A LL Germany is awaiting the meeting of the Reichstag summoned for today (July 13th) for " the reception of a government declaration " which it is presumed will be made by Herr...

the speech of Herr Hitler's deputy, Herr Hess, which was not addressed to the German public, but primarily to France. The significance of his utterance has been more appreciated...

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to foster to the utmost the idea of the isolation of Germany in an unfriendly world. The British Government is bent upon taking no steps which could give colour to the idea that...

is to open next Wednesday, is the largest under-water road-tunnel in the world. Its length considerably exceeds two miles, and its width allows for four lines of traffic...

been examining the problem of national housing, now presents its final report in support of the proposal to set up a statutory Housing Commission to organize building over the...

of last week entailed a death-roll of six and about 60 cases of more or less serious injury, and was only quelled after three days' disturbance and a certain amount of firing....

an increase of 24,000 over those for May. How far is it merely seasonal ? Most (though not all) of the worsening has been in trades which are normally stack at this time of...

the course of the debate in the House of Commons on shipping that the Govern- ment intends at any cost to defend the Empire trade routes against unfair foreign competition. The...

of the Board has been surprised at the opposition to the proposal that owners should send their older and less efficient tonnage to the shipbreakers and that the Government...

Walter Elliot's agricultural policy. Before going to press we have before us Mr. Elliot's later statement in which he confirms the expectation that his plan will be to put a...

he has recovered his health and his confi- dence. He made unusually brilliant use of the presenta- tion of his estimates to explain the philosophy of his policy, and members...

which under the chairmanship of Lord Redesdale has been examining the South Downs Preservation Bill, has come down on the side of the Brighton Corporation in the controversy...

from the Oxford Preservation Trust and the Cambridge Preservation Society on the subject of ribbon develop- ment, does not seem to have gone beyond platitudes in expressing his...

writes : Parliament has had a busy week, with agriculture in the centre of the stage, but with education, shipping and monetary policy as busy " supers." The Government's...

caused by his announcement of a conditional shipping subsidy last week. He owed much to Sir Stafford Cripps, who exulted academically on the difficul- ties of a capitalist...

second reading on Wednesday, will ensure a statutory 48-hour week for 400,000 inveniles who up to now have had no such protection and have been grossly overworked. But there are...

M BARTHOU, the French Foreign Minister, has • been a welcome guest in this country—welcome as a distinguished representative of France must always he, and at this moment in...

M R. WALTER ELLIOT'S activity at the Ministry of Agriculture may be admired both as achieve- ment and as example. In the latter respect it is more than a little timely. Since...

be obtained, of the respective subscription sales of the penny papers, and their sales on the book-stalls. The latter would be a much better indication of real pulling power...

the same lament and the same appeal ? From Surrey we turn our eyes northwards to Buckinghamshire, where a group of neighbours living round the Whiteleaf Cross are intent on...

in the shipping debate in the House of Commons, that owing to the Government's refusal to grant a special day for the discussion of their important proposals, the Opposition had...

Zaro Agha, the Turk who died the other day aged 157, proposed to Amfe Amet Mustapha. The marriage was forbidden by her parents, who enlisted i her in a Turkish merchant's harem....

A T the beginning of the week all the papers, and with good reason, were congratulating this country on a series of brilliant sporting achievements—in rowing, in yachting, in...

of the words—the programme notes and Narrator's speeches —for the Pageant which will take place at Abinger on Saturday. I read them carefully, for they are by Mr. E. M. Forster,...

By W. E. MASHFORD T HE systematic and continuous exploitation of the working classes through Industrial Assurance is an evil on an immense scale which has never been adequately...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT I N Berlin, in the great old days of opposition, when the Storm Troops had something to storm and the Nazi movement was sweeping onward unitedly,...

By F. KINGDON WARD T HE long drought which began in the early summer of 1933, and has continued with scarcely a break ever slim, is now becoming almost a commonplace. It is,...

