problem on a later page was of necessity in type before the debate on the question in the House of Commons on Wednesday, there is no reason to revise, in the light of the...

of the Reichsbank, to Brussels has a special interest in that it provides M. van Zeeland, the Belgian Prime Minister, with an opportunity to open his enquiries into the...

the dominant fact in the Indian political situation today is not the deadlock between Congress and the Governors in six provinces, but the existence in five others of Ministries...

no means unusual, difference between the decisions of the United States Supreme Court on April 12th which have made a sensation in America. The Court has upheld the crucial...

Minister of Rumania is at present out of office, no one doubts that he will again be a force in his own country and in international affairs. Considerable importance therefore...

strength the Government will pursue its work in the national interest." That assertion, made by the Prime Minister of Belgium on the evening his spectacular victory over the...

equalised (apart from the Prime Minister's, and, with less justice, the Lord Chancellor's) there can be no objection, and none worth speaking of was expressed in the House of...

on the abolition of capitulations in Egypt has opened in an atmosphere of marked cordiality should not inspire excessive optimism. A result reasonably satisfactory to Egypt will...

ordinary channels of party controversy. He roundly attacked Mr. Greenwood for his contention that a salary to the Leader of the Opposition meant official recognition of the...

made a speech more difficult for the Government to answer than any that has come from the Opposition benches in this Parliament, and at the end he received a thoroughly deserved...

his introduction of the second reading of the Ministers of the Crown Bill, which makes provision for the raising of the Ministerial salaries. He has a real enthusiasm for...

of Commons on Tuesday Captain Crookshank made it clear that the real obstacle to compromise in the dispute in the Nottingham- shire coalfield is the question of" victimisation "...

the House of Commons on Tuesday, railing attention to " the widespread evidence of malnutrition amongst large sections of the population " gave the Minister of Health, Sir...

announce- ment on Monday of the decision of the Government with regard to ships proceeding to Bilbao found the Opposition in an unusually truculent mood. They began by demanding...

One of the most serious effects of the boom conditions prevailing in several industries and of the demands of rearma- ment for goods and services is dearly illustrated by the...

M R. BALDWIN'S announcement to his constituents at Bcwdley was in a sense no surprise. For well over a year there had been the rumour that he would resign " after the...

T HE Foreign Secretary is, as he should be, the best exponent of the Government's foreign policy. The support which that policy has found and continues to find depends very...

S PEAKING at the luncheon given on Tuesday to celebrate the return of Sir Arthur Salter and Mr. Edmund Harvey as Members for Oxford University and the Combined English...

By SIR ARTHUR WILLERT ( This is the second of a series of six articles which Sir Arthur Willert, who has just returned from the United Stales, is writing for THE SPECTATOR on...

By BONAMY DOBREE O NE need not call her eccentric ; she was, rather, centrifugal, for to her breeding at least she was true. In her vigorous person wrestled the incentricity of...

By W. V. EMANUEL When the revolt broke out, the various units of the Spanish Navy were unevenly divided in their allegiance. One of the two old 15,000-ton battleships, both the...

By Dr. C. P. SNOW It is worth while examining these two claims. The first is : science as part of the individual human being's experience, part of his mental cultivation and...

By GEORGE SAMPSON A LL that need be said about this book* by way of review is that, in market value, at two shillings for six hundred pages, and in practical value as a...

By JOHN RAYNOR D USK was falling, and a thick white mist was creeping in from the sea as the baby car drew up in the silence of the little yard that faced the inn. It was a...

By E. L. WOODWARD I ONCE heard someone read Tennyson's Tithonus in the presence of Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth. The reader almost broke down with emotion. " The woods decay, the...

Commonwealth and Foreign By C. F. ANDREWS DURING a recent journey round the world, I went to India by the Panama route, visiting the Fiji Islands, New Zealand and Australia....

THE THEATRE " Henry V." By William Shakespeare. At the Old Vic MR. TYRONE GUTHRIE'S production rightly insists that this is a good play, not just a bad Tattoo ; and the...

" Elephant Boy." At the Leicester Square Theatre MR. ROBERT FLAHERTY is said to have spent more than a year in India gathering material for this picture : a scene of elephants...

By Leo Ferrero. The Stage Society. At the Westminster Theatre Anna Christie is, with one obvious exception, about the least successful of all Mr. O'Neill's plays ; it is only...

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The Opera Season " SOMETHING had better be done about this Royal Italian Opera." That is not a quotation from Sir Thomas Beecham's latest speech, which was concerned with the...

An Exciting Week The most exciting week of the year, at least for the naturalist, has arrived. In my records, which concern the parts just north of London, nightingales are...

subject of the prison officer has brought forth a vehement denial from Mr. Mark Burney that he has ever commented adversely on the prison service. I never accused him of doing...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Six,—Behind Dr. Shackleton Bailey's plea in last week's Spectator for the teaching of the elements of a wider range of sciences in schools,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [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"...

