atmosphere prevailing in Europe today the reports of a Nazi seizure of Trade Union offices at Danzig should -have been given what is obviously an exaggerated importance. Danzig...

H ERR HITLER'S speech clearly ends the deadlock at Geneva, temporarily at any rate, for the constructive passages in the speech are well -in line with the provisions - of the...

the Fascist ileimwehr and the passive support of the Socialists, is making a spirited resistance to the formidable Nazi movement within its own borders, and the decision to...

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Paraguay has declared war on Bolivia, and it is stated that this is the first formal declaration of the kind anywhere in the world since the Peace Conference. ' There is some...

new threat to the principle of democracy arising from the triumph of Hitlerism in Germany, Miss Eleanor Rathbone, M.P., advances in a letter to the Manchester Guardian sonic...

House and the country of some vocal support for the Government's India policy are to be welcomed. It is a serious misfortune that while Mr. Churchill and others are embarking on...

by the principal European Powers and the United States does not go very far, but it is definitely satisfactory so far as it does go. There always some danger_ that before a...

Crawford in the Ilford County Court in which an air-pilot sued an aeroplane proprietor who had dismissed him for refusing to carry out an order to make a return flight carrying...

motor industry— which cannot be said to be suffering gravely from the general depression. More private cars were registered in March than in any single month hitherto, the total...

Archbishops, supported by the leaders of the Free Churches, should convince all who accept the name of Christian of the duty of carrying their principles into practice in the...

proposals for reform of the Metropolitan Police force is the door for entry into the new Police College from outside. There has been a good deal of rather vague talk about the...

that the Government takes too much of the time of the House, the Government with equal regularity replies that private members make little use of such time as is allotted to...

was broken last Thursday by strong Opposition protests against the admission to this country of Herr Rosenberg—Herr Hitler's envoy. Both Mr. Lansbury and Mr. Maxton contended...

Lords, where on the same day (Thursday) Lord Cecil made a speech plainly stating that, if the Disarmament Con- ference broke down, Germany alone would be responsible. This...

N O one in the world could have obliterated President Roosevelt except Reichskanzler Hitler. And no one, it may safely be asserted, was - ever readier to be so obliterated than...

T HERE is at least one pOint on which all. critics of Lord Trenchard's Police Report will agree—that it was admirably up to date. The same cannot be said o f other official...

of ruin among the Downs between Brighton and Newhaven— that once most beautiful part of the Downland dear to the „heart of W. H. Hudson, Kipling and Belloc,- now already spoilt...

in London. The fact may or may not be of political significance. The reason for the visit is that the Irish President will be on his way to Rome. The potential importance of it...

the Reich. stag building was set on fire and an alleged Dutch Communist named Van der Lubbe arrested as the incendiary. So certain was this person's guilt that Herr Hitler...

has played in public life without Lady Cynthia. Wealth, wilfulness, provocativeness, brilliance, were combined in both of them, and they appeared to the public eye as two parts...

the Government thinks its Russian embargo policy is achieving. When the embargo was first discussed its justification was the claim that " the lives of Englishmen in Russia were...

(who will make a very interesting, and I am inclined to think, a pretty independent, M.P. if he is elected for Hitchin, as no doubt he will be) is putting up about th e Suez...

I T is a sombre reflection that thirteen years after the foundation of the League of Nations men of quite sober mind in many countries are talking seriously of the possibility...

BY DENNIS ROBERTSON. I do not think any economist has denied that mechani- cal improvements might on the balance be " labour- robbing " in the sense that their effect, even...

By ME BISHOP OF PLYMOUTH. TT is difficult to reconcile the record sale of Bibles 1 during 1932 reported by the British and Foreign Bible Society with the generally accepted...

BY PADRAIC COLU.M. T HE exoticism of Central America served to show how uniform after all are the folk-cultures of Europe. In the displays of singing and dancing. that the...

The Dead NOT till my Spirit's naked and ashamed, And free of mortal flesh, would I desire To sit in close communion with the dead. I would not hear a friend exclaim in ire- "...

