L ATE on Wednesday the news reached this country that Turkey has signed a "Treaty of Friendship" with Germany. Though it is agreed that its terms do not affect Turkey's com-...

A fact which we ought not to allow ourselves or our friends to forget is that this country, which two years ago had no more than the skeleton of an Army, is now con- ducting...

The report of the American Consul at Pernambuco that the American merchantman ' Robin Moor,' in waters far from the belligerent zone, was sunk by a German U-boat, the latter's...

Our forces engaged on the Syrian front against the army of Vichy France are meeting with stiff resistance—stiffer indeed than had been expected. On the west Sidon has been taken...

Vichy's increased subservience to Germany is vividly shown by the enactment of a new Anti-Semitic law for Unoccupied France. Partly from Axis pressure, and partly because some...

Before long the House of Commons, much exercised about the activities of the Ministry of Information, will have the opportunity of a debate on the subject. British propaganda...

Mr. Menzies, in his broadcast on Tuesday, put before Australians the most comprehensive view of their part in the war that has yet been formulated. Everything beyond a frugal...

The verdict concerning the ' Robin Moor ' preceded but is not necessarily connected with two measures directed against Germany by order of President Roosevelt. The decision at...

" Secret weapons," one would have thought, are best not talked about till the war is over. It is difficult to explain, there- fore, the sudden burst of publicity accorded to "...

Just a little over a year ago, King Leopold III surrendered with the Belgian army. That was at midnight of May 27th, and on the morning of May 28th the French Prime Minister, M....

The Ministry of Food has been " looking again " into its scheme for controlling the sale of eggs ; and has been induced to modify the restrictions on small poultry keepers. The...

Many trade unions have been holding their annual con- ferences recently and the occasions have been chosen for frank speaking on questions of wages and profits and kindred sub-...

Miss Eleanor Rathbone, with a representative deputation of M.P.s, paid a call this week on the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer to ask him what his attitude was to the motion...

On Tuesday the annual conference of the Amalgamated Engineering Union passed an instruction to their executive to inform the Government that the Home Office's fire-watching...

The increase of deliquency among children and young persons up to the age of seventeen in the early period of the war was one of the disturbing consequences of the unsettle-...

Postage on this issue : Inland lid., Foreign and Imperial id., Canada Id.

T HE recent concentration on the Soviet frontier of a hundred German divisions, to which have been added armoured divisions and powerful air squadrons, has been the subject of...

might realise. Here, in language which you might not normally associate with a Victorian era is Carlyle's comment on the Foreign Office in Latter Day Pamphlets, published in...

just read from a Jew who managed recently to leave Germany. He " had the impression that frequently Jews were welcomed by the workers because, in talking to Jews, there was no...

of the Diplomatic Service. Apparently the Commercial Diplomatic, whose members are appointed by the Department of Overseas Trade, is still excluded from the scope of these...

is also Sir Ronald Campbell, and one is therefore provided with endless material for farce or drama. Will the one be arrested by suspicious police—and the police in so...

of men like Baldwin and Chamberlain, Simon and Hoare, that I now hasten to pay my tribute to the author of the slogan which, at the time of its invention, filled me with...

James's Palace meeting of the Allied representatives. " This circle of ghosts " holding their " death dance on the ruins of a shat- tered world," was the way in which the German...

British Minister in Belgrade, has arrived in Lisbon. I refer to him without a prefix not because I know him very well (for, alas, I don't) but because I do not know whether to...

I CANNOT share the widespread satisfaction over the reports of Russo-German friction. They can generally be traced back to the Germans themselves, and therefore the more we...

of events in each other's countries that I write very diffi- dently about the state of mind in Germany. Reports from many sources agree, however, about the astonishing lack of...

By STFtATEG ICUS I N a few days time it will be a year since the British Empire found herself alone in the struggle against the might of Germany and Italy. The position at that...

By IRENE WARD, M.P. A T the present time it is essential to the achievement of vic- tory and the planning of the future to be both realist and ruthless. The prestige of the...

By KENNETH LINDSAY, M.P. T WENTY-ONE Members of Parliament, including four Ministers and two Deputy-Commissioners, took part in the two days' debate on Civil Defence. Nine...

By ERWIN D. CANHAM By Air Mail I T would appear that President Roosevelt and the actual majority of United States citizens who believe this nation must aid Britain short of...

good rule for June. " Plant everything, transplant everything, hoe everything" another. Transplanted onions will grow large ; but small onions have the virtues ; they can be...

many times in the course of a day? Only the very patient observer, watching from dawn to dusk, could, I suppose, give an approximately reliable answer. But even a very casual...