By BONAMY DOBRIE IF you ask haphazard acquaintances what they think of Mr. Shaw, they will almost certainly answer, irritatingly, with phonographic regularity, " Oh, Shaw. •...

By W. A. BREND T HE King's Coroner dates from Norman times, and the most important of his early functions was to collect certain revenues of the Crown. He took possession of the...

By E. E. KELLETT (Extract from Hwang-ti's History of the Third Millennium, A.D.) T HE glory of discovering the certain method of ending the old-fashioned national quarrels...

[" Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men."] BROUGHT them and burnt them—but no magic here ; Instead just so much...

[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN KORRESPONDENTEN] I N Munchen, dem sommerlichen Zentrum des deutschen Fremdenverkehres und in der Geburts-Stadt des Nationalsozialismus, sind gegenwartig...

the outstanding events of last week were the three performances of Choreartium, Massine's ballet to the music of Brahms' fourth symphony. This work was produced last year, but...

" The Maitlands." By Ronald Mackenzie. At Wyndham's Musical Chairs was an unforgettably good play. The Maitlands is little more than a moderate one. It is episodic and formless...

Hamlet in London, hr,s played almost every kind of part during his long career on stage and screen in the United States. I prefer him in comedy, and his- rendering in 20th...

FRIDAY, JULY 13th 12.00 Organ Recital from Downside Abbey : Dom Gregory Murray .. N. 18.30 Recital for Two Pianofortes : Maude Dixon, Carl Weber N. 20.30 Strains of Clan...

THIS is a very English film loosely fitted to a Continental pattern. It is about a Ruritanian Princess who for some rather vague reason is to marry the elderly and impoverished...

Aberdeen or Hereford A distinguished Spaniard connected with the Argentine Republic has just written a history and appreciation of the three chief breeds, as he considers them,...

100,000 Allotments The allotment holders in England, who greatly outnumber our farmers, have been increased by some tens of thousands within the last three years. Chiefly...

the word may be allowed, at the Royal Show. The allotment was dug and sown in April last on the show ground at Ipswich ; and on the days of the show was carrying most persuasive...

Continuing drought has brought many hard problems to country people and animals. Surface-rooted shrubs, even the hardy and common privet and the nuts, have fallen incontinent...

art taught by the organizers of this most beneficent scheme. The one superiority of the French gardener over the English is not in production but in the treatment of the...

in a London garden than the roses in the old Botanic Gardens in The Regent's Park. The place is an education for every gardener, largely because he can tell, that most important...

A New Hen Few successes of greater interest or more prospect of practi. cal value have been won in the field of agricultural biology than the making of the new Cambridge hen....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Edmund T. MacMichael, in your issue of last week, wrote thus : " Both Mr. Coleridge's Dogs' Protection Bill and Sir Robert Gower's...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I say in extension of the Council for Civil Liberties' letter concerning the Incitement to Disaffection Bill that serious dangers are...

will permit me a few lines to reply briefly to Mr. MacMichael's lengthy exposition of his reasons for objecting to certain prospective and existing legislation designed to...

[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...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Baronesse von Der Goltz must surely have a very poor opinion of the intellect of the British public in general and your readers in...

" does less than justice to the Local Authorities. The reason why a larger number of Local Authorities have not implemented the Ministry of Health's Memorandum 153 is because...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As " Modernist " says, " Abortion exists wholesale today." He advocates its legalization on the grounds that then women would resort to...

Spectator, July 6th) that the prestige and authority of the King of Italy have greatly declined since the advent of Fascism, and claims that he has had to submit to the...

SIR, Mr. Douglas Goldring has misunderstood my letter. I hope that your readers have not formed the impression upon which he endeavours to lay stress, that my reference to the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to the letter in The Spectator of June 29th as to the nuisance caused by the driving of motor-cars on the Downs, may I be...