" certainly does not exaggerate the conditions in some of the licensed houses for mental patients. The monopoly for keeping certified patients was, in some cases, acquired a...

Sm,—I have followed closely the correspondence in The Spictator regarding the conditions in mental hospitals. While being in complete agreement with those who deplore the...

Sm,—Perhaps you will allow me space to reply to the relevant points in Mr. Arnold Lunn's devastating letter published in The Spectator of April 9th? To Mr. Lunn white is white,...

SOUTHWARD THRUST [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—I have read with much interest Mr. Chamberlin's article in the last issue of The Spectator on " Japan's southward...

SiR,—Mr. Harry Price, in arguing that, because Kuda Bux was unable to " see " with his head tied up in a bag, his claims must be considered invalid, seems to be at fault on a...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In The Spectator of April 2nd, Mr. E. L. Woodward states : " If he—i.e., Rudyard Kipling—had turned upon the brass-hats who had given less thought to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECrATOR.] SIR,—Miss Margaret Collins of the B.U.F. attempts officially to rebut the anti-Fascist charge of State supremacy with the usual bluff about "...

Snt, — Your novel reviewer, Miss E. B. C. Jones, blames the French author of Trojan Horse for making a railwayman and a small shopkeeper talk like " working intellectual Com-...

Sta,—In his .moving article " Guns and Carbohydrates " Mr. Michael Spender draws a picture of a most important aspect of present-day life in Germany, which apparently escapes...

SIR,—In one of its usually logical "News of the Week" para- graphs, The Spectator last week compares the efficacy of air-raid wardens, in adding to the possibility of future...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By LAWRENCE ATHILL I HAVE before me three books on the Abyssinian war written by a retired British Officer, an American journalist and a Marshal of Italy. I...

Victoria's Guardian Angel. A Study of Baron Stockmar. By Pierre Crabites. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) Tins study of Baron Stockmar, by Judge Pierre Crabites, is called Victoria's...

I SUPPOSE that I am in most respects a normal person, and that my feelings do not differ from those of most normal persons when I open the newspaper and see that yet another...

ANYTHING - that Dr. Kagawa writes deserves attention on account both of his character and his achievethent. Many of his judgements and some of his statements of fact may require...

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (1806-1820). Edited by Ernest de Selincourt. Two vols. (Oxford Univer- sity Press. 42s.) The Early Wordsworth. By Ernest de...

SINCE the devil is credited with finding work for idle hands to do, the devil, it would seem, must be held responsible 'for a good many of the biographies that have been...

BOOKS about Eton are many and various. The latest addition to their number, the authors of which are two eminent house- masters well known to successive generations of Etonians,...

I THINK it was Mr. Kneale who first thought of dividing con- temporary British philosophers into narrow analysts and vague uplifters. This division has recently acquired a...

She Was a Queen. By Maurice Collis. (Faber. 15s.) IT was in the year 1829 that King Bagyidaw of Burma, Sovereign of the Umbrella-holding Kings and Master of the White Elephant,...

Not So Deep as a Well. By Dorothy Parker. (Hamish Hamilton. 6s.) A Good Time Was Had By All. By Stevie Smith. (Cape. _ss.) THESE two books recall sharply to my mind the...

A Cardinal of the Medici. By Mrs. Hicks Beach. (Cambridge University Press. 15s.) THE Medici were a remarkable family. By dexterous use of their wealth, and by skilfully...

Controverses autour de Trole. Par Charles Vellay. (Paris : Societe d'Edition " Les Belles Lettres.") WHEN Schliemann plunged his spade into the mound of Hissarlik in •the...

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By J. H. Duveen The secrets Mr. Duveen exposes are mostly concerned with the shady side of art-dealing. He has many good stories to tell of the intrigues, dishonesty, violence,...

Shri Meher Baba is an Indian mystic, of Persian origin, who claims to be a Messiah. This is a biography (Williams and Norgate, 12s. 6d.) and an 'exposition of his teachings....

This series of essays (Lane, los. 6d.), reprinted from the Daily Herald, is a calendar of. country - life, of birds, plants, animals, the weather. Mr. Powys can evoke a pictt re...

a year's work on a farm on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. She had only one assistant, and they had contracts with the Milk Marketing Board, which she likes, and the Pig...

4 it possible to combine safety in investment today with a yield not - far short of 5 per cent. ? I have been asked this question so often in recent weeks that I feel I owe...

FINANCE WITHIN a few days from the appearance of this article, Mr. Neville Chamberlain will have presented his Budget and all secrets with regard to taxation proposals will...

an encouraging one, both as regards active business and profits. The profit in the Fire Account is just a trifle lower than in the previous year at £175,465, but it represented...

FALL IN GOLD SHARES. THE outstanding feature of markets during the past week has been the heavy fall in Gold shares. Ostensibly the slump was entirely due to reports cabled...

The. winner of Crossword No. 237 Miss_ P. Sioarrow, 3o Castlecroft Gardens, Wolverhampton.

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