with NEWS OF THE WEEK their triumph at Kharkov, are sweeping irresistibly westwards, and prosecuting in all sectors of their front offensives .of which little lths been heard...

The Nazi policy of the extermination of the Jews is being prose- cuted with increasing savagery. Stories which have reached the British Section of the World Jewish Congress, to...

The medical reports regarding Mr. Gandhi's condition, after the first eight days of the fast which he began on February 9th, make it necessary to realise that the result may...

An address given to the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee last week by Sir Robert Robinson, the Waynflete e Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, is important both for what it...

Steps are to be taken without delay to improve the salaries and working conditions of women hospital nurses. The Rushcliffe Com- mittee, appointed by the Ministry of Health in...

Lord Nuffield's new gift of £10,000,000 to "The Nuffield Foundation " dwarfs even the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and the Pilgrim Trust. It is to be administered by seven...

With the hour of victory coming, as we hope, appreciably nearer, the country is looking to Ministers for light and leading about the future handling of the problem of peace ;...

Though the wa? will not be won by meetings between statesmen or by speeches, the speeches of such men as Mr. Churchill and President Roose.velt, following Casablanca, are a sure...

I T is deplorable that the relationship between the Government and the large body of Members of the House of Commons of all parties who welcome and support the Beveridge scheme...

A RE we, I wonder, heading up for a political debacle that will be described in retrospect as " When Labour Slept "? In June another application from the Communist Party for...

By STRATEC ICUS T HE great victories at Knarkov, Rostov and Voroshilovgrad over- shadow every other incident of the war ; and yet it is impossible to consider them apart from...

By GEORGE SCOTT The Emperor Paul I, an ardent admirer of Frederick the Great, first introduced Prussianism into military training. And yet the Russian Army was never in the...

By SIR NORMAN BENNETT It is unnecessary today to stress the great prevalence of dental diseases in this country and the amount of ill-health, lowered vitality and diminished...

By F. R. DALE* The nation also accepts responsibility for secondary education— at least it provides it, is about to extend it, and is likely to pay, entirely, for a good deal...

By EVELYN SIMPSON I HOPE that some day someone will write a plain, unvarnished account of what it means to be a Professional Woman in the 194o's. I don't mean the glamorous "...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I T is said that the modern generation has no sense of wonder. In 1843, for instance, the Vicar's little boy at Market Harborough would have thought of the...

Victor Pasmore. At the Redfern Gallery. "To a true artist, and to the living imagination, the cliché is the deadly enemy. Cezanne had a bitter fight against it. He hammered it...

OUR pinpoint on the coast of France Showed through the breaking cloud ; a lance Of moonlight struck the sleeping town And shivered into silver light Which danced like stars...

- Pittsburgh." At the New Gallery. " Tomorrow We Live." At the Regal. Pittsburgh, the story of two aggressively masculine friends who fight their way up from poverty to power,...

THE THEATRE WHAT a civilised play! And to think that it is a play that ordinarily no theatrical management would touch, while even in war-time, with a public keyed up to finer...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR, —The Headmaster of Parmiter's School, in supporting the non- i.tllaborationist policy of the L.C.C., does not use the language of exagger- ation when...

Mr. R. Williams, of Towyn, who regards it as wrong for Public SChools " to have their own Conference " (like the T.U.C., or the N.U.T., or indeed any organised body), their own...

Sta,—As one with a perverse taste for statistics I read Mr. H. J. Massingham's jeremiad, " The Old Days," with great interest, in par- ticular the phrase " . . . those 3,700,000...

only of the L.C.C. but of other Education Authorities in the developing of Secondary Schools—but if we are honest we must acknowledge our indebtedness to the Public Schools in...

economic fallacies revealed in the flood of " Beveridge Report " correspondence were exposed? None of these is more misleading than the assumption, seemingly taken quite for...

Sut,—Your article on the above subject in the issue of February 12th raises one very interesting point. Mr. Reynolds says, " Since the institution of the listening unit,...

SIR, —Mr. Angus Watson's letter represents the view of many disinterested, but hesitant, business men. Nevertheless is it entirely free from that spirit of defeatism which was...

Spy—Will you permit me as a temporary turner working in industry, who a lso happens to be an economist and a clergyman, to comment upon Angus Watson's letter? All of us not in...

1920-30 is so controversial that I will not attempt to reply to it. Those who care to do so may refer to the relevant records of the period, and form their own conclusions. He,...

on "Mr. Low's Degrees," that the title of Professor lapses " with the relinquishment of the Chair to which it is attached," it is presumably inaccurate to accord the title to...

SIR,—In your issue of February 12th " Janus " does less than justice to Basic English. So intelligently and skilfully has the selection of words been made that an astonishing...

by Oxford, in the days before they came into Mr. ffennels's ownership, survives one very vivid memory, It is not of the fine trees, not of the vista where you first see the...

SIR,—Mr. Herbert Morrison, in his survey of future opportunities in foreign markets, rightly stressed the importance of vigorous market research and selling effort for British...

SIR,—What is there in the title of Professor which seems in some quarters so precious and in others to border on the ridiculous? Touching on the latter, one remembers mountebank...

Poet and Patriot W. B. Yeats (1865-1939). By Joseph Hone. (Macmillan. 255.) THE art of biography had sunk very low since the last war. On the one hand there was the novelistic...

Modern Warfare : Its Character and Its Problems. By Gene W. Sikorski. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) • The Great Offensive : The Strategy of Coalition Warfare. Max Werner. (Gollancz. 7s....

The Indian Pageant. By F. Yeats-Brown. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 8s. 6d.) India. By T. A. Raman. The World of Today. (Oxford University Press. 3s. 6d.) India's Fateful Hour. By...

Spring Onions. By Duncan McGuffie. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) The Land and Life. By Montague Fordham. (Routledge. r,s.) Perspectives for Countrymen. By H. E. Poole. (Allen and Unwin. 2s.)...

THIS book is the first to be issued of a series of studies prepared by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. The greater part hasobeen written by Professor...

The winner of Crossword No. 204 is F. C. GEARY, 5 ugby. Barby Road,

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, -March znd. Envelopes...

By CUSTOS EVEN the £40,000,000 pay-out on requisitioned South Africa securities has scarcely brought a ripple on the placid surface of th stock markets. Some of this money may...

is supply. Easily one of the best examples of the supply is Mrs Street's amusing, wise and well-planned book. It is at. its bet when she is describing family life, the role of...

Destination Chungking. By Han Suyin. (Cape. 12S. 6d.) IN this moving tale from Free China the. names and elaboration are fictitious, the facts autobiographical. Han Suyin and...