" Rise Above It." At the Comedy. " Actresses Will Happen." By Walter Ellis. At the Apollo. AT last we have a revue without those mysterious weak spots (how is it that they...

cabbages. There is no means of checking, acquiring or stopping the back- yard supply. Thus no scheme of egg-rationing, except one in which there are more egg-inspectors than...

Cheers for Miss Bishop." At the Regal.—" That Uncertain Feeling." At the Gaumont. THERE are times in the cinema when it seems as if the highest American traditions all derive...

SIR,—At all times there is a certain section of the public that gains an odd satisfaction from getting the better of regulations imposed for the common benefit. But now this "...

SIR,—Mr. Wiener's letter about school-textbooks in German is a reflexion on the limpness of the " modern language" world in this country. Examining bodies perhaps keep...

SIR, —The article under the above title expresses a point of view which one can quite understand and appreciate. Yet there is another alongside it. Many men who felt their...

WOMEN ON THE LAND SIR, —In all references to women's work in the country, I have seen no mention of anything but manual tasks, usually of the heaviest kinds. It is the common...

" on poetry. I am not any kind of expert, but I question whether anyone can be an expert on such a thing as poetry. Certainly it is possible to be a mine of information on the...

SIR, —Are we to infer from F. W. Inwood's astonishing letter that no recreation should be allowed in war-time, or is it only Staff Officers who must be forced to take a...

Au. night the planes have droned and throbbed overhead Faint droning, loud urgent throbbing, dying away, Again and again like recurrent phases of fever. Sometimes the...

Sm,—The review of Clarence K. Streit's book Union With Britain Now, in your issue of June 6th, prompts the remark that, union being a means and not an end, one ought, before...

Snt,—How much shipping-spate is being taken up bringing material into the country from which paper is manufactured to be used for Press and other advertising, having as its...

Sm,—Mr. Crick's letter in your last issue raises an interesting point. There is no real contradiction between, say, " The sacredness of the family," and the alleged " holiness "...

Snt,—May I write in support of Dr. Ostoja's letter which you pub- lished on June 13th? As a serving Army officer, I was in 1921 and 5922 stationed .in Upper Silesia with my...

SIR, —Miss Dorian Williams has put a question which I have been asking for years, and I write again in the hope that some practitioner in the stil nuovo will answer it. Until...

Air Strategy. By Captain Norman Macmillan. (Hutchinson. es. 6d.) Tins small book gives a remarkable amount of information and makes the case for the correct use of air-power. It...

MR. GwYNN has done a useful service in exhibiting in its historical setting the doctrinal and diplomatic position of the modern Papacy in the sphere of international ethics and...

The Turn of the Screw My Sister and I, The Diary of a Dutch Boy Refugee. By Dirk van der Heide. (Faber. 3s. 6d.) WE are all of us - emigrants from a country we can remember...

Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century. By R. Weiss. (Basil Blackwell. 129. 6d.) THE first flowering of the Renaissance in England with the generation of Colet,...

Diplomacy and God. By George Glasgow. (Longman's. 7s. 6d.) MR. GLASGOW has at any rate found an interesting title, for we are not accustomed to see in diplomacy a field of...

In Napoleonic Days. Extracts from the Private Diary of Augusta, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Queen Victoria's Maternal Grandmother, 1806-1821, Selected and translated by...

Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs :—Canada. By Graham Spry North America and the War. By Reginald G. Trotter ; Trends in Canadian Nationhood. By Chester Martin • Canada and...

A Friend of France. By Ian E. Black. (Cape. los. 6d.) WHY this book—the autobiography of a cultured Englishman (or should I say Briton?) of apparently some 4o years of age—...

IN an essay on Ronald Firbank E. M. Forster wrote " . II critics had not their living to get they would seldom handle any literary fantasy. It makes them look so foolish." How...

Translations from Leopardi. By R. C. Trevelyan. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. 6d.) To-many like myself whose knowledge of German is small, Rilke first became accessible...

The Eastern Marshlands of Europe. By H. G. Wanklyn. (Philip and Son. 125. 6d.) Tits book is the result, the author tells us, of nine years' spare- time study—" the outcome of...

By " CUSTOS " WHATEVER the main motive force may be—the news from Syria, President Roosevelt's freezing order, or just weight of money— stock markets are decidedly good. In...

MRS. MILLIN'S book is described as " the autobiography of a person who can't sleep." The theme of her insomnia is apparently expected to provide the framework of the book. It is...

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