and Free Churchmen, including the Deans of Chichester and Rochester, who have visited Spain this month to try to discover the facts regarding the position of the Churches in the...

T O have secured complete agreement (apart from the always equivocal Portugal) on the banning of volunteers to Spain at this late hour is a great deal better than not securing...

for a new Church Synod in Germany has come as a surprise, and means what it may prove to mean. The Confessional Church has been justified in the resoluteness of its stand for...

the French Prime Minister, showed himself well aware that his Govern- ment's social policy may be wrecked by the rise in prices. So far the Government's expectation that,...

Japan, formed with the approval of the military authorities who had laid their ban on General Ugaki's proposed administration, is in being, but no one is likely to rate its...

debating the defence proposals on Wednesday the House of Lords was engaged in discussing an important motion by Lord Noel Buxton on the subject of colonies. The motion advocated...

the Rumanian Govern- ment to resent the action of the diplomats of six countries in attending the funeral of two members of an illegal and terrorist organisation—the Iron Guard....

the right-wing Agrarian Prime Minister, as President of Finland on Monday, was a defeat for the pro-German and anti-Soviet policy of the retiring President, Du Svinhufvud ; it...

whole did well in concealing the dilemma in which the Opposition fmd themselves. Their disinclination to trust this particular Government with so much as an air pistol cannot be...

of State " is rather profitable to the National Government, for it has little to fear when no vital issues divide the parties. It will always win elections so long as Government...

and certainly the most popular of the Under- Secretaries, and there is a fairly general hope that his compara- tive youth will not prevent him in the forthcoming ministerial...

reading unopposed in the House of Commons on Monday night. Labour could not desire the rejection of a Bill which confers such benefits on the worker. The Opposition indeed fully...

Monday to the Coal Industry Society, Mr. Ebby Edwards, General Secretary of the Mine- workers' Federation, made a suggestion that if adopted might well lead to more conciliatory...

M.P.'s appears to have organised a concerted barrage of questions to the Postmaster-General on the subject of the alleged Leftward tendencies of the B.B.C. They have brought...

House whistled audibly when the Chancellor of the Exchequer came to the words "four hundred millions" in his announcement of Thursday of last week. But within a day or two...

T HE essential statement in the Government's White Paper on defence expenditure, coming at the end of the last but one of its 42 clauses, is that "it would be imprudent to...

T ' population question has exercised many minds lately ; and indeed the results of recent researches into the subject have been precise and significant enough to ensure that it...

P REDICTIONS about the result of the Oxford University Election can have only a flimsy basis. There is little doubt that if the vote were confined to resident members of the...

By RICHARD FREUND - A T close quarters the contours of the picture which seemed so clear when seen from London become blurred. Beneath the fresh coating of Fascist dictatorship...

By GEOFFREY CROWTHER Apart from the continuance of a formidable total of unem- ployment, almost every classical sign of boom times is already beginning to appear. Prices and...

By THOMAS MANN I F the modern masses were merely primitive, if they were merely happy barbarians, we could come to terms with them and even hope much of them. But they have two...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A POLICEMAN of the London area and a professor of London University have both of them asked me the same questions during the last few days : (t) Is...

Par ANDRE MAUROIS "L OOKING back from this my seventieth year, it seems to me that every card in my working life has been dealt to me in such a manner that I had but to play as...

By W. V. EMANUEL rpHE gun foundries of the world are working at top pressure ; they have not been so busy since 1918. The largest of them are at work on naval orders. At the...

By J. S. COLLIS T HAVE wished that my search had been less real, and I that that which I found had not been there. But he who seeks for a city and finds it where I found it may...

"Tan SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY I 8TH, 1837. The only piece of Spanish news worth mentioning is the arrival at St. Sebastian of a reinforcement to General EVANS. That opera- tions on...

By E. E. KELLETT I recall also how, after I had been talking for years of the great Frenchman Dupleix as Duplay, I found that a Parisian friend of mine had never heard of the...

Commonwealth and Foreign FROM A SPECIAL- CORRESPONDENT THERE is no doubt about the present popularity of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty with the Egyptian people. Sir Miles...

as the author of three volumes of Memoirs, edited and completed by Hazlitt, which still make delectable reading. Most of his life he spent struggling against misfortune, and...

