One of the , most valuable contributions yet made to the consideration of the Italo-Abyssinian problem is con- tained in a letter (which might well have been given more...

general judgement. Her attitude is undisclosed, and the attention drawn to the cordiality of the interchanges be- tween Herr Hitler and the new Italian Ambassador in Berlin last...

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Hoare's speech at Geneva makes it considerably clearer than before what Italy will have to face if Signor Mussolini carries through his plan of aggression at any cost. The...

admits that he does not hold the same view as his colleagues in the Labour Party about . the use of sanctions against a nation which has violated the Covenant of the League. In...

many, of General Goring's utterances are faultlessly conceived, but his comments on the situation at Memel, where an election is pending, are fully justified in their main...

Socialist Party's annual conference at Nuremberg—the home of that sinister figure Herr Julius Streicher—have been marked appropriately by new denunciations of the Jews, with...

Athens by the extreme Monarchists last Sunday appeared at - first to have failed, thanks to the energy of the Commander of the Athens garrison, General Panayiotakos, and the...

removes from American public life a politician who achieved notoriety rather than fame and leaves no successor because he had no constructive policy to bequeath. He was the...

has reached a very sensible decision regarding its relations with ex-service iii ni of the former enemy countries. The British section of the federation failed to...

food at the British Association last Tuesday, both Professor Neville Moss and Sir John Orr insisted that there is still a section of the population living at the bare...

Titled Trade Unionists Since a Labour Government has itself bestowed honours it may be taken that the Labour Party has settled the 'question of the propriety of its members...

There will be " interesting and. important " recom- mendations on the question of street-lighting in the interim report of a committee set up by the Minister of Transport last...

unemployment returns has not received the publicity' it deserves. This is the steady increase in juvenile unemployment. Between July and August, while the total of adult...

as PreSident at the conference of the Institute of Journalists last Monday, lightly deprecated the tendency to judge the journalistic craft as a whole by the 'sins of a few of...

N OT for generations has a British Foreign Secretary been confronted on his entry into office with graver, more delicate or more perplexing problems than faced Sir Samuel Hoare...

B it., WYNN JONES, addressing the British Association on the subject of Personality and Age, was not concerned, like Sophocles and Cicero, to sing the praises of old age. Ex...

than the officials of the organisations which purport to represent them. After all the protests against special tracks for cyclists, it appears from the official census that 96...

T HE fi rst comments in the British Press on Sir Samuel Hoare's speech show too little appreciation of the gravity of the situation now swiftly developing.. The plain fact is...

favourite of the radio world, in the delightful Lady Precious Stream, now revived at the Little Theatre, was well-calculated to arouse curiosity. Would Miss Constanduros be...

on what impressed them most in Great Britain. A prominent Chinese industrialist who was here a few weeks ago, when questioned . on that, answered rather surprisingly, "...

the Open Air Theatre's season. The end, of course, had to come. Evenings are closing in and growing colder. An open-air play cannot be in September what it was in June. But much...

is a diminutive) was most remarkable for the swiftness of his rise and his union of spectacular showmanship in the Senate—he had no influence there whatever—with real power over...

the suspensory interdict laid on the publication of her biography of her husband is of more than personal in- terest,the statement that a Sunday paper paid £10,000 for the right...

By DR, ULRICH NOACK (Reader in Modern History, University of Frankfurt) [This article by a responsible Germa n wr it er is printed as an example of the ingenious...

By J. L. HAMMOND A T the time of the Boer War a certain type of patriot was described as busy killing Kruger with his mouth. Killing with the mouth is now recognised as one of...

By HAMILTON FYFE I N Germany arc delightful cities by the score. One might assert that in certain ways all are delightful, even Berlin. Their streets are spacious, tree-shaded,...

By A. N. GILKES T HAT sounds like war." I leaned across the table of the little living-room and offered my host another woodbine—a brand of cigarette he prefers to any other....

By 0. M. GREEN T WENTY-FIVE Chinese students have arrived in London this week on three-year scholarships paid for out of the proceeds of the British share of the Boxer...

