M ILITARY events in China have been overshadowed by the decisions on Japan's war policy taken at the Imperial Con- ference in Tokyo. It seems certain that, despite pressure from...

the Diplomatic Corps was in form and substance all that could be desired. Its theme was peace, its purport Germany's desire to see European peace established. It is easy to talk...

to recapture Teruel is for the moment certain ; " the Teruel brooch," which, he announced .at the New Year, had clasped " the chain of victories of the year now ended " has...

L. Starkey, head of the Marston- Wellcome Archaeological Research Expedition in Palestine, by a party of armed Arabs near Hebron on Tuesday, was a particularly brutal and...

results of M. Goga's appointment as Prime Minister of Rumania, as opposed to his pronounce- ments before attaining office, have so far been less alarming than was at first to be...

again has involved the Front Populaire Government in serious difficulties, appears to have been precipitated by the folly or intent of workers and employers alike. The workers...

relations between Great Britain and the Irish Free State (or Eire, as we must now call it) have proved abortive for any excessive expectations to be raised by the announcement...

over Russia assembled for the first meeting of the Soviet Parliament, consisting of the All-Union Council and the Council of Nationalities. Each deputy was returned unopposed ;...

while in many specific cases the Labour Party is probably successful in expressing the mind of the majority of the electors, such success does not bring its corresponding reward...

they chose Sir Archibald Sinclair to be their leader. Since the retirement of Lord Baldwin he is the most attractive figure of all the party heads. He has added greatly to his...

before it is even within sight of a majority. In 1935 the National candidates polled 11,704,745 as compared with Labour's 8,326,131. It is argued that a turnover of a little...

Spectator will include an article of particular interest by Bernard Shaw, and a defence, by D. W. Brogan, Of the American film against the British, to be followed in the...

potential wealth unexploited. Sir Roy Robinson, chairman of the Forestry Commission, said, in a paper which he read on Monday to the Chartered Surveyors' Institution, that he...

not a good year for the Parliamentary Labour Party. It reached the lowest depths of depression in July when the decision was taken to abstain on the service estimates. Since the...

the so-called Ludlow resolution has relieved President Roosevelt of con- siderable anxiety. The aim of the resolution, which, if adopted, would probably have necessitated an...

O N Tuesday, for only the fourth time in over forty years, the rulers of Japan assembled at a conference in the presence of the Emperor himself ; and the rarity of the event may...

A RTICLES which have appeared in the last two issues of The Spectator on the subject of air-raid precau- tions, together with an illuminating examination of the existing...

to be Director- General of the English-Speaking Union is presumably satisfactory both to Sir Frederick and to the Union, but major congratulations must go to the latter, for it...

M R. W. E. DODD, the retiring American Ambassador in Berlin, has got back to his own country and said a little of what he thinks of the Nazi system, with the result that London...

Scottish Universities is admirable. Sir John, in fact, appears to possess all the qualifications. He is Scottish born, went to a Scottish school, took his degree at Edinburgh...

Mr. .Geoffrey Lloyd, is going to Berlin to learn all about Germany's air-raid precautions, so that, profiting by her example, we may frustrate her bombers if they come....

little pamphlet which I understand Japanese booksellers are slipping into any book or parcel of books which they send to this country. It is entitled " Why ? Who ? How ?" and...

But with his condemnation of slovenly English every right- thinking man (as a former editor of this paper loved to put it) must most heartily concur. Mr. Shaw meant spoken...

about them—nothing at all. And when I suggested that a cauliflower that brings the grower in an eighth of a penny and sells eventually for 7d. owes a considerable part of the...

By SIR PETER CHALMERS MITCHELL W ELCOME rumours suggest that the formation of National Parks in Great Britain may be about to pass from an aspiration to a reality. The term "...

By RICHARD FREUND T HE trouble with India is that it is so big. Try to get the hang of any social or political problem, and you will be baffled by the first Blue Book you open....

By PREBENDARY CARLILE, C.H., D.D. [Prebendary Carlik, Founder and Honorary Chief Secretary of the Church Army, was born on January 14th, 1847.] T HE note of pessimism is...

