on Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave certain pledges which show that the Cabinet is at last prepared to give adequate assistance to the depressed areas. The...

NEWS OF THE WEEK said to a throng of English workers crushed by poverty and burning' with a grievance. In much the same spirit King Edward VIII, with his unfailing grasp of a...

for the kit three days been methodically pouring death and destruction in the name of Spain on the population of the Spanish capital. The terror has been undiscrimin- ating, as...

ani Japan no doubt have some foundation, though what precise form the agreement between the two Powers takes is not known. It is not surprising that countries which in various...

the role of what President Roosevelt calls " the good neighbour," Germany certainly is not one of them. Her conduct makes her consistently impossible to live with as one can...

the importance of maintaining the non-intervention agree- ment increases. So far the agreement has worked reasonably well, though no one pretends that no supplies have been...

House of Commons on Monday was a remarkable proof of the unanimity with which all parties, except the Communists and the I.L.P., approve the main princi- ples and purpose of the...

M. Salengro's death on Wednesday. The Minister of the Interior had been completely cleared by General Gamclin's committee of enquiry of the charge that during the War he had...

John Simon was obviously at pains to key down the debate on the Public Order Bill. Throughout his speech he made no reference to Sir Oswald Mosley and used no description, more...

the Bill may be used to interfere with perfectly legitimate expressions of opinion was not - relieved in the 'debate. One sentence in particular in Sir John Simon's speech,...

in a more truculent and militant mood than I have ever seen them during the whole lifetime of the National Government. But a good part of the sting was extracted from their...

might have fared really . badly in the lobby, but it was f011owed by one of the most inadequate speeches that Mr. Brown has ever made. This brought the Labour Party, Who, up to...

brought 'itself CO release Carl von Ossietsky, the pacifist; who for over threi years has been kept in Concentration camps without trial. He could not be tried because there is...

expexi encing yet,. another extension of the powers of the National Socialist Party. In the past, the lower Nazi officials have had. the duty of supervising and reporting on the...

General of South Africa was announced on Monday, is the first holder of such an office to be drawn from the ranks of Dominion politicians. He has had a long and varied career in...

W HEN Mr. Italdwiri takes to thinking aloud the. result is always interesting and sometimes disconcerting. His speech in the defence debate last week, from the point where he...

F OR some weeks now the British Broadcasting Corporation's television service at the Alexandra Palace has been in operation. It has a radius of only 20 miles, and there are not...

I VENTURE the prediction that Mr. Churchill will be the most-talked-of politician in this country in the next fortnight. Of all public men today he knows his own mind best, and...

By H. POWYS GREENWOOD B Y the time this article appears, the King will have completed his tour of the South Wales Special Area. He will have seen a very representative...

has been to suppose that the psychological movement which they observe in the society around them is destined to go on continuously in the same direction. Thus we see that in a...

[The author of this article is a well-known German authority on international affairs, who must, for obvious reasons, remain anonymous.] defence forces a very formidable...

By PROFESSOR ERNEST BARKER B EN JONSON used, I fancy, two different methods in translating (sometimes the wise may be tempted to call it " conveying .") the sense of the...

By RALPH MORTON H E sat with elbow on table, legs crossed and foot dangling, smoking a cigarette and flicking the ash thoughtfully on to the beaten mud which was the floor. His...

By ROSE MACAULAY O WORLD ! 0 life ! 0 time ! as Shelley ejaculated. How right he was then (1820, I suppose), and how right I am now to say it again in 1936. Indeed, one feels...

Commonwealth and Foreign [To the Editor of TIM SPECTATOR] Sin, One of the very few things on which South Africans of both races, and whatever their politics, are agreed is that...

WHAT WE NEED By LORD EUSTACE PERCY, M.P. U NTIL recently social policy has been focussed on the mother and the infant, on the school-child, on the sick and on the aged—on the...

By SIR WALTER LANGDON-BROWN F OR the medical man the discussion of desiderata in medicine chiefly resolves itself into consideration of organisation. The interests of the...