SIR,—Information of a grave character has reached us from reliable sources regarding the position of women politicals in Italy. It is to the following effect : (1) Innocent...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Andrew Rothstein is a very stout fellow when engaged in speaking ill of the dead Tsarist regime. The red pot reviling the discarded...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—When I read the bitter letter of Mr. W. J. Wenham on the above subject in your issue of June 22nd and contrasted it with your editorial...

By HERBERT READ GENIUS is sometimes difficult to transplant, and among modern instances there is none so striking as Gide's. In France his influence pervades every section of...

By C. E. M. JOAD 'rum flood of books on psycho-analysis with which these islands were inundated a few years ago is now happily receding from our shores. In America, however, it...

The Social Survey of Merseyside. Edited by D. Caradog SINCE Mr. Seebohm Rowntree published his famous study of York in 1901, a vast number of English provincial town areas have...

Communications in the Far East. By F. V. de Fenner. (P. S. King. 15s.) THE general thesis of this book is that, as communications are indispensable to economic development, and...

Dogs of War. By F. Yeats-Brown. (Peter Davies. Os.) Tim is " Bengal Lancer's " counterblast to Mr. Beverley Nichols' Cry Havoc : the reply of " a quiet, grey man in Gower...

Gordon at Khartoum. By John Buchan. (Peter Davies, 5s.) IT is natural that much should have been written about so heroic and unusual a nature as Charles Gordon. Some three years...

Tristram. By Frank Kendon. (Dent. 2s. 6d.) Stony Limits and other Poems. By Hugh MacDiarroid. (Gol- lancz. 6s.) In poetry, the elaborate concealment of a simple meaning is as...

The Hundred Days (1815). By Philip Guedalla. (Peter Davies. 5s.) Letters of Napoleon. Translated and edited by J. M. Thompoon. (Basil Blackwell. 10.3. ad.) IN just over a...

• By GRAHAM GREENE Kaleidoscope. By Stefan Zweig. (Cassell. 7s. Gd.) 7s. 6d.) Hamm once wrote (he was referring to the paintings in the Dulwich Gallery, but his remark is...

of travel is given by Dr. J. Bartlet Brebner, of Columbia University, in The Explorers of North America (Black, 18s.). He begins with Columbus, and deals successively with the...

note, " should be impersonal enough to serve as a text-book ; and apparently that is meant in all seriousness. Nothing that Mr. Pound writes is in any sense impersonal, and this...

Bryant and G. P. Baker The first volume of this interesting personal record, the Diary and Reminiscences of William Lucas of Hitchin, covering the years from 1804 to 1843, has...

By John Buchan There is no substitute for Mr. Buchan, but his latest novel (Hodder and Stoughton, 7s. 6d.) gives one an uneasy idea that Mr. Buchan is trying to be a substitute...

By Frederic Watson The modern biographer treads a difficult path. If he refuses to indulge in the precarious feats of the pseudo-Stracheys, who, like trick-cyclists, have had...

MORE CHEERFUL MARKETS. AFTER an unsettled account, disturbed by Continental alarms, Markets began the new account at the beginning of the week with a decidedly more cheerful...

The Home Railway Outlook IN noting from time to time in The Spectator the pro- spects of English Railways from the stockholder's point of view, I have felt it necessary to adopt...

Sc rihbans and CoMpany, which became a public company in 1927, manufacture slab cake on a large scale and controls the well-known business of George Kemp, Ltd., the cake and...

[A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the firm correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword . Puzzle,"...

Mr. W. Carlyle Stamp, M.A. A.C.A. has been elected a member of the Board of -Management M.A., the Abbey-Road Building-Society.

TEE BANK- DIVIDENDS. The big banking institutions have now all announced un- changed dividends feomthose of a year ago, though at this time of year no figures are available to...

Having been maintained at the same rates as those paid for each of the last two completed years, bank dividends, it is thought, may be regarded as more or less stabilized under...

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