By Dr. BENJAMIN GREGORY (Secretary of the Religious Film Society) T HE Christian Church has always been cautious in its attitude to new methods, and it has certainly been slow...

By . DR. EDWYN BEVAN IN December, 1922, Archbishop Davidson appointed a Commission to " demonstrate the extent of existing agreement within the Church of England "and to "...

By STANLEY SHARPLESS I T doesn't take much to start them off and that's straight. We'll be sitting there calm as you like, Dad and Mum and Bill and me—Bill's my brother, he's...

THE total amount so far subsclibed to the fund which The Spectator is raising for the.supply of wireless receiving sets to various convict and other prisons is a little over...

By LAWRENCE ATHILL P ASSING the other day down one of London's more distinguished streets, I witnessed a rather thought- provoking scene. Half - way along the street builders...

THE RUMANIAN EXPERIMENT FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Bucharest. A CLOSE parallel exists between the present development in Rumania and that in Germany in 1932—which brought...

MUSIC Canned Bells and Counterfeit Organs CAmPANoLoGv—blessed word whose very syllables seem to echo the clump and clang of many bells rung together and then tailing off upon...

RENOIR is as much a master of his art as was his distin- guished father, and in criticising La Grande Illusion it is necessary to stress the fact that it can only be judged by...

China and Children. No one who has any feeling for the art of the Orient should miss the exhibition which has just been arranged for Chinese Medical Aid in the old rooms of the...

[D'un correspondant parisien] Vous ne trouverez pas dans votre dictionnaire le mot remembre- ment. Mais it figurera certainement dans la prochaine edition, car il est entre...

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is very angry at the suggestion that birds may be responsible ; but they may take comfort from the fact that no slaughter of birds...

Tenant Farmers Not once or twice in days when agricultural depression began to be serious I heard an old Midlaqd farmer say : " Better a bad landlord than no landlord." The...

The excellent association of Bird Watchers and Wardens, founded last year, has its centre at the Black Cabin, South Wooton, Kings Lynn. Since I last referred to its good work it...

From the loud outcry about the offensive suggestion for an anti-aircraft station on the Norfolk Coast between Blakeney and the Cley Marshes has been omitted the most vital note....

The many people who will visit New South Wales in this anniversary year will make a mistake if they do not visit the Sydney Zoo. Many Zoos are set in pleasant places. From our...

disease on the Continent and in Britain, various theorists have brought charges against various animals : crows and rooks, starlings, rats, mice and flies. There seems to be...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The thoughtful article by Miss Josephine Fry, in your issue of December 31st, on the topography of Edward Lear must be warmly welcomed by...

[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, — As a Scotsman of under 3o, may I thank you for your very interesting series of " Voices " ? I myself move daily among many of the voices...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — .AS a Governor of the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, I am sending you a literary " find." Two hundred years ago...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Siu,—Will you allow me to suggest to " Country Vicar " that the Choral Eucharist is not " a feeble imitation of the Roman Mass"? It is the...

Janus " and the subsequent letters appearing in your columns have interested me a good deal, and possibly you may care to publish the views of a layman who for over sixty years...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am afraid that this is becoming a futile discussion. Mr. Bruce Woolfe is a film-producer and I am a film critic. We are supposed to be...

" is even more remote from life in his belief than his predecessors in their unbelief. Rarely have any of your contributors been so fatuously wrong-headed in their notion of...

contribution to the discussion of " Prisons and Prisoners," may I send you what struck me as a most illuminating description of the types of boy who arrive at a Borstal school?...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—After reading the article as to whether it is better for the daughter of the house to be a boarder or a day-girl, by Mabel Howat, I feel...

(To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Hall Caine's letter on the subject of shorthand raises two important issues. One, is it possible that another system as good as that...

(To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The Spectator can, I think, say with regard to Mr. H. B. Hermon-Hodge's trenchant letter, " Let the galled jade wince, our withers are...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It may be a little early to write the obituary notice of the Five-Year Plan and to suggest that it is already dead, but it is in such a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with some surprise Sybil Vincent's article " South America's Indians," which appeared on page 843 of your issue of November...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of January 7th Mr. Hayward enquires when it was " first O.K." to walk in the Zoo on Sunday. It was certainly the fashion in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Although the suggested solution of the Palestine difficulties put forward by Prebendary Wilson Cash in your last issue is not likely to...