By MAJOR-GEN. THE RIGHT HON. SIR FREDERICK H. SYKES, K.C.B. I N writing on the subject of the Army, I should like at the outset to emphasise the fact that defence is one and...

By SIR ARNOLD WILSON. M.P. W HAT are the aims, principles and objects of man's life in society ? Marxists will. reply,. like the wicked, in the words of the Psalmist (xvii,...

By PROFESSOR G. M. TREVELYAN, O.M. IN the matter of the Preservation of the Beauty of 1 Rural England, what we need is a State policy, the support of the Ministry, of...

By CAPTAIN V. A. CAZALET, M.P. In Russia, Germany and Italy the dictators have given their people something which takes the place of liberty— and something which apparently...

By ELIZABETH BOWEN A RT is one kind of amusement, a game on a fairly - high plane which the artist invites his public to play . The novelist and playwright offer art, or...

By PETER FLEMING W E have got, I suppose, more or less what we need in the way of newspapers; and we have got what we deserve in the way of rags. If you asked the average...

By DR. C. P. SNOW T HE first need is, absurdly enough, negative ; we need the abandonment of scientific efforts towards destruction. In this country, in Germany, France, and...

"Rembrandt." At the Leicester Square Theatre REVERENCE and a good cameraman are not enough. Mr. Alexander Korda in his latest film has chosen the most difficult of all subjects,...

The 'Theatre THE film, if you remember, gave us a pseudo - naturalistic Arden, with glades more spacious but not less spurious than those which the stage-carpenter can...

[D'un correspondant parisienj " LE parti communiste, soucieux de In defense des grandes traditions de Part francais, me charge de vous transmettre une somme de cinq cents...

The Design of Elementary Schools A RECENT event of importance not only to architects has been the announcement by the News Chronicle of an open com- petition for the design of...

the - soft 'shell . 'so tclugheriii that - 'ever tits - have Much adO to * * * * their response to the offer of the snow-bunting Christmas card (issued by the Norfolk...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents 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...

must hope that Professor_Boriedale Keith is right when he tells us, in his letter appearing in last week's Spectator, that a possibility exists of securing now a satis- factory...

THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The last thing I desire' is to fasten a charge of duplicity on the late Lord Balfour, and I should be - very sorry to enter into any controversy with his...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Mr. Toms, in your issue of November 6th, refers to the " illuminating quotations " brought forward by the " well- informed " Captain...

issue, criticises Mr. Spender's impartial review of her Life of Lord Balfour because he (Mr. Spender) finds his " credulity strained " by her account of the downfall of...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] SIR, — In the article by ,Herr Rudolf Kircher, editor Qf the Frankfurter Zeitung, there are at least three misstatements which should not pais...

Friday's Spectator Janus' said- "Ilabits and hygiene go ill together "—as true a word as ,he ever wrote. I should g - O further and say thathey, never keep company-of set...

like to suggest-that in the interestingdiscussion_ of Communism which has recently taken _place in your journal, much too little attentioabai been paid to the essential differ-...

SIR,—Mr. George Godwin's interCliting letter under this heading in your issue of November 13th refers to large areas of land rich in food-growing potentialities which are out of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—There are two points in Lord Melehett's article on the Polish Jews that call, I feel, for some comment : (1) He implies a division...

issue of November 13th, Lord Mefehett says : " It is unnecessary for me to emphasise . . . the benefits which I believe would accrue to the Arab population by the adoption of...

note on Lord Ponsonby's Bill may be regarded by some readersas a fall from grace, it may perhaps be worth mentioning that, according to Murray's dictionary, your predecessoi in...

[To the Editor of TEE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In spite of the seemingly cheerful news of the better conditions for Merchant Seamen, carried by a two-thirds majority at the Geneva...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Doctors may not say so, but is not morphia poisoning nearly always the final cause of death in painful incurable maladie4 ? ' Is - LOrd...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Medical Committee of this Association has followed the correspondence under the heading, " Milk : But What Milk ? " and now notes...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Can any