many others, the conflict in Germany is very like the struggle for freedom in England in the seventeenth century. There is the same suppression of free speech and writing which...

T HE outcome of the Stresa conversations is awaited with equal anxiety in this country and France, Italy, Russia and. Germany, but the delegates themselves are looking first and...

give them a clear two-thirds majority, raised their total from 38 to 44, advancing their vote from 109,000 to 139,000. On the other side; the Socialists actually increased their...

not to be disguised. They were not of any ordinary or routine character. They need not have taken place at all. There was a _comfortable Nazi majority in the Diet, but it fell...

on a later page Sir Percy Jackion calls attention to the immediate problems of the Land Settlement Agsociation, whose programme he explained at a meeting at the House of Commons...

The . Departmental Committee on Garden Cities and Satellite Towns,- appointed nearly four years ago, has at length issued. its report. . It recommends the establish- ment of a...

Japanese Foreign Office was delivering a surprising attack on this country, on the strength of the debate on China in the House of Lords, last week, in China itself General...

hoped that the Government will have the courage to accept and act on the findings of the majority report of the Greene Committee on the Sugar Industry, which was published on...

week the House of Lords has debated measures affecting its own constitution or powers. Lord Rockley's Bill was a very modest: and innocuous one providing for the creation of a...

The fight over the India Bill has taken on a new liveli- ness this week. Mr. Churchill's motion to report progress, following on " the revelations " of the Morning Post with...

has a fighting chance of destroying the Bill. He looks forward to another five months before it can become law and contends that much may happen in that time. Even if the Bill...

Open-Air Exhibition opened at the Imperial Institute last Monday affords -further evidence, of which there is no lack of demonstration in all parts of Britain, of the popularity...

for the scientific investigation of crime was opened at Hendon by the Home Secretary. The day before appeared Lord Trenchard's annual report, in which he commented on the fact...

examination of Sir John Simon by the House of Commons, -when, on Tuesday. he gave the results of the conversations abroad, was an impressive affair. It showed members of...

Free Church Council meetings this week followed aptly on the address delivered before the Council by Mr. Baldwin on the previous evening on the condition of Europe. Dr. Norwood...

A DDRESSING the House of Commons on the eve of his departure for Stresa the Foreign Secretary emphasized the fact that he and the Prime Minister were going to that conference...

A LL over the country elaborate preparations have, been made for the celebration of the Jubilee, though in many places the plans still admit of modifica- tions or additions. The...

down a man and killed him because her eyes were glued on the speedometer conveys a very necessary warning. Every driver, I suppose, in a 80-mile limit tries to keep one eye on...

Mr. Hugh Walpole's novel The Cathedral has produced a counter suggestion that The Cathedral is in fact based on Durham. I believe it is based on both, but I 'men- tioned only...

general acceptance of a National Government, it is mere affectation to assume that parties are obliterated, and for this country to have at what is perhaps the most important...

I T is a serious matter that both Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Eden should have • been absent from the prolonged and all-important Cabinet meeting on Monday. In the case of Mr. Eden...

radio priest, lately, particularly since he was given credit for securing the defeat df the proposal for America's entry into the World Court by one of his famous Sfinday-...

renunciation of Christianity will the German people achieve the unity which it needs and Which would have saved it in the trying days of 1918." — General Ludendorff last Sunday....

By GEOFFREY CROWTHER T HE Senior Official Receiver has been as prompt and thorough in his investigation of the pepper crash as Mr. Runcirnan promised he would be. His remarks...

• By E. F. BENSON rE East India Company had - been granted their Charter by Queen Elizabeth on the last day of the sixteenth 'century, but it was not till after the Mutiny, in...

By E. E. D. TOMLIN (No. 3 In the Oxford Boat) A S we stepped ashore from the water-logged Oxford Boat last Saturday afternoon, a thought similar to that which prompted a...

By W. L. MIDDLETON I T seems now to be pretty generally recognized in England that there are limits beyond which the economic self-devolopment so optimistically begun in 1931...

By G. C. B. COTTERELL P ASSIONATELY rages the sporadic guerilla between the pacific detractors of the Officers Training Corps and its bellicose supporters ; between those who...

By J. VIJAYA-TUNGA I T must not be supposed for a moment that we in our village are out of touch with Civilization. Civiliza- tion passes our way quite often, only it does not...

