T HE necessity of going to press a few hours before the announcement which Mr. Attlee was to broadcast on hursday afternoon means that any general appreciation of the situation...

The intentions of Japan, at the moment of writing, are still obscure, though feeling has been worked up to fever-heat and the public has been led to expect further action in...

Tuesday night 4arshal Petain announced that he had conferred full powers ever all the military forces upon Admiral Darlan, thus pre- raring them for further capitulation to the...

of history campaigns such as tho se which have been fought in the Middle East would undoubtedl y have been attended by severe losses from disease among th e troops. Even in the...

Lord Willingdon was one of the greatest public servants of his generation. From 1913, when he became Governor of Bombay, to the day of his death this week, he had been serving...

Though the annnuncement of the War Damage Commission which has just been issued to local authorities is concerned solely with the making of payments in respect of war damage,...

Nearly two years have passed since the first children in vulnerable areas were officially evacuated to safer regions, and it is now possible to form some estimate of the more...

Sir Rabindranath Tagore performed in his life and in his writings the functions of the " poet-prophet " of tradition. He had, as an Indian, the necessary qualifications of birth...

The Anglo-Soviet pledge to Turkey will assure the Govern- ment of that country that it can now look for help in a quarter which hitherto had caused continual anxiety. At one...

R. CORDELL HULL remarked on Monday in Washington that not merely Congress but the country a whole appeared to be completely unaware of the angers threatening the United States....

week—twelve Blenheims, as well as eight fighters, in Tuesday's daylight raid on Cologne, and thirteen bombers of various types in the night raids a few hours later on Berlin and...

America on behalf of British children there, and some British mothers, is being argued again. Surely this is a case in which the Treasury might show itself capable of a little...

readers of column, perhaps to many, by calling their attention to a lit book just published—The Undivided Mind, by E. B. Cas headmaster of Leighton Park (Allen and Unwin, 25....

of the difficulties confronting a man who scored a brilliant initial success and is expected to live up to The technique of direct address is a great deal less effec the second...

M R. SHINWELL'S criticism of the Prime Minister is severe. There are reasons, which I need not elaborate, for not choosing this particular moment to attack Mr. Churchill, but no...

By STRATEGICUS NiPORTANT in themselves, the operations which are taking place in the Ukraine may have a decisive influence on the development of the war. It is now nearly eight...

By PROFESSOR A. V. HILL, M.P., F.R.S. I N the debate on War Production in the House of Commons, on July 29th, the Prime Minister stated that " allowances must be made for the...

By W. W. SCHUTZ C LAUSEWITZ, Prussian officer, but one of the great thinkers in political science, fought in the Russian a rmy. That is not generally known, but it is both true...

By CHARLES MADGE TO the casual eye it must have been obvious for some time that numbers of shops are closed, shuttered or boarded up, in almost every shopping-street. But to...

By RACHEL PALMER MONTH in England after a year in Germanised France gives a welcome opportunity to sort out varied reflec- ons. I was staying with friends in Paris in the...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I T is generally held that it is the Civil Servants who in truth govern this country and that the bureaucratic machine turns out much the same commodity...

to cope with the increased acreage now coming under plough. Will the time come when the hop-gardens, our hanging vineyards, are swept from Kent, leaving the oast-houses to swing...

harvests which England has ever seen. Further volunteers have been called for from the industrial North and Midlands, and north-country voices are heard among our Kentish lanes....

the theory that it is the Civil Servant who invariably decides, will be deducing a false theory. He will be forgetting that any Government Department is like an iceberg, in that...

come to the conclusion that most experienced Civil Servants are indifferent to political or economic theories and that the only thing that they really object to is light or...

Government posts. The mistakes of a Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, in that they mature slowly in the womb of time, cannot be either remedied or concealed. Other...

since the outbreak of the war has gone up steadily. Kent, which is so often in the vanguard of any new form of national effort or experiment, heads the list with 1,500, as...

A rather troubled correspondent asks how he can grow winter lettuces—thinking, perhaps, that now is the time to begin. " I've heard of lettuce standing through into the spring,...

We are probably too apt to regard the deterioration of farming and the drift from the land as contemporary problems, or at ny rate as problems of the dislocated period between...

" Jeannie." At the Leicester Square Theatre.-- ,, Cottage to Let." At the Gaumont.—" One Night in Lisbon." At the Carlton. Jeannie is from Aimee Stuart's play of the same...

and as usual the towns- as, quite naturally, will probably wonder why. By this time presumably knows all about the late spring frosts and the saster to fruit blossom, but he...

obacco Power Looking up some old reports of the Royal Commission on griculture I see that the depression of 1893 was even more severe than that of 1879-8% and that most of the...

Snt,—Commenting in your issue of August 1st on Finland's break of diplomatic relations with Britain, you remarked that Finland cannot expect much British sympathy in the face of...

THE "SOUL" OF. GERMANY Sta,—I think we should be well-advised to handle this conception, and the related notions of a " collective unconscious," " a generalised racial...

Sty—It is not only the continental peoples, as Mr. Mark Sterling suggested in his well-timed article, " Peace by Economics," in The Spectator of July 25th, which are far more...