ONLY the harebells and the turf are near; The bumble booms, beseeching all around- - Hark the eternal, hot, insistent sound— Even the flints to rouse themselves and hear. But...

d'auj ourd'hui fD'ux CORRESPONDANT FRANcAIS.] P RESQUE toutes les gloires d'avant-guerre ont dis- paru ; sauf le philosophe Bergson, tons ceux qui stir% ivent, eomme M....

"THE SPECTATOR," MAY 18TH, 1833. A Tome Snow.—Had we received Mr. Gitoord's card of invitation to inspect his Tulip-bads at any other time than the present. ton chances to one...

A Letter From Dublin - Ireland in Revolution [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Ireland is in revolution. Never was the word more precise. You could not walk through a...

" An auto-da-fe of two thousand Marxist and pacifist books was carried out last evening at Hamburg."— Daily Telegraph. [The brilliant Dutch cartoonist who did so notable a...

GARDENS FOR THE MILLION. A new effort in gardening for the million—especially for the two million six hundred thousand of unemployed—is being made ; and has, in my view,...

The Kent and Sussex coasts are especially pilloried (by the Scottish S.P.C.A.) as areas of destruction for sea birds, including razor bills, puffms, guillemots and several...

duced a marvellous sum of food during the War. They have been limited chiefly by lack of leisure. The country suffers today from excess of leisure. The use of leisure is and...

; which will not be made good, which must be written off ; but he would be a pessimist indeed who could visit Holbeach or Sutton Bridge and deny the quality of the colonies of...

STUPID Dens The latest dog show has re-aroused a question that is more and more seriously disturbing dog-lovers. Th e Fancy," that strange and esoteric group who decree the...

in the least ; but my own experience of some other sporting dogs, especially spaniels and red setters, certainly holds up the complaint, very forcibly put by an artist...

Society of Friends is as wide as unemployment itself ; and that, alas, is wide indeed. Today about 100,000 unemployed men have garden allotments large , enough to occupy a good...

On the whole, the show Labrador is a good all-round dog, and the intelligence of some of the Toy dogs, notably the " Peke," is astonishingly acute. The worst happens among dogs...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I feel sure the majority of your readers will have appreciated the insertion of Mr. P. A. Sloan's letter in your last issue,...

[ecrrespondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our News of the Week" paragraphs.—Ed. THE...

needs to make out a much stronger ease than he has done if he aims at convincing others that he is handling it impartially, and not as a partisan of Russia. Presumably he is a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am aware that Lord Tavistock's organization eon- cerns itself with the " right use of credit," but I am not so blind as he seems to be...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—" Janus" is, I am afraid, right in thinking my statement defective in form, though I think it is not inaccurate in sub- stance. It is...

intrude on your space but would like to ask Mr. W. F. Pelton, what is his authority for the statement that the Socialists are denouncing their unfortunate fellow- countrymen as...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am writing to inform you that I have given notice that I intend to ask the Postmaster-General whether he will consider the possibility...

- [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sut,—In your article last week, " Whose God is the State," you say of Germany : " the new religion is Germanolatry. Even the Christian...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—An important amendment to the French " Code de la Route " will come into force on July 1st, 1933. From that date all cyclists (including foreign visitors) must...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am glad to find attention drawn in your columns this week to the subject of village water supplies. Con- sidering what impure water may...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,. —One aspect of the controversy in England as affects the treatment of the Jews in Germany seems ever to elude those who write upon it...

Sue,—Your contributor clearly shows that the exposure of a spurious patriotism, as exemplified in Germany today, may serve to point a lesson to those in other lands, who are apt...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Stn,—May I be allowed to point out that your attribution of the deadlock in Geneva to Germany strikes a neutral observer as such a strange...

By E. M. FORSTER. I Alw a member of the Royal Horticultural Society because of its gardens at Wisley, because of its occasional gifts of seedlings, because of its fortnightly...

The New Background of Science. By Sir James Jeans. (Cam- bridge University Press. 7s. 6d.) Tin.; difficulty in dealing with Relativity lies in this—that whereas the problem is a...

IN Mr. Dangerfield's introductory matter is this passage : " When Clive defeated Surai-ed-Dowlah at the Battle of Plassey, the Company ceased to be a trading concern . . . from...

THOSE who knew the inner life of the Salvation Army under the Booth dynasty were aware of a peculiar sort of tension in its atmosphere. Where you have an immense person a l...