By ROSE MACAULAY M R. ST. JOHN ERVINE has been complaining that people do not buy enough new books, that is to say, books by living writers. " The old ambition to possess some...

and charming city has certain rural attractions that must be peculiar to it. A query reached me the other day about a bird with a long beak seen diving almost to the ground. It...

A Battle of Birds A very strange story has been reported by journalists in California ; and qveries about its authenticity reach me from a Spectator reader resident there. It is...

A botanist, struck by the frequent allusions to the wild daffodil, has made special journeys in search of it in many parts of England, and come to two conclusions. One is that...

Planning England Those who are most effectively busy both with the preser- vation of rural England and the ordered development of urban England have made the regional and the...

doubtful claims of trees and flowers to native birth. It is the fashion to deny that even the elm (of which there are a great number of sorts) is a British tree. The chief...

Winter Visitors So far the disappearances of birds have been more- in evidence in England than their appearances. A special tour of bird inspection was made the other day in...

Blackthorn Winter * Sudden winter, still called blackthorn winter in country places, seems to have treated different gardens very differently. According to laments in some of...

the way to the most lonely farmhouse I ever visited—no road even approaches it—I walked through a meadow dotted with Lent lilies that cer- tainly looked as natural as possible....

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week" paragraphs. Signed...

SIR,—Your comparison of Nazi atrocities with what you are pleased to call " the horrors perpetrated in Russia after the Lenin-Trotsky revolution " cannot be allowed to pass un-...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Siu,—The work which the Land Settlement Association was set up' to do for the unemployed is now well under way. Thanks to the generosity of Mr....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In case any other of your readers should have mis- understood my letter as completely as Mr. Evans has, with your permission I will...

your article entitled " 1914 and 1935," with Mr. Elwyn Bevan's warning against the horrid consequences of entering into a system of collective security with Soviet Russia. But...

per se a Christian nation is a persistent delusion which is at the bottom of all the muddled thinking on the subject of what a Christian's duty is towards this country going to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIII,—My colleague upon the Senate of the University of London for nearly thirty years, the distinguished Rector of St. Michael Royal, Canon...

[To the Editor of THE gPECTATOR.] SIR,—Professor J. H. Jones conducts a masterly rearguard action in defence of the banks, first enlists our sympathies by tactfully admitting...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Rev. P. M. Gedge in your issue of April 5th challenges me by saying that the analogy between rearma- ment and an increase of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,--May I attempt to correct two slight misunderstandings in Mr. Powys Greenwood's article ? He says : " And as for the cancellation of bank...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—That your gentle contributor, Janus, should be per- plexed by the existence of the Bread campaign is not astonishing in view of his...

Sta,—The Treasurer of the " University of London Graduates' Association " now comes forward with the somewhat unique argument that he and his colleagues are of such eminence •...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Miss Charlotte Cameron bases her advocacy of the restoration of the former German Colonies on the fact that she travelled through all of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of April 5th, you comment upon a " check " which the- " Green Belt " policy of the. London County Council has encountered in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Janus writes in " A Spectator's Notebook," in your issue of April 5th, that he found the doors of Hereford Cathedral- locked on a recent...

By BONAMY DOBREE IT is time for original documents to be made easily available, so that we, the general public, can get our information at first hand. No history without bias is...

The Essentials of Parliamentary Democracy. By R. Bassett. (Macmillan. is. 6d.) RARELY, indeed, does one meet a book on pblitics which commands such immediate intellectual assent...

EVERY political candidate, Conservative or Liberal, knows the Socialist poser that begins—" Seeing that the causes of war are economic, do you not think that there can never be...

The Letters of Napoleon to Marie LOuise. With a commentary by Charles de la Ronciere• and- an- Introduction by Philip Guedalla: (Hutchinson. 10s. Oci.) TILE frontispiece of one...

Science : A New Outline. By J. W. N. Sullivan. (Nelson. 5s.) MR. SULLIVAN is a practised hand at setting out the fruits of scientific knowledge in a concise and lucid form for...

Africa Dances. By Geoffrey Corer. (Faber and Faber. 15s.) MR. GonEa, in company with the negro dancer, Feral Benga, motored last year through parts of French Guinea, the Ivory...

Saints, Sinners, and Beechers. By Lyman Beecher Stowe. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. Hs. 6d.) A TITLE, like a woman, should be simplex mundiliis, plain in its neatness. This book...

The Dramatic Art of La Compagnie des Quinze. By 'Phyllis Aykroyd. (The Scholartis Press. 2s. Miss AYKROYD'S object-in this essay is to provide " a strai g ht- forward...

