A NOTHER week has been spent in North Africa in the barren round of agreement, rumoured disagreement, disagreement, rumoured agreement. We are apparently in the phase of...

An important and essential step towards the restoration of occupied Europe has been taken in the creation of a new body destined to be known as U.N.R.R.A.—the United Nations...

There has been no more striking indication of the movement of opinion in America than the fact that last Tuesday the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives...

If ever the German "New Order" came into being it would be on the basis of loot organised on a scale never dreamed of before. Nazi Germany has been seizing the ownership and...

The stand which is being made by the Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches in Holland against the latest barbarities of the Nazis commands the admiration of the world. First...

An outstanding feature of the fighting in Libya and more recently in Tunisia has been the perfect co-operation between the Air Force and the Army—and it should be added that the...

President Roosevelt is faced with a difficult decision. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives have passed the Anti- Strike and Labour Control Bill, a measure designed...

Lord Woolton, speaking at Cardiff last Tuesday, warned his audience that for a number of years to come there will be a world shortage of food. He was speaking not primarily of...

HE dissolution of the Comintern," wrote Dr. Reinhold I Niebuhr in The Spectator a fortnight ago, "leaves non- ussian Communists in a state of confusion, for they have been...

S INCE Common Wealth took to running candidates, and succeeded in getting one of them in (on a minority vote), the question of whether that success was a mere flash in the pan...

By STRATEGICUS land. is theoretically a tougher proposition than we may expect to find elsewhere." Another, Mr. E. A. Montague, writes: "Never again shall we encounter anything...

By DR. REINHOLD NIEBUHR A CIVILISATION which has faced, and is surmounting, an immediate and obvious peril of such magnitude as has been confronted in the past four years is...

By THE RT. HON. WALTER ELLIOT, M.P. A LITTLE while ago I commented on the tradition of war song in America. War song does not exist in England ; it is difficult to say why,...

By DR. R. L. KITCHING T HE cry is all for a new comprehensive medical service, and all sorts of schemes are proposed, varying from a whole-time State medical service to a modest...

By J. M. LAWRENCE T HIS month and next more people than ever before in this island—professionals and amateurs alike—will be turning their attention to what the Elizabethan...

By HAROLD NICOLSON W E have all of us, since the victories of Hamman Lif and Bou Ficha, been poring over our maps of the Mediterranean, scanning with a fresh form of...

Odeon. THE CINEMA Im The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger have set out to slay a dragon and have finished up by staying for a peg in the...

Some Contemporary MUSIC THE last of Messrs. Boosey and Hawkes's concerts of contemporary music contained only one new work, a concertino for nine instru- ments, wind and...

"Sweet and Low." At the Ambassadors.—" The Moon is Down." At the Whitehall.—" The Russians." At the Playhouse. " The Sadler's Wells Ballet." At the New. FIRST place must be...

as deriving its sinister significance from Abyssinia's member- ship of the League, remarks: "How and why Abyssinia came to be a member of the League is another story." Surely...

TO THE EDITOR LETTERS Sut,—Lord Vansittart's letter of May 29th does not controvert the facts set out in my letter to you. He repeats the explanation given in chap. iv of his...

advance a copy of his fresh letter to you. It may be convenient if I answer it for simul- taneous publication. Lord Perth admits that he did not recommend to Ministers the...

I fear may cause a stormy correspondence, arid yet it is one on which I feel it is not right to be silent? It is a common saying' that truth is the first casualty in war. Since...

in holding that Governments anxious to evade troublesome duties could have evaded them more light- heartedly if Abyssinia had not been a member of the League, but he is not...

Sta.—May an Irishman living in Ireland and one who served with the Royal Air Force in the last war be allowed to make one or two comments on the article entitled "Censorship in...

SIR,—What woukl you say of a motor-car so little efficient that it needed a donkey to supply just that bit of extra power necessary to make it move on level ground? That seems...

among the so- called "well-to-do" classes is psycholog;cal as well as physical. At present the well-to-do woman, though she may be freed from financial worries, lends the life...

SIR,—The writer of the article entitled "What Education Is" in your issue of May 28th is much out of date in his remarks about the teaching of French today. In 5912 the Board of...

Sta, — Will someone, through The Spectator, undertake to explain to mothers why an increase in the birth-rate is essential? Most of us either don't understand or else mistrust...

Sta,—Sir Henry Lawrence does well to point out the enormous poten- tialities of our modem productive system—the "real credit" of the nation—and is quite right in placing his...

in your issue of June a Ith confirms my original fears that the distinction between "unconditional surrender" and its antonym " armistice " is not being adequately stressed. The...

WHAT is the earliest date at which harvest has opened in England? The earliest within the circle of my information is June 30th. A fine farmer who exercised his craft where now...

Sta,—A protest ought to be made against the binding of the Government pamphlet, Combined Operations. I could not read it at all without con- tortions and discomfort, until I cut...

Sta,—Mr. Sumner Welles desires the post-war provision of an armed force contributed by the nations willing, and also the establishment of an international tribunal. But he omits...

Against Oblivion. By Sheila Birkenhead. (Cassell. 12s. 6d.) THIS book is so nearly good that it desaves severe criticism for not being better. Joseph Severn (for it is he who,...

Architects and Reconstruction People's Homes. Mass Observation. (Murray. tos4 As time wears on each trade and professional pressure group turns out its impartial, non-party and...

Pax Britamericana. The Future of the United States, Cagada and the British Empire. By John MacCormac. (Routledge. los. 6d.) The Coming Future : A Prescription. By Carl Dreher....

Chinese Cookery. By M. P. Lee. (Faber. 35. 6d.) Simple Salads. By Ambrose Heath. (Faber. 35. 6c1.) SINC.E the earliest times the preparing and eating of food has played a most...

'By Sir William H. Beveridge. (Allen and Unwin. 6s.) Beveridge THE various papers which are brought together in this volume were written between the beginning of February,...

Late and Soon. By E. M. Delafield. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d.) While the Music Lasted. By Kitty Berne. (Chapman and Hall. 8s. 6d.) The Interpreter. By Philip Gibbs. (Hutchinson....

The winner of Crossword No. 221 is F. E. BuLuvANT, Esq., 62 Hillmorton Road, Rugby.

IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, Yune 29th. Envelopes...

By GUSTOS WHEN it is plain even to the man in the street that in the military sense we are now experiencing the lull before the storm it would be foolish to look for much...

INTO her notebook Miss Sitwell has collected aphorisms on various aspects of poetry and the poets from a selection of authorities, all themselves artists, and she doe;...

.Oxford Um- , versity Press. 6s.) THIS is a pleasant little anthology which without much evident purpose serves all the same to call to remembrance some forgotten excellences...

I25. 6d.) THERE are not many more moving stories in history than the record of the American Civil War. It has been told again and again—in straightforward historists, in lives...

15s.) THIS book has been a great success in America, and is a refreshing account of the Wild West before it was discovered by Hollywood. More than fifty years ago, when Mrs....