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AMERICA ACTS
The SpectatorHE more or less normal vicissitudes of the war in the past week—progress in Abyssinia and Somaliland, progress Greece, the sinking of an Italian cruiser, an Italian raider d an...
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorS IGNS abound that the war is working up to a new intensity, as was expected with the approach of spring. The latest figures of merchant-shipping sinkings suggest that the new...
Movement in the Balkans
The SpectatorGerman troops continue their march across Bulgaria towards the Greek and Turkish frontiers, and it is estimated that I or 12 divisions, including heavy armoured divisions, are...
Vichy and the Blockade
The SpectatorAdmiral Darlan's threat to convoy ships bringing food to France unless Great Britain raises the blockade on such ship- ments creates a situation that must be handled...
German Propaganda in the East
The SpectatorMore evidence of the persistence and versatility of Gaol propaganda, even in regions which should be far more oixl to British influences than to Nazi, is given by the special...
Prospects in the Air
The SpectatorEveryone knew that Sir Archibald Sinclair in his si..■ on the Air Estimates would have a good account to ; . of the work already done by the Air Force, and he not disappoint the...
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A number of other points have been raised by various
The Spectatormembers, all of which point to the usefulness of Parliamentary criticism. Some valuable concessions have been made on the Means Test Bill, due to the rebellion of a group of...
Major Turton made some damaging observations on War Office organisation,
The Spectatorto which attention must be paid. This is one sentence from a careful and convincing speech: " My con- viction is that no civilian business could possibly be run on Army lines...
We are now a nation in arms, and the many
The Spectatorproblems which affect the training and welfare of those in the three Services figured prominently in each debate. These are vital questions which go to the root of morale and...
The naval debate particularly suffered from this studied reticence. However,
The Spectatorthe debate on shipping to be held in secret session will do much to remedy this deficiency. Recent losses in merchant shipping are causing more anxiety than any other single...
More Juvenile Crime In a circular issued by the Home
The SpectatorOffice calling upon local authorities to provide more remand home accommodation it is pointed out that in the first four months of 1940 there was an increase, compared with the...
Unemployment Disappearing
The SpectatorIt was realised before the war started that under war con- ditions the problem of finding work for the unemployed would disappear, and that the difficulty would be to find...
Labour in the Shipyards
The SpectatorSpeeding-up in the turn-round of labour at the docks is to he followed by similar measures in the handling of labour in the shipbuilding and ship-repairing industries. It was...
The Week in Parliament
The SpectatorOur Parliamentary Correspondent writes: We have now heard three stirring speeches from the three Defence Ministers, Mr. Alexander, Captain Margesson and Sir Archibald Sinclair,...
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PATRIOTISM AND POLITICS
The SpectatorI F Horace were alive today and dared to say that it is a 1 sweet and seemly thing to die for your country, no doubt he would be challenged and asked to say what exactly he...
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The question how far the B.B.C. foreign broadcasts are listened
The Spectatorto in Germany and countries under German domin- ation is often asked and not easily answered, for reliable data on the subject are naturally hard to obtain. But the B.B.C. has...
Under the genial chairmanship of Mr. A. P. Herbert (who
The Spectatorin enumerating some of those present did not fail to refer to the editor of this journal as " The Editor—not of the Bilious Weekly ' ") the editorial committee of " Britain in...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorU the present conditions of paper shortage no daily U paper can publish a really adequate Parliamentary Report. On a day like last Tuesday, for example, when the Air Estimates...
Whatever view be taken of its theological tenets, there can
The Spectatorbe no doubt of the Oxford Group's talent for organisation. The motion recently put down by the Senior Burgess for Oxford University praying the President of the Board of Trade...
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THE WAR SURVEYED : THE SPRING CAMPAIGN OPENS
The SpectatorBy STRATEGICUS O N February 24 Hitler informed the Nazi Old Guard that the " struggle at sea is only about to begin." Punctual to the day it began, and we find the shipping...
