HE 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...

S 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...

German 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...

Admiral 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...

More 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...

Everyone 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...

members, 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...

to 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...

problems 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 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...

Office 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...

It 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...

Speeding-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...

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: We have now heard three stirring speeches from the three Defence Ministers, Mr. Alexander, Captain Margesson and Sir Archibald Sinclair,...

I 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...

to 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...

in 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...

U 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...

be 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...

By 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...

By 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, "...

By 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...

By 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...

By 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...

By 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...

THE 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...

New 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 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...

SIR,—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...

on 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...

thing 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...

WHICH 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...

SIR,—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...

Sm,—" 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...

SIR, —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...

south 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...

Ste,—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...

by 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...

Snt,—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...

SIR,—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....

The 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...

summer—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,...

in any part of the world post paid at the following special rates:— 3 months ... 6s. 6d. 6 months ... 13s. od. 12 months ... 26s. od. Instructions should be forwarded to The...

What 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...

A 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...

European 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...

James 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....

Campden. 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...

Wessex 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...

ALTERED 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...

The 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...

Caricature. 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...

inquest. 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...

UNITED 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...

By 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...

LONDON 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...

SOUTHERN 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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