N spite of the intensity of the fighting on the Russian front Libya remains the centre of interest and concern for every British tudent of the conflict. Elsewhere, apart from...

The problem of help for China is one of the major issues of the War. Japan, whose resources seem to be of almost infinite elasticity, 13, according to Chinese reports, massing...

It is often said that the last war brought education forward in this country, whereas the present war has set it back. Both proposi- tions are true, and the second seems likely...

The Church Assembly has been dealing this week with a number of Measures touching the status and conduct of the Anglican clergy. Those which received general approval on Tuesday...

The decision of the United States Government to stop work on five new monster battleships and concentrate on aircraft carriers instead corresponds to the clear lessons of the...

Both Sir Stafford Cripps' past and his possible future invest any contribution he makes to the discussion of social and industrial con- ditions in this country with considerable...

When the Government set out to expand home wheat-growing in 1939 it may be taken that the most profitable wheatland in the country was already under the plough. And as the...

Mr. Butler was not very lavish of promises, and even about raising the school age from 14 to 15 he could merely say that it should be done " when we get the chance." Meantime,...

WELVE months ago next Monday Hitler, being bound by a I treaty of nearly two years' standing to refrain from any act of force or aggression against Russia, invaded Russia...

something to relieve the perplexity which the failure to follow up the two thousand-machine raids last month had caused. The sensation they created throughout the world, with...

most hopeful innovations of this war, and the report which has just been issued on its first eight or nine months' working shows that the initial hopes were not misplaced. The...

I HAVE more than once emphasised here the disastrous failure of the various half-hearted attempts to interpret this country to Russia. Never was the necessity greater than on...

sym- pathetic, but rather perplexed. What he said in the House of Lords on Tuesday, if The Times report can be trusted, was that "the highest category of surtax-payers were...

interesting, point o view on the question of family allowances has just been put befo me. I commit myself to no final judgement on it, but it obviously deserves consideration....

the suggestion that a Chinese envoy to the Vatican should be appointed. Japan herself recently despatched such an envoy, for transparently political reasons. The number of Japan...

By STRATEGICUS T HE design in the Middle East grows in dearness as the fighting becomes more intense. The objective has long been evident, and if the plan by which it is hoped...

By OSCAR R. IIOBSON T HE present " white-headed boy " of many economic reformers is the Public Corporation, which is being hailed as the ideal compromise between socialism and...

By SIR BERNARD PARES 1 1 HE publication of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty was sure to be greeted with intense satisfaction. This is what has been eagerly asked for at innumerable...

By EVELYN SIMPSON Y TRULLY christened himself. His first letter to me began " Dear Miss E. Simpson," and ended " Your Trully Jim Smith," and 'My Trully he has remained ever...

By PROFESSOR E. ALLISON PEERS T HE recent entry of Mexico into the War focuses attention once again on the twenty Latin-American republics, all of them alive to the dangers of...

DALLAS is dead. It was the tenth of May When Dallas died, It was a week ago today, And what is left? Sylvia. Sylvia cried "God, what is left?" And " Sylvia," the wind...

that paper restrictions permit are now being printed each week. Readers who experience difficulty in obtaining a copy of the paper regularly are invited to forward their names...

By HAROLD NICOLSON L AST week's Spectator contained an interesting and opportune letter on the subject of the party system. The argument, if I understood it aright, was that...

It is argued, finally, that the purpose of any electoral system to secure that the country is represented in Parliament by " m of high intelligence, integrity and ability to...

illness. I consider them symptoms of excellent democratic heal It is right that in any grave national crisis, such as war or recon struction, a National Government should be...

The writer of the letter in question, to my mind, has weakened the force of its argument by using words and phrases the meanings of which are suggestive rather than precise. Any...

WILL it cease and the snow— Gathering on the muzzles of guns— Lie undisturbed While the lights of Europe leap and glow And the cracking of ice as the pent-up waters flow Bear...

" The Spoilers." At the Leicester Square.—" Flying Fortress " At Warner's and the Empire.—" The Defeat of the Germans Near Moscow." At the Astoria, Charing Cross Road...

4 , Twelfth Night." At the Arts Theatre. THAT the new theatrical venture at the Arts Theatre is well worth the fullest support of anyone interested in a lively contemporary...

Sia,—That renowned scientist Thomas Henry Huxley used to deligh in telling the story of a loud-voiced corporal who during a certain w found himself stumbling on a party of the...