Hamburg strike put down by machine-guns, of the German strike delegate to the U.S.S.R. who settles down as an engineer in the country where the revolution is already won, until...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] VOR hundert Jahren starben in Europa in einer Woche drei Dichter, die auch ausser der Gleichzeitigkeit litres Todes in ihrem Leben und...

MUSIC IT has been suggested that Bach came under the influence of Baroque Art ; but, although no doubt examples of the influence might be adduced, his music generally seems to...

War on the Wood-Pigeon Farmers have announced the organisation of serious war, at last, on the wood-pigeon, that symbolically peaceful bird so powerfully beautiful in flight...

to point out to "Janus," who i; scornful of pacifist criticism of the Government's anti-air raid precautions, that there are at least three pieces of evidence which anyone with...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitabb length is that of one of our "News of the Week"...

behalf of the Cambridge Scientists' Anti- War Group, to the questions of your Contributor " Janus " in The Spectator of last week ? In the first place, our own statements on...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I hope Professor Berriedale Keith will forgive me for again pointing out that he uses the expression" Irish National" when he- means to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sitt,—The Headmaster of Repton shows a better appreciation than most believing Christians of the difficulties inherent in the Archbishop of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —May I try to clear the discussion of this subject from some confusions ? One may, I think, distinguish three senses of the term " reason...

whether, if Mr. Christie's young friend had gone on Sunday morning to an Anglo- Catholic church he would have found the service "duller than ever," though perhaps it might not...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Si,—Mr. Muntz persists in suggesting that to sell below the fixed price is the same thing as to sell unprofitably. He is mistaken. I do not...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Herr Hitler repudiates the French idea of "indivisible peace." He is only interested in bilateral treaties. Any kind of understanding...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Si,—Dr. Shackleton Bailey's article opens a wide field or discussion. He begins with a criticism of the Burnham scale and the immobility it...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Lt.-Col. Butler's opinion as to the relative responsibilities of France and Italy for intervention in Spain is of importance to nobody...

"Jew-ridden France" as the chief offender in the Spanish War is distinctly comic, as it is reported that General Franco's paymaster, the man who found the francs for General...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—From time to time I see pathetic letters in the Press about the wrongs of unpaid tradesmen. I have always tried to pay my tradesmen by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—During the last eight or nine months of the War I was a prisoner of war at Maintz, and therefore had a good opportunity of seeing the...

Stit,—I thank you for the answer to my letter. But my point does not seem to have been made clear. Are we not bound to wait for the League's pronouncement before deciding which...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] certainly gathered from the letter of the two doctors that Herr Ossietzky was still in captivity. Nevertheless, I am still convinced that it...

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Miss SPENS has produced a contribution to Christology of great originality and importance, which must interest all serious students of the New Testament, and beyond this all...

BY the publication of The National Income 1924-1931 Mr. Colin Clark is already acknowledged as one of the first authorities on the statistical measurement of the National...

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The Letters of Lenin. Translated by Elizabeth Hill and Doris Mudie. (Chapman and Hall. 555.) ABOUT a thousand of Lenin's letters have been published. Nearly all of them are to...

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CURRENT LITERATURE By William Brown Dr. Brown, who is the Wilde Reader of Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford, has compiled this short book (Oxford University Press,...

Readers of Lasseter's Last Ride will welcome a new book by Mr. Idriess, chronicler of life in the wilder places of Australia. He is not a journalist ex- ploiting the story...

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childhood days in the country and written a delightful con- tinuation to The Country Child. Ambush of Young Days (Faber and Faber, 7$. 6d.) • will perhaps be too sweet for some...

By George Dunn The author of Ten Days Off (Cape, 7s. 6d.) is a soldier by profession, but a writer by nature, and an account of barracks life by him slottld be illumin- ating;...

This book (Cape, Jos. 6d:)-,purports to be a survey of dictatorships from Solon to Hitler, presenting .art analysis' of their nature and of the reasons for their occuirence. It...

WHATEVER views one may hold about Mr. Chamberlain's proposals for financing the defence scheme, it is at least quite clear that the internal purchasing power of the country is...

FINANCE ALTHOUGH since about the middle of January British Funds have shown an easier tendency, the decline was not really note- worthy until last week, when just after the...

DISTURBED MARKETS. As noted in another column, the outstanding event of the past week has been the debacle in Government securities resulting from the statement in the House of...

BY ZENO IA prize of one guinea will be green to the sender of the first correct solution of Mir week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked" Crossword...

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