By E. L. WOODWARD I HAVE seen two royal funerals, two coronations, two jubilees, two great fires, three thorough-going eclipses - of the sun ; but not until today have I been...

By JAN SMUTTIER T HE best cure for optical strain is a complete change of focus. When the eye is exhausted from watching the inexplicable antics of human beings, clap it to a...

Rica is the grave's lodger ; Earth's rare nostalgia Shall from his bones beget The anonymous violet. This catholic ground more grand Is than our selves, this land To whose...

" On Wings of Song." At the Tivoli.--" Peg of Old Drury." At the Leicester Square.—" Break of Hearts." At the Plaza I'm afraid we are in for a run of films presenting the Loves...

" The House of Borgia." A play in three acts. By Clifford Bax. At the Embassy. Timm are certain characters in history whose appeal to posterity lies not in importance of...

A Celtic Twilight of the Gods Scar:, it's a difficult task the audience were having to follow the story of Rutland Boughton's new opera, The Ever Young. And if you will be...

[D'un correspondant francais] LA journee du 1°C ^ septembre dernier a vu, sous tin ciel gracicusement favorable, se derouler, dans le Midi de in France, des fetes...

to notify TEE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY oh MONDAY or EACH 'WEEK. 'Pith pi colons addreSs to , which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

Norwich Naturalists The counties and shires of England have their intellectual as well as their scenic differences. The distinction of Norfolk has long been the number of'...

A correspondent recently wrote to ask what place the ant held in the economy of nature. What a number of answers, not all serious, could be given. They provide the favourite...

days of Elizabeth, was sold two years ago to a Government Department, who bought it (strangely enough, not for preservation, but as an investment, 'a land deal). The estate,...

grower is always seeking for the best apple of the early autumn. Having made the search with others and having planted a new orchard, of which the first-fruits are now being...

birds, even in the general economy of nature, is raised by Lord Tavistock, who has a peculiar knowledge of spiders and certain insects. The secretary of the Selborne Society has...

Norfolk itself has recently been the scene of some move- ments, quite new to experience. The strangest perhaps was the arrival on the coast, in a spell of hard winter weather,...

harvests are in full swing ; and blackberry and mushroom-piekers go forth from every village in numbers. The mushroom keeps its value ; and the wild agaricus cavnpestris (which...

an Oxford Group meeting the language used by a speaker falls below the highest level of literary taste, I console myself with the reflection that, if conversa- tional Greek was...

[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,—Having just returned from a visit to Poland, I am wondering why that country has received so little attention from English travellers. At the risk of making mistakes due to...

L delightful to hear the Provost of Queen's chanting "ds Palinode ! One is reminded of Jerome's dream, in which the s aint saw himself brought before a celestial tribunal, and...

gua,—That Abyssinia is not as civilised as the Western nations of Europe is undisputed, but that she is as savage and lawless as the Italians would like to make others believe...

should be ungrateful indeed if I did not thank Mr. Alistair Cooke for his generous review of my Dictionary of Modern' American Usage. If I offer a comment on one of his...

Sin,—In your " News, of the Week ". you, refer to the Pope as an Italian Pope. May remind you that the Pope is not an Italian national but the sovereign ruler of an indepen-...

SIR,—If the " sentimental ideal " expressed in my letter on the above subject in your issue of a fortnight • ago is worth pursuing may I, in reply to Mr. Barry's letter,...

[To the Editor of THE SPEervron.] Sin,—A writer of a recent article in . The Spectator speaks of the 'acquisitiveness of Great Britain. Great Britain in 1884, although pressed...

o S: N Ec o -r n a e t ,, o , appeared My article Real Sanctions in your issue of September 6th, there is a mistake of a single word . which makes an important difference in...

[To the Editor of TUE SPEcTATOR.] Sin,—In "A Spectator's Notebook " of July 5th appeared a paragraph concerning Indian students in this country, in which "Janus" made the...

. [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A8 an old soldier who has also had experience of police Work - in.Peace and War may I try to point out that when amateurs try to explain...