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WHAT TO TELL FRANCE
The SpectatorBy DAVID THOMSON PEAKING in Cambridge nearly four months before war 0 began, Mr. Churchill gave one of his prophetic warnings.- " Nazi propaganda in France," he declared, "...
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MORE SCHOOL PROBLEMS
The SpectatorBy MICHAEL ROBERTS A CENTURY ago many of our local grammar schools turned themselves into boarding-schools, and under the leadership of the older Public Schools set out to...
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THE NATURE OF VITAMINS
The SpectatorBy OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT nUESTIONS have sometimes been asked by the sceptical ice as to what exactly vitamins are, what they really do, and '.nether, in spite of the vast...
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OUR BILLET
The SpectatorBy FOUR-BY-TWO O UR billet is one hundred and twelve yards long. As I have spent a considerable portion of the last eight months in learning about linear measurement, y6u can...
WALFORD DAVIES
The SpectatorBy R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, O.M. cc m USIC and the ordinary listener "—that summed up Walford Davies' life work—for how he sacrificed all the self-centred life of the composer for...
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STAGE AND SCREEN
The SpectatorTHE THEATRE 44 Applesauce ! " At the Palladium. Applesauce! unlike most of the war-time revues pleases the eye all the time, and the ear most of it. There are no nudes and no...
ART
The SpectatorNew Exhibitions DELICATE and imaginative, the forty-four pictures by Paul Klee at the Leicester Galleries glow with a rich brilliance. They are the best pictures that London...
THE CINEMA
The Spectator" The Tree of Liberty." At the Regal.-- , . The Prime Minis- ter." At the Warner Theatre. THE week's new films provide an opportunity to compare the approaches of British and...
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A NEW START WITH FARMING "
The SpectatorSIR,—In his suggestions for the future of farming Mr. C. S. Orwin would have been more helpful if he had stated exactly what crops his controlled farmer of the future should be...
SIR,—Perusal of the latter of Mr. C. S. Orwin's articles
The Spectatoron farming has had a most depressing effect on one who, living in the heart of agricultural England, is in intimate touch with the spirit of farm- workers of all classes, not...
SIR,—The missing generation has been a very real and tragic
The Spectatorthing for men who were in their late thirties and early forties in the last war. Such men have lacked the spur of young men pressing on their heels, as we pressed on our...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorWHICH NEW ORDER? Sts,—It would appear from statements made by Government spokes- men that, despite our recent successes in the Middle East—in Africa and in Albania—there is no...
THE MISSING GENERATION
The SpectatorSIR,—The always thought-provoking notes of your colleague " Janus " dispose by statistics of the loose expression, born of loose thought, which talks of " a whole generation...
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QUOD SCRIPSI "
The SpectatorSm,—" Strategicus " is mistaken in ascribing what he terms my recent " obsession with the defensive" to the influence of M. Bloch's writings before the last war. Actually, my...
" CONSERVATE SOCIALISM "
The SpectatorSIR, —Canon Roger Lloyd's article on the coming of what he calls the omnicompetent State is a striking sign of the times—and a very hopeful sign. He sees that during recent...
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Unfriendly South Is it true that country people, and especially
The Spectatorsouth country PeoPle, are unfriendly? I picked up a soldier, dead-tired, carrying full kit, at the end of a journey which he had begun at half-past four in the morning. He was...
" THREE SCORE MILES AND TEN "
The SpectatorSte,—Mr. Graham Greene, in a recent issue, extracted so much humour from what I had never thought to be more than a rather prosaic little handbook on Colloquial Persian that I...
Tender Lily An interesting example of frost-resistance has been provided
The Spectatorby Lilium Sulphureum. Text-books recommend it as a greenhouse lily, rather tender, with possible chances of success in Cornwall, where its glorious yellow-throated, pink-touched...
