the enslaved nations of Europe is significant. The momentary pause after the reduction of Sicily wakens great expectations, particularly in view of the decisions that may be...

Air Marshal Coningham did not mince his words when he spoke to correspondents at his advanced headquarters in Sicily last Sunday. He spoke of the Luftwaffe as a " beaten force,"...

The simple announcement by the Italian Government last Satur- day evening that it had declared Rome an " open city " obviously imposed no obligation whatever upon the Allies.....

The Times last Wednesday gave some account of a new fortnightly review devoted to international affairs—The War and the Working Class—which made its first appearance in Moscow...

War-time necessity has compelled administrators to accelerate the development of the West African colonies, and to bring the externals of civilisation with amazing rapidity into...

Great Britain is alone among the countries of the Empire in enjoying a cessation of party politics under the stress of war. Australia, like the other Dominions—and, it should be...

Officers of the Trades Union Congress and of the Union Of Post Office Workers are. now considering means of getting round the consequences of the false step taken in seeking...

T HE Quebec Conference opens with spirits high. Favouring fortune has enabled its first full session to synchronise with the final completion of the Sicilian campaign. That...

O NE of the international visits which had been confidently announced as about to take place, and which has not taken place, is that of Dr. Benes to Moscow. After the...

By STRATEGICUS The German version can, in fact, be disregarded, apart from one point. It is stated that the evacuation had been in progress for a fortnight ; and this is...

By SIR FRED CLARKE * What really is somewhat alarming in the present situation is the tendency to assume that the administrative reform covers the whole problem, that a " good...

By W. M. PARKER e y is e e it e y d g it LI it 5 tt :r ie p a A CENTURY ago the educational world, especially that part of it devoted to the classics, was...

By JULIAN HUXLEY W ALKING on Hampstead Heath, freshly back from a holiday, I was greeted with the songs of willow-warbler and tree-creeper, the incisive notes of the spotted...

By RICHARD RUMBOLD H AVING passed my early youth amidst the frustrations of the pre-war years and my late youth in the Army and subse- qu...ntly the R.A.F., I may be able to...

glow Is almost tangible Like a fifth element ; The valky seems to fill With visible air ; I stand On the floor of a clear pool. Black and malevolent. I watch the bombers climb...

EVEN in exile there are living moments. Robinson Crusoe looked from his stockade Past all the poor things that he had made (His sure prosaic pride) in sudden boredom With...

By HAROLD NICOLSON A UGUST, the etteod-monath of our ancestors, is the month of weeds: " This is the month of weeds. Kex, charlock, thistle, Among the shorn bristle Of stubble...

the. Leicester Square.—“ Thursday's Child." Generally released. THE CINEMA " Bataan." At the Empire. -- 46 The Flemish Farm." At the. Leicester Square.—“ Thursday's Child."...

LYING here, how can I speak Of the stillness of this place? Such utterance would disturb the quiet scene Created only by the Maker's hand. Man is a stranger here! G. A....

MOZART'S Horn Concerto No. 4 in E Flat—four parts—played by Dennis Brain, with the Hall6 Orchestra (Col. DX' iz3-4), is worth having for the beautiful stow movement. The horn...

THE THEATRE I CANNOT join in the current fashionable depreciation of Shaw as a dramatist. It is natural that some good critics should be so shocked at his almost inhuman common...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—Anyone with even a superficial knowledge of Yugoslavia and of the psychology of its peoples must have been amazed at the make-up of the new...

Sig,—Sir Eric Macfadyen begins his excellent article in last week's Spectator by asking " Do people want to live on top of one another? " Another of his most pertinent questions...

Sm,—Neither the Dean of Wells nor the Rev. P. Gardner-Smith will expect me to attempt a reconciliation between their viewpoint and mine. The divergence is fundamental. They, as...

Six,—Professor Pigou's article on " The Industrial Choice " comes as a timely reminder that there are still economists who consider the problem of mass unemployment as...

SIP, —Mr. Angus Watson's letter is excellent as summarising the Church's teaching on sex. None of us would disagree with his admirable exposi- tion of the Christian attitude in...

Sta,—In your latest issue, Mr. Harold Nicolson returns to the subject of the punishment of war criminals. He has clearly a tender conscience on this subject and would rath'tr...

Snt,—Mr. Mammatt, in criticising my article " The Pub and the Club," complains that I make Mr. Pickwick " repeat the old teetotal canard that the trade's only business is to...

$m,—In your remarks on the Fire Guard Orders last week you state: " What a well-organised service courd do against raids on the R.A.F. scale is problematic." . I submit that in...

Is this a sporting year? And there seem to be seasons when plants and various animals " sport " or develop oddities of form and colour. I ask because queries in quantity reach...

SIR,—As one not yet of age, may I voice a strong protest against those who are calling me and my generation " submerged" ? The cry has risen mainly from the ranks of the older...

Russian History Russia Through the Centuries. By M. Philips Price, M.P. (George Allen and Unwin. 55.) THE fault with the majority of books written about Russia in recent...

The Traveller's Journey is Done. By bilys Powell. (Hodder and StoUghton. gs. 6d.) I DOUBT if the in memoriam biography can ever rank either as a work of art or a mode of...

Balcony. Empire. By Reynolds and Eleanor Packard. (Chatto and Windus. iss.) IN certain respects Balcony Empire makes a good companion volume to Mr. Shirer's Berlin Diary, and...

Graves. (Hutchinson. los. 6d.) MR. CHARLES GRAvEs's history of the Home Guard must be rated as a first-class performance. . He gives his readers the facts and he has presented...

The Nazi Octopus in South America. Hugo Fernandez Artucio. (Robert Hale. zzs. bd.) DR. Airman is a professor and a philosopher. But not for him the cloistered virtue of an ivory...

Victorian classics gives the double pleasure of visiting two strange countries rather than one. It would be depressing, for instance, to watch a new Rise of the Dutch Republic...

IF Mr. Graves and Mr. Hodge had taken Disraeli's advice never to explain, then to call their book stimulating, instructive, even inspiring, would not be to raise the suspicion...

The Returning Heart. By Dorothy Charques. (Hamish Hamilton. - 6 d-) Green 9s Hands. By Barbara Whitton. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) Mean Sensual Man. By Stephen McKenna....

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spokesmen of the Roosevelt administration. His past career has - not saved him from charges of imperialism, his openly professed and practised democratic principles have not...

7s. 6d.) OUR English word Youth is being written with a larger and larger Y. The present book belongs to the considerable literature which has grown up round this new subject of...

By CUSTOS INVESTORS who have been disappointed at the market's response to the fall of Sicily would do well to remember that the Stock Exchange began to capitalise this event...