Salerno are, the latest messages received as we go to press encourage NEWS OF THE WEEK the belief that the position will be held till the flow of reinforce- ments and the...

For nearly a year Hitler has played little part on the public stage in Germany. His broadcast last Friday was the first considerable public pronouncement he has made since his...

Owing to the long delay between the fall of Mussolini and the signing of an armistice Badoglio's Government has no longer the power to carry out all its terms ; for the Germans...

A refreshing air of detachment marked many of the speeches at a week-end conference on the medical services called by the National Association of Local Government Officers and...

Nothing succeeds like success, and the success of the Allies has enabkd Persia to dLlare war on Germany and range herself openly on the side of the United Nations. Belligerent...

Much the most important feature of Mr. Cordell Hull's address on American foreign policy last Saturday was his full recognition of the sanction that must govern effective...

Events in the west should not obscure from us the grimness and the importance of the relentless war that is being waged in the tropical islands of the South Pacific. Step by...

The United States Congress resumed work on Tuesday after the summer recess and at once struck an attitude at variance with the President. The fact that just as the executive was...

T HE spate of literature on education continues. To the Board of Education's White Paper, the Norwood Report and the first instalment of the Fleming Report the past week has...

F ROM what I hear in more quarters than one the successes of the Royal Air Force against Germany have in two respects been more considerable than is commonly appreciated....

By STRATEGICUS A BOUT the arrangement of the Armistice it is still too early to speak ; the full details cannot yet be known ; but what is certain is the fact that the fall of...

By ROBERT POWELL T HE unconditional surrender of Italy has been received with fearful expectations in the Balkans, where it is assumed that Anglo-American landings will take...

By QUINTIN NOGG, M.P. " There was one voice . . that free from the slang of faction had dared to express immortal truths: the voice of a noble who without being a demagogue...

By JOHN ROTHENSTEIN (Director of the Tate Gallery) At first, C.E.M.A.'s contribution to meeting this demand was con- fined to the support, by a financial grant, of an...

By M. CLARKE-HALL T HYSICAL fitness," said the Brigade Major, " is the most important attribute of the modern soldier." An awful hush fell on the ante-room. Nervous Liaison...

WE say glibly that harvest was nearly finished-in August ; but how many other harvests remain! The apples are so numerous as almost to defy picking Indeed, great numbers will be...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I N the excitement of the last few days, when triumph or dis- appointment have succeeded each other almost hourly, Adolf Hitler's speech of a week ago has...

BALLET DESPITE the possibly superior musical claims of The Sleeping Princess and even of Casse-Noisette, The Swan Lake is, taken all round, the best of the full-length...

THE CINEMA IT is no longer permissible for the critic, faced with a film on a specialised theme, to ignore the subject-matter and to recommend the production to his readers...

THE THEATRE AMERICA takes her drama seriously. Classes in the craft of play- making are held at her leading universities, and, most important to the young playwright, his...

show admirably the mind of normal right-wing Prussianised Germany, but are somewhat unjust to Thomas Mann himself. They do not mention his conversion. He started as a right-wing...

the "moral insanity of the German people " which started the war in 1939 was economic, due to the Treaty of Versailles and in some way or other the fault of -the victorious...

" Hitler established his power ' leg ally' only after having created the excuse for banishing the about 8o Communists from the derisive [?misprint for 'decisive') Reichstag...

perhaps less fundamental than he imagines. I believe that good economics come out of a human being with good intentions, rather than good intentions coming out from satisfactory...

forming a judgement on this problem than Professor Karl Barth, and, while it is being discussed, it is worth while taking note of his considered estimate (in his letter to the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—I wonder whether many of your readers disliked Phyllis Bottome's article in your issue of September 3rd as violently as I did—not all, but much of...

sm,—I regret that my letter in your issue of August z7th provided one of your correspondents, Mr. Howard Lees, with " an unanswerable argument" for giving up The Spectator after...

Sta,—Your correspondent, Mr. Scholes, asks' " is there any means of putting an end to the atrociously bad manners of the less thinking of our countrymen towards coloured people?...

Six,—Lady Lothian's solution to the problem of youth is the re- education of the whole of mankind in the Christian faith: has she forgotten that the vast, preponderating mass of...

have permission to quote a letter I received the other day. It runs—" Thank you so much for The Spectator that arrived today. They come as a great joy, as we feel the lack of...

Sut,—The election of a Patriarch of Moscow and of all Russia is a significant event. As Dr. Rushbrooke writes in your issue of September loth, it witnesses to the abiding...

SIR,—Nothing could be more informative with regard to our twentieth century social discontent than the article by Mr. Quintin Hogg and the letter of " E. W. L.": taken together,...

in The Spectator of September zoth under the title " Why Submerged? " requires an answer. Snt,—I feel that the 'letter of E. W. L. printed in The Spectator of September zoth...

SIR,—On Sunday -we attended Westminster Abbey morning service, in accordance with His Majesty's wish that we give thanks for the success of our arms in Italy. After joining in a...

SIR, In the News of the Week of your issue of September zoth, you comment on Mr. Curtin's suggestions for the future of . the British Commonwealth and ask what the federation...

Lothian on a great piece of work. May I add as a footnote that the return, to be effective, must be to genuine Christianity as taught by Christ and not to the miserable...

The Economics of 1960. By Colin Clark. (Macmillan. Ss. 6d.) MR. COLIN CLARK iS the most courageous explorer and manipulator of statistics now working in the field of economic...

A Blast From Scotland Lucky Poet. By Hugh MacDiarmid. (Methuen. ais.) MR. MACDIARMID trails his coat so successfully from one end to another of this " Self-study in Literature...

Return to Happiness. By Jonas Lied. (Macmillan. 'Ss.) MR. LIED is a Norwegian engineer, trader, and financier, who nearly made history—economic history, at all events—by his...

Birth, Poverty and 'Wealth. fly R. M.-Timms. (Hanish Hamilton. 7s. 6d.) IN every problem involving human beings in the mass there arr.: imponderable factors that defy...

Makers of Destruction. By Hermann Rauschning. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. r5s.) GERMANS like long speeches, protracted sermons and discursive books. Of the 36o pages of this one at...

So Near To Heaven. By Mary Lutyens. (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6d.) " Soho likes Rooshans and some likes Prooshans "—though even Mrs. Gamp could hardly get away with such broad...

The winner of Crossword No. 234 is MRS. DAVID, Winchester. Culver Cottage,

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By CUSTOS THESE are puzzling days for investors. It is not merely that it is still anybody's guess whether final victory is relatively dose at hand or far off ; but none of us...

Shorter Notices the Fleet the Lord Keyes. (Cambridge University Press. 4s. 6d.) Tuts volume , contains the text of the Lees Knowles lectures delivered at Cambridge this year....

mond. 6s.) THIS clearly-written and well-arranged account of the organisation and weapons of the German Army will be a valuable reference book. It will be useful not only to...