[To the Editor of Tun S..PF-cTAT 0 R.] Sul,---With reference to my letter to you about Black Game in Surrey a few weeks ago I think the following facts kindly given niC by Miss...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sut,—In The Spectator of July 19th you published a letter from Miss Lee advocating the formation of an armed inter- national police force with...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe concludes his review of Mr. Lang- bury's book, Looking Backwards and Forwards, with an attack on my wife and myself....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Johnson, writing in your issue of August 30th on " Oxford Social Round," starts from the proposition that an incident involving a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In his very interesting article on New Zealand Rugby Football in your issue of September flth Mr. T. B. R. Woodrooffe has made two...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—While greatly appreciating the compliment of being noticed in the very restricted available space in your paper, may I point out an...

By EDMUND BLUNDEN TEMTY years ago the Boston Bibliophile Society, whose funds • must have been in excellent state, caused to be privately • printed an edition of all the...

The Druce-Portland Case. By Theodore Besterman. (Duck- worth. 10s. 6d.) THE Druce case may be properly described as entertaining and instructive, for it is more than a comedy of...

Oliver Goldsmith. By Stephen Gwynn. (Thornton Butter- worth. 15s.) Tins is, as it ought to be, a very pleasant book. A Life of one of the most delightful writers in our...

TiimiE is a nostalgic element in our modern love for the country. The country-born boy who goes to the town to make his fortune, returns in old age to the village of his...

'IN' his foreword to this book, Mr. J. A. Hobson says that the author " stands unique both in his intellectual grasp of the problem as a single whole and in the logic of the...

Rochester. By Charles Williams. (Arthur Barker. 10s.) Ma. WILLIAMS' biography of John Wilmot follows hard on Professor Pinto's. It is a good deal more readable, but genuine...

were weTreho:leearwiyhodererit fro it wniill persons who that some H e i o nd f e i 4 t s bur g an d the Social Democrats and were in close touch with the Schleicher circle, and...

in these columns of an old En g lish sayin g 'that " those who go amon g Spaniards should g o warily." But, as she wittily pointed 'out,• that is far too much to ask a us....

Been Places and Seen Things. By Kenneth Mackenzie. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) Slouch Hat. By Malcolm Burr. (Allen and Unwin. 15s.) Trion; of us who take our adventure vicariously...

By WILLIAM PLOMER The Beachcomber. By William McFee. (Faber. 8s. 641.) The Man Who Had Everything. By Louis Bromfield. (Cassell. fis.) Richard Savage. By Gwyn Jones. (Gollancz....

aim is to thrill as well as to instruct could not find a better subject than Cuba. Mr. Strode's The Pageant of Cuba (Jarrold, 18s.) is as its title suggests, intended for...

AS THE FOREIGNER SAW US By Malcolm Letts Here is a composite picture of the English scene from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century as it appeared to observers from France,...

- By Carl Van Doren The plan of Mr. Van Doren's book (Routledge, 3s. ad.). is of the simplest. Having concluded what writers are the American essence, it tries to define each...

By H. B. Creswell This distinctly unpleasant and quite amusing diary (Faber, 7s. 6d.) is a book to make one wince. But that presumably is the author's intention : to appal the...

specifica- tions that when the show at Olympia opens next month your sensible motorist will see more sensible cars for the money than he has been offered for many years. These...

Industrial Shares IT may be doubted whether there has ever been a time when it was more difficult for the investor to determine the probable course of market movements...

burtING the past week favourable domestic conditions may be s aid to have o ff set, for the time being at all events, the effect upon markets of anxiety with re g ard to the...

Not the least feature in the Industrial Market Not the least feature in the Industrial Market a ,Prin g the past week has been the sharp rise in Courtaulds' ",,,aares on the...

The latest Report of Grosvenor House (Park Lane) makes a satisfactory showing for the past year, the profit being £107,774, against £102,583 in the previous year. The accounts...

A somewhat disappointing Report has been issued during the past week by Whitworth and Mitchell, the makers of " Wemco," " Tricoline " and other fabrics. A year ago the Report...

(Continued from page 411.) GESTETNER BONUS. There have been several influences giving a special stimulus to Industrial shares during the past week and among, them may be...

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