Sm,—Mr. Gloag's letter is very pertinent. It is possible, howe\ e. that those for whom American history is a new field may fir. The Epic of America pretty hard going in view of...

SIR, —As a member of the Education Committee of a large provinca city, which has had more than its share of air raids, I am as keel as anyone could be that school-children...

TR,—" A Polish Doctor " is not alone in his astonishment at the parent neglect on the part of the authorities to employ available edical talent. Since the Munich crisis I have...

Snt,—May I be permitted to put on record my agreement with Prof. Allison Peers's statement in his article, " Spain, Russia and the War " in your issue of August 1st to the...

SIR, —In his interesting article on " Herbs and Herbalism " in last week's Spectator, Mr. Howard Bayles contrasts the teaching and prac- tice of herbalists with what he terms...

I can quite sympathise with Mrs. Smee, for we had to go out potatoes for two days, an almost seismic occurrence, for toes—like the poor—have always been with us (would that...

cannot under- d why foreign doctors are not employed over here, I should to explain that the shortage of British doctors in certain parts the country and in certain branches of...

Food? Is it provide as much nourishing food for as many people as may be ible? Or is it to ensure that no section of the population more of a food than any other? Eggs are...

SIR, —In your comment on the memorial on Christian education you ask the question: " What is religious knowledge? " Your answer to this, perhaps the ultimate question of all, is...

SIR,—In The Spectator of August 1st " Janus " pointed out the difi• culty that magistrates had in dealing with motoring offences com• mined by soldiers I fancy that when a man...

say precisely and exactly which of my ideas originated " east of the Rhine." As far as I know the greater number of them were distilled from the sweat, blood and tears of many...

SIR,—Mr. Brogan is entitled to his own judgement in reaching constitutional and political conclusion which is the opposite of that reached by an ex-Lord Chancellor and the late...

SIR,—I should not ask for editorial indulgence in replying to Mr. Bates's letter in your issue of August 8th if England and the Farmer were my book, as he persists, by speaking...

Slit,—In your issue of August 1st you published a letter from " Holborn Warden " complaining of the ineffectiveness of the Eadc- out at the Ministry of Information. To this...

SIR,—Your reviewer of Senor Arturo Barea's two recently publish books is correct in taking to task the publishers of the smaller v , on Spain for referring to The Forge (Faber)...

Sm,—May I supplement the facts about Switzerland in " A Spectator's Notebook " in your issue of August 8th by stating that the number o( the national languages is now not three...

Max Werner. (Gollancz. 75. 6d.) THIS is an extraordinarily interesting book, and it would lack much of its appeal if it did not contain numerous statements which one cannot fail...

The Men and the Idea o the Finland Station : A Study in the Writing and Acting of History. By Edmund Wilson. (Seeker and Warburg. as.) N the night of April r6th, 1917, Lenin...

Total Victory. By Stephen King-Hall. (Faber and Faber. 75. 6d.) • COMMANDER KING-HALL, as everyone knows, is a profound believer in what is sometimes dignified with the name...

Artist Quarter. By Charles Douglas. (Faber and Faber. as.) Tins is a very readable history of those two mountains s Bohemia: Montmartre and Montparnasse. Against them posed the...

THERE is something very fascinating about the subject of wool, " the sovereign merchandise and jewel of the realm of England " as it was described in the Ordinance of the Staple...

[[mental Education. By Gustave Flaubert. Translated by Anthony Goldsmith. (Everyman's Library. 2S. 6d.) ducation Sentimentale stands in the first six, perhaps in the t three,...

Case in the Clinic. By E. C. R. Lorac. (Crime Club. 7s. 6d.) 7s. 6d.) Case in the Clinic would be an excellent example of the English type of detective-story but for the...

Remember Greece. By Dilys Powell. (Hodder and Stoughton. 75. MISS POWELL, who is the film-critic of the Sunday Times, whose late husband was Director of the British School...

book " is struck by the reflection that an exacter word !nigh! found. In actual fact, is it very judicious to quote and rec a recipe for use in cancer cases, made from...

McDOUGALLS TRUST DIVIDEND MAINTAINED MR. KENNETH MOORE'S STATEMENT THE eighth annual ordinary general meeting of McDougalls Trust, Limited, was held on Tuesday, August 12th, in...

By CUSTOS AFTER the optimistic predictions of a new tap loan on terms which would mean a fresh screwing-down of investment yields, Sir Kingsley Wood's announcement of the...

kind that ask for "half a pound of lump sugar, a quarter of a pound of butter and a quarter of a pint of cream" and the directions to add a table spoon of lemon juice to this or...

[A prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the tender of the *et correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked with the...

CLIMAX ROCK DRILL AND ENGINEERING WORKS THE twenty-eighth annual ordinary general meeting of the Climai Rock Drill and Engineering Works, Limited, was held today at tht...

P IE viE E N s SOLUTION ON AUGUST 29th The winner of Crossword No. x25 is Mr. Frank W. Stanwell, 7, Kew Road, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Higgison,