Francisco Conference (which opens on Wednesday) both Houses of Parliament should devote full-dress debates to the proposals for the security organisation NEWS OF THE WEEK...

As long as there was any conceivable loophole of doubt many persons in this country dared to hope that there was at least exaggera- tion about the hideousness and the scale of...

in Mr. Bevin's recent speech at Leeds which was at first omitted in most of the newspaper reports. In this Mr. Bevin turned from controversial domestic issues to questions of...

Marshal Tito, in an interview with a correspondent of the Soviet Red Star, nas demanded that Trieste and the Istrian peninsula should be ceded to Yugoslavia at the peace...

Calling attention to the need that reconstruction and development should be controlled by " civilised regard for beauty, history and amenities," a number of persons...

Two • Scottish by-elections, at Motherwell and for the Scottish Universities, have resulted in defeats of National Government candi- dates. The return of Sir John Boyd Orr is...

Since Mr. Robert Foot produced his plan for coal on behalf of the Mining Association he has been studying criticisms of it—of which there have been many—and also the report of...

F RANKLIN ROOSEVELT is the greatest casualty of the war. When he had served his generation by the will of God, he fell on sleep. But what here makes the bitterness of death, not...

G ENERAL EISENHOWER'S announcement that V-Day will not be proclaimed till all important enemy pockets on the West front have been wiped out needs a little elucidation—does...

By STRATEGICUS It may be that as this article is being written the shape of the final battles is being determined. The Russians are said to be attacking from the direction of...

By AN AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT Such a system would be absurd in a little country like England. It is a necessity in a vast continental area like the United States, where each...

By A CORRESPONDENT IN AUSTRALIA It will hardy be possible for the United Nations to deal with the problem adequately, but Australia is determined to do her share up to the...

By CAPTAIN NEVILE A. D. WALLIS By August, 1914, F. A. Pile had become an outstanding show jumper, and when the Army was mobilised he was appointed A.D.C. to the officer...

By R. A. EDWARDS I T seems to be the case that never in modem times have the thoughts of so many people turned towards Canterbury as they are doing today. To be sure, part of...

As a wise father, by his own fireside, Talks to his trusting children, so to you He spoke of homely precepts, and the few Great simple duties, and a Nation's pride. How our...

By HAROLD NICOLSON R EADERS of this page may have observed, and perhaps with irritation, that I am unduly fascinated by the sudden changes which a war of movement brings to...

EVEN the barest outline, even a critic's truncated catalogue of his choice of the late Sir Hugh Walpole's collection, would, if one were to do any justice -to it, cover a page...

AMONG the month's records are two outstanding orchestral items: Mozart's Serenade, Eine „Kleine Nachtmusik (K 525), played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Thomas...

CAMERA and microphone may record a real place and real people, but the true essence of events generally lies in the overtones of sound and image. The Nine Hundred is true in...

THE THEATRE Ma. EMLYN WILLIAMS is an accomplished playwright who has the advantage—which Synge and Yeats in their different ways had—of being not only British and a citizen of...

Snt,—In his recent Marginal Comment on Earl Lloyd George, Mr. Harold Nicolson said that " his conduct of foreign policy was not based upon that calm continuity, that strict...

journal, I have been much interested in Mr. A. C. Bossom's illuminating article in your issue of April 6th. This is a serious indictment of the super coal-fired electric station...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR, -Mr. Alfred Bosom's article on " The Wastage of Coal " which appeared in The Spectator on April 6th calls for several comments, particularly in...

Sin,—Professor Hayek's article on " The Future of Austria," published in your issue of April 6, calls for comment. It is stated that Austria could only maintain her population...

§nt,—The horrible facts found in Buchenwald Concentration Camp provoke the following suggestions: As vast a number of Germans as possible should be made witnesses now and in...

SIR,—You stand condemned out of your own mouth! Your Editorial Note to the letter under the above heading in The Spectator of Friday, April 13th (note the date!) condemns you...

Snt,—Please permit me to make the following corrections in the article entitled " The Nigerian Student " which appeared in The Spectator of February 23rd, 5945. No one who...

THE beauty of the English countryside has been surpassing. In my neighbourhood the blackthorn was a near rival even to the wild cherries ; and every fruit tree in every garden...

SIR,—The Rt. Rev. Bishop Heaslett's admirable article on the Japanese Mind is a timely warning to any sympathetic observers, in the occident, of Admiral Suzuki's condolence to...

SIR,—None could dissent from the paragraph on university M.P.s in "A Spectator's Notebook" last week. May I, however, remind " Janus," my fellow graduates and your readers in...

SIR,—Sir Francis Wylie has done good service in disposing—it is to be hoped for good and all—of the legend which has grown up round the number of scholarships under the Rhodes...

SIR, —Colonel Bonamy Dobree in an otherwise most generous review of my book, Left Hand, Right Hand, in your issue of April 13th, makes one inference against which I must...

Sut,—Your reviewer of the book Bones of Contention is correct in attributing to Schiller the words " against stupidity even the gods fight in vain," although I believe there...

Southey. By Jack Simmons. (Collins. 12s. 6c1.) . A MAN'S character may be seriously falsified in the eyes of posterity by the brilliant attacks of enemies, particularly. in the...

China's Revolution MR. GREEN does not claim that this book, despite its title, is in any sense a history of the Chinese revolution. The materials for a history are scanty and...

The School and the Church. By A. Victor Murray. (Student Christian Movement. 3s. 6d.) THIS book is a useful guide for those who wish to understand what is called the religious...

The Album. By Horace Horsnell. (Hamish Hamilton. 7s. 6d.) The Sun in the Sands. By Henry Williamson. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6.1.) MR. HORSNELL and Mr. Williamson are both...

• C. Black. 8s. 6d.) DR. WILLIAMSON calls his book " a discursive history " ; but it is no more discursive than . is necessary to cover fifteen centuries and 3 quarter of the...

Loving. By Henry Green. (The Hogarth Press. 8s. 6d.) Jenghiz Khan. By V. Yan. Translated by Lionel Erskine Britton. (Hutchinson. 9s. 6d.) Soviet Stories of the Last Decade....

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Richard Church describes himself in this altogether persuasive book of essays. Born and bred in London, his home is now in the Weald of Kent, where he cultivates his garden,...