GENERAL WAVELL'S WAR
The SpectatorSnt,—I was interested to see your comment on Mr. Orwell's review of General Wavell's Allenby in Horizon. for December. A paragraph on the subject is appearing in the Editorial...
THE B.B.C. AND " THE SPECTATOR "
The SpectatorSIR,—Sniping at the B.B.C. is a popular pastime. A rather easy one, too, because the number and variety of the B.B.C.'s activities offer so many targets. I agree with Mr. Sr....
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorThe Land Drainage Problem Long before the war drew attention in this column to t h e hopeless state of land-drainage in England ; now a correspondent, who as a partner in a...
In the Garden If there are to be flowers this
The Spectatorsummer—and they are infinitell preferable to lawns dug up and exclusively planted with lettuces -- they should be varieties which, as it were, pay large dividends Petunias,...
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Federalism Again
The SpectatorWhat Federal Government Is. By K. C. Wheare ; The Philosophy of Federalism. By C. E. M. Joad ; Economic Aspects of Federation. By Lionel Robbins; Socialism and Federation. By...
Books of the Day
The SpectatorA Voice from Italy " A NAPOLEON destroys a merely apparent and nominal liberty, he removes its appearance and its name, levels down the peoples under his rule, and leaves those...
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Blitz and Ritz
The SpectatorEuropean Spring. Clare Boothe. (Hamish Hamilton. nos. 6d.) " THEsE are the good old days now." This is the pessimis refrain which runs throughout Miss Clare Boothe's review five...
Portrait of the Artist
The SpectatorJames Joyce. A Definitive Biography. By Herbert Gorman. (The Bodley Head. 558.) JAMES JOYCE, European writer owed to Ireland, remained during his lifetime a rather aloof figure....
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Escape
The SpectatorCampden. xxiv Engravings after Pen Drawings by F. L. Griggs, R.A. (Shakespeare Head Press. 525. 6d.) Au. along the wide stony high street of Chipping Campden one is aware of...
Since " Farmer's Glory "
The SpectatorWessex Wins. By A. G. Street. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) MIL STREET'S latest book is a sequel to Farmer's Glory. It is an autobiography of work: but not of farm work. It starts...
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COMPANY MEETING G REAT WESTERN RAILWAY
The SpectatorALTERED TRAFFIC CONDITIONS THE eighteenth annual general meeting of the Great Western Railway Company was held on March 12th in London. Mr. Charles J. Hambro (the chairman) in...
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Fiction
The SpectatorThe Ox-Bow Incident. By Walter van Tilburg Clark. 75. 6d.) (Gollana. THERE are two things a novel can do for us now to ease us of our present stresses: either it can present...
One Shilling, Coloured
The SpectatorCaricature. Edited by Elizabeth Senior. (King Penguin Books. Is.) THESE two books look more modest than they are, for if they are successful and if the series grows there is a...
A Coroner Looks Back
The Spectatorinquest. By S. Ingleby Oddie. (Hutchinson. I6S.) IT is a truism that few people can be boring when they talk shop, and a truth that even fewer realise this. One of the m er i...
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorUNITED KINGDOM PROVIDENT INSTITUTION A CENTURY OF STEADY PROGRESS ALL RESOURCES DIVERTED TO NATIONAL EFFORT SIR ERNEST BENN'S REVIEW Is view of the fact that many members of...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS ONCE again the spotlight has been turned on the railw a y problem. The more one looks at it, the more intractable it seems. Even Lord Stamp, who expounded the problem...
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comPAro mEETING
The SpectatorLONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY COMPANY NET REVENUE OF THE POOL INCREAED FOR PAST YEAR LORD STAMP ON WORKING DIFFICULTIES RESULTING FROM WAR CONDITIONS THE eighteenth...
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COMPANY mat.c.1
The SpectatorSOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY WAR-TIME PROBLEMS MR. R. HOLLAND-MARTIN'S SPEECH THE annual general meeting of the Southern Railway Company was held on March 12th in London. Mr....
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