SIR,—Professor Norman Bentwich in your issue of June 5th says: "A famous painting of Rembrandt, The School of Anatomy,' shows a group of solemn Dutch doctors gathered round a...

on the Centenary of Arnold's death? I must, however, challenge Mr. Whitehorn's assertion that such activities as music, dramatic, debating and literary societies, magazines and...

the Inscrutable? said Dean Swift. A finite mind can never grasp that which is Julian In esoteric matters the human intellect can pursue a line of enquiry u to a point at which...

from Rugby School and especially endorse his emphasis on the primary importance of the cultivation of the intellect in the education of youth. The march of time shows the...

ARNOLD AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS StR,—T he Spectator has always been a popular paper at Rugby School. The names of the Headmaster and Mr. P. F. Wiener have drawn an even wider...

SIR,—The correspondence under the above heading shows signs of flood. ing a much wider area than you envisaged when you allowed it to begin. But—if space allows—may I, in case...

you quote under this heading in the leading article of air issue of June trzth, the most essential appears to be omitted, in the be of Poland, namely the restitution of lands,...

Sta,—There is one paragraph in your admirable article on "Post-War Germany " to which I think exception must be taken. You say, at the !mom of page 547: " It has been pointed...

—Mr. A. R. Young accuses the Ministry of Food of having made a bargain with the Performing Right Society in regard to fees for the ermance of copyright music by wireless...

Snt,—Mr. Seeley says that the statements of myself and Sir William Beach Thomas are not supported by facts. I am afraid his are equally unsupported. He says that now...

TWICE within four days my bees have gone through a rather rare manoeuvre. The stock in q uestion is a very stron g one, g rowin g rather too numerous for the hive, and not...

several times a early experiment in g rowin g En g lish tobacco. It was extremely succe s ful, at any rate so far as the plants and the curin g of the leaves we concerned. The...

Government would have been better advised to have adhered in principle to the Beverid g e Scheme, and for the very reason set forth by Sir John Percival in his letter in The...

any of your readers who are also writers what has happened to the verb " be g in." No modern author now uses it I notice. The followin g q uotations will illustrate my point:...

poem in defence of the Mar q uis de Sade in comparison with Heydrich, it may be remem- bered that the Mar q uis, who was in prison at the time that the French Revolution broke...

weasels, shou t not be allowed to multiply appeared recently in The Field, and it evok the comment that stoats and weasels killed rats. Now it is part of m creed that both...

the orchard is the shriven' and droppin g of already formed fruit. It is often Nature's proper meth of reducin g excess ; but it may be due to other causes, and the preventive...

The Death of the Moth. By Virginia Woolf. (Hogarth Press. 9s.) THESE essays are mainly about literary subjects and what one though of The Common Reader one will, on the whole,...

Revolution by Order The Government of Vichy. By Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Tissier. (Harrap. 15s.) The Government of Vichy. By Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Tissier. (Harrap. 15s.)...

Remembrance. By H. J. Massingham. (Batsford. Jos. 6d.) MR. MASSINGHAM defines his autobiography as " a topographical record of the country of my own mind from early years to the...

Writers in Freedom. Edited by Hermon Ould. (Hutchinson. 8s. WHAT new thing is presaged by this book? The sub-tide is " Symposium based on the XVII International P.E.N. Club...

SIR WILLIAM DAMPIER has added to his well-known book a short section on the science of the decade 5930-40. This would, in itself, make this new edition worth acquiring. It is...

Scene in Passing. By Robert Neumann. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) Scene in Passing is no straightforward chronological résumé of past events, but a fable placed vaguely...

(A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct olution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. ;nr elopes should be...

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By CUSTOS NEWS from the war fronts has scarcely been of the kind encourage the optimists in the stock markets, and nobody can surprised at the modest relapse in quotations....

that if she were a man, she would be Richard Burton, " but being only a woman, I would be Richard Burton's wife," and the book lives up to its title, for it does succeed in...

The Annual Register. Edited by Dr. M. Epstein. (Longmans. 42s.) THIS indispensable volume is a little slimmer than in the previous year, though there is no reduction in the...

Press. 2s, 6d.) Moscow Under Fire is yet another eye-witness account by o 1 Special Correspondent, and does not break away from " The Field. The two publications of the Pilot...

ARGENTINE ESTATES OF BOVRIL LIMITED SIDING at the thirty-fourth annual general meeting of Argentine Estates Bovril, Ltd., he d in London on June 16th, the Lord Luke, K.B.E....