Pugin. A Mediaeval Victorian. By Michael Trappes-Lo,r.:-.x. (Sheed and Ward. 15s.) Pugin. A Mediaeval Victorian. By Michael Trappes-Lo,r.:-.x. (Sheed and Ward. 15s.) TWENTY...

Three French Dramatists : Racine, Marivaux, Musset. By Arthur TilleY, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. 6d.) 12s. 6d.) CRITICS may be divided roughly into two classes :...

Charles Lamb and his Contemporaries. By Edmund Blundon. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d.) Ma. BLUNDEN tells us that he was already cogitating a book on Lamb, " with the kind...

Poems. By Stephen Spender. (Faber and Faber. 5s.) IF one is to judge Mr. Spender's work by his following, the very diversity of these admirers is almost a proof of his...

cricket is Fun," says Mr. B en Travers in his preface to Mr. Robertson-Glasgow's invigorating little book ; and the words are words of good omen in an hour when a sense of...

notify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY OH MONDAY of EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

the Star-Born. By Henry Williamson. (Faber and Faber. 15s.) IT has happened from time to time that I have been reproached for a too general enthusiasm. About this I would only...

(Faber and Faber. G s .) For many years Mr. Read has been accumulating a reputation as a critic of literature and the fine arts. His technique has been austere, intellectually...

By GRAHAM GREENE UNDOUBTEDLY an aesthetic pleasure can be gained from reading Dr. Cronin, the pleasure of observing a certain kind of novelist flowering with a superb...

The first detailed account of the finds on a prehistoric site near Has el Ain in Northern Mesopotamia is given in Baron Max von Oppenheim's Tell Halaf : a New" Culture in Oldest...

THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL DE RUYTER By Professor P. Blok . Holland in the seventeenth _century was prolific in great men. Among her sailors none is more attractive or im- pressive...

The DUgdale Society, with the Master Of the Rolls as Presi- dent, is doing invaluable work in printing Warwickshire records. It has already published five _ volumes of the...

The Supreme Court of the United States, as the interpreter of the Constitution of 1787, has often saved the Republic. The true founder of the Court was Chief Justice Marshall,...

In this full and liberally documented volume (Brutes and Beasts, Noel Douglas, 12S. 6d.), 'Mr. Swain follows up the account, which he presented in The - Pleasures of the Torture...

It is always a delicate matter for an Englishman to speak to an American audience on the League of Nations, but Sir Frederick Whyte, whose The Unfinished Task (Houghton,...

A. R. Marriott Sir John Marriott has written .a pleasant and interesting book on Oxford : its Place in National History (Clarendon Press, 6s.). He begins with the Saxon...

Travel in Ireland IT is advisable, in the first place, to take a car. The Great Southern Railway, possibly the most libelled institution in Ireland, whose imposing network of...

axiom that, within reasonable limits, the ownership and use of every car should he economical instead of extravagant. Leaving out all question of racing or competition work, but...

' The speeches of chairmen at the annual meetings of our big industrial concerns are read nowadays with unusual care with a view to gleaning the impressions of our leading...

UNSETTLED MARKETS. THE Stock Exchange has passed through a most unsettled wyek. At um time gilt-edged securities were dull mainly for the reason that attention was diverted to...

Restoring Confidence AT first sight at all events the outlook for the World Economic Conference called for June 12th is not an encouraging one. I say " at first sight " because...

It was announced last April that the De Beers Company was changing the date of its accounts to December 31st, and that explains why the report and accounts now presented merely...

I referred a fortnight ago to the excellent character of the report of the Eagle Star and British Dominions Insurance Company, and the favourable impression created by the...

The report recently published of the Guardian Assurance Company for 1932 was an excellent one, and at the recent annual meeting the Chairman, Colonel Hanbury, confirmed what was...

Concerning the general trade outlook. Sir Eric Geddes filar be said to have displayed caution with an undercurrent of hopefulness, and some amusement has been occasioned by hi s...

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(Continued from page 738.) OIL DIVIDENDS. During the past week three of the leading Oil companies, namely, the Royal Dutch, the Shell and the Burmah, declared their dividends,...

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