Poems 1914 - 1934. By Herbert Read. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) IF the reader finds difficulty in understanding Mr. Read's poems, it is not because of their few obscurities, but...

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere. By P. G. Wodehouse. (Jenkins. 7s. 6d.) A GOOD many admirers of the Jeeves and Blandings sagas prefer what the Master himself has called " the...

By WILLIAM PLOMER disaster that ought never to have happened, and what chances money . . _ during and after the War, that it lacks that element of name." .. , • • is Dr....

is an interesting, if somewhat wrong-headed little book (Cambridge Univ. Press. 7s. M.). To begin with, it is mis- entitled : it .does not. really deal with the relations or re-...

• By Dame Janet Campbell Dame Janet Campbell, who was forrrierly Senior Medical Officer for Maternity and Child . Welfare to the Ministry of Health, is one of the most...

Codes Peace and the Queenes - (Oxford University Press, 8s. 6d.) is sub-titled " Vicissitudes of a House, 1539-1615." It is a book that no doubt was hard to compile and is...

By Ernest Hambloch His Majeity the President (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) is a study of the disastrous effects of presidentialist government in the republics of South America. Mr....

FRANCE IN DANGER By Andre Tardieu M. Andre Tardieu has three times been Prime Minister of France, and may hold the post again, though for the moment, owing partly to...

By R.. F. Rattray This is a pedestrian account (Duckworth, 5s.) of the main events of Butler's life, of the books he wrote, and how he came to write them. It contains no new...

George Sand at Nohant she spoke of him as a Milton jeune et voyageant. If she referred to his character rather than his poetic gifts her comparison was fairly apt. Milton,...

(Hurst and Blackett, 12s. 6d.) is a sixteen- year-old German boy's diary of eighteen months' exploring in the Ainaionian jungle. The editor, Mr. Howard Taubman (who is,...

Mr. Wilenski has just produced a new, cheaper and entirely revised edition of his one important contribution to criticism, The Modern Movement in Art (Faber, 8s. 6d.). In this...

at last been presented at a moderate price with an adequate series of reproductions of the frescoes of Diego Rivera. The volume, Portrait of America (Allen and Unwin, 12s. 6d.),...

few years none has had a more sudden success than inde- pendent front-wheel suspension. I use the word sudden and not swift. For a good many years various makers have been...

AMONG the brochures issued by Ship- ping companies this year it would be difficult to find any more interestingly informatiVe than the Canadian Pacific Guide to Cruises and the...

It is not every holiday-maker whb cares for the ordinary sea-cruise, since it is impos- sible when cruising to stay at any place for more than a few hours, however fasci- nating...

The Norwegian Fjords season will be here in another few weeks and the usual number of cruises to the fjords seems inevitable. Scotland's fjords, miniature of course in...

the new Bath Bulletin refers to as the " outstanding event of the Bath spring season," viz., a festival of Contemporary Arts, will be held from April 24th to May 8th. Music,...

A Word on Currencies KNOWING how widely The Spectator is read throughout the United States of-America, I would like, in this very brief article, to say one - word with regard...

The Report of the Ford Motor Company for last year cceded the best expectations. The profit, before providing (Continued on page 640.) Financial Notes - (Continued from page...

CHEERYCL MARKETS. IN spite of unsettled international politics, and notwith- standing—or perhaps I should say because of—the approaching Budget, markets have displayed a...

The latest Report of the Army and Navy Stores is an en- couraging one. There has been a quiet, steady rise in earning power during the last 'three years, the gross profit for...

The latest Annual Report of the Stock Exchange is the best presented for many years past. The total receipts for the year came to £473,766, being an increase of £21,269 on the...

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES. The Report of this most important industrial undertaking, revealing as it does the position of the manifold industries in which the Company is...

Accompanying the Report the directors put forward a plan for the unification of the Ordinary and Deferred capital. Under this plan it is suggested that a holder of Deferred...

The latest Report of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society is an excellent one. Its good bonus record increas- ingly attracts new business, which last year exceeded...

ASSOCLkTED ELECTRICAL. The satisfactory Report of the Associated Electrical In- dustries has been followed by a very cheerful speech at the annual meeting by the Chairman, Sir...

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THE SPECTATOR," APRIL 11TH, 1835. The struggle of the Tory Ministers against the hostile majority of the House of Commons was brought to a close on Wednesday. Lord John...