnote to the social history of...

of the picturesque in his compilation of connexions grave (and less grave) between Africa and the United States (Routledge, I5s.). The common Dutch origin of New York and the...

search of reminiscences about Yeats, Lady Gregory and other early figures of the Irish literary movement will be disappointed. They are touched on only incidentally, and the...

and Stoughton, 9s. 6d.) can be warmly commended. It is based, he says, on a series of lectures that he gave at his school, and this goes far to explain its easy narrative style...

CURRENT LITERATURE By James Agate Few living authors have dignified their careers with three volumes of reminiscence ; if the omens are read aright, none will be able to rival...

"There but for the grace of God goes John Bradford " might be the text of Mr. Crawford's thoughtful and interesting book on crime and punishment (Arthur Barker, los. 6d.). In...

Mrs. Grantham's "Life and Times of Prince Henry of Prussia", 5726-1802 (John Lane, refs. 6d.) is a discursive book in which the sorry hero is often eclipsed by the" tasteless...

IF proof is needed that City sentiment is getting better and the market's hide correspondingly tougher, one need only consider this week's reactions to Herr Hitler's speeches at...

OCTOBER - UNEMPLOYMENT ONCE again the monthly unemployment figures are inconclusive. The decline of 17,000 to 1,781,000 in the total live register is less than the seasonal...

By ZENO [A prize of a Book Token for one guine -Jill be given to the sender of the first ccmut solution of this week's crossword puzzl be opened. Envelopes should be marked...

The winner of Crossword No. 319 is Mrs. 10 Manor Court, Aylmer Road, Highgate, N.2. L. Locke,