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KINGLAKE once referred to " that nearly iinmatable law which compels a man viith a pen in his hand to be uttering every now and then some sentiment not his own," and compared an...

United Kingdom Since 1860. By A. L. Bowley. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.) THIS summary of the results of a lifetime's work on statistics of wages and income is for...

DOOR " IN 1783, so our authors tell us, there was a conversation between John Adams, one of the American peace negotiators and Oswald, the British - agent. " You are afraid,"...

Richard Porson : A Biographical Essay. By M. L. Clarke. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.) " I AM quite satisfied if, three hundred years hence, it shall be said that ' one...

Psychology Down the Ages. By Professor C. Spearman. Two Volumes. (Macmillan. 3os.) Psychology for Everyone. By W. J. H. Sprott. (Longman. 8s. 6d.) WHEN psychology at last...

ren- dering into English of Dr. Mardrus' translation into French of The Thousand Nights and One Night has been published by Messrs. Routledge. We regret that in our issue of...

By KATE O'BRIEN HALFWAY through Over the Frontier I closed the book and said " Hurrah three times " for Pompey Casmilus. But when it came to the final closing, the very last...

The purpose of this volume (Bell, 2S. 6d.) is to stimulate public interest in the possibilities of precognition, and so raise funds to enable laboratory investigations to be...

Barbara Hammond The fifth edition of this well-known book (Methuen, los. 6d.) contains a new and valuable chapter on " The World Economic Crisis." The authors may be said to be...

I CHOSE TEACHING : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY By Ronald Gurner Mr. Gurner tells of " one stout defender of Victorian faith, who gave a ruling to his office that the parents of the...

To say that a volume concerned with international conferences is based on cartoons by Derso and Kelen is to make any appreciation of it superfluous, for what Low is to people...

The Monte Carlo Rally Next Tuesday week begins a motoring event that is unlike any other held in the world, the annual drive of some 2,300 miles by a large number of pleasantly...

WHEN markets can take news as dismaying as the December unemployment totals and President Roosevelt's fresh broad- sides into the " Big Business " entrenchments without turning...

Having referred last summer to the preference shares of W. H. Dorman and Co., the Stafford firm of oil-engine makers, I think another glance at this company's position is...

Even on the most exacting standard I cannot award anything less than Alpha plus to the Lancashire Cotton Corporation report. The spectacular rise in income from £136,465 to...

As I suspected, the banks have had a satisfactory year. " Gross up " the published profits of the " Big Five " by adding back the provisions for income tax and N.D.C., and it...

Joseph Nathan, the proprietors of " Glaxo " and other milk products, announced last December the resumption of ordinary dividends with a payment of to per cent. after an...

The profits of F. W. Woolworth and • Company have con- founded Stock Exchange expectations by rising to a new high record just short of £6,50o,000. At £6,490,014 they compare...

Turner and Newall, the asbestos combine, is one of the growing number of companies which cir culate an advance copy of the Chairman's speech with the report and accounts, so...

COMMODITY PRICES RISING. IN one important aspect the financial background has per.. ceptibly improved during the past week. The prices of primary commodities have risen. A week...

This week's meeting of Alvis, Limited, was necessarily a critical one, but it ended in a victory for the board. It will be recalled that the accounts for the 19 months' trading...

JUTE INDUSTRIES THE seventeenth annual general meeting of Jute Industries Ltd. was held on January 12th at Winchester House, London, E.C. Mr. J. Ernest Cox (the Chairman) said...

British American Tobacco Company, whose issued capital stands at £34,178,761, has world-wide interests in the cigarette and tobacco trades. It was known that the company and its...

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., LTD: SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASED PROFITS SIR HUGO CUNLIFFE-OWEN'S STATEMENT THE thirty-fifth annual general meeting of the British-American Tobacco...

Mr. J. Ernest Cox, at the meeting of Jute Industries, was faced with the paradox of a company which has earned increased profits, and at the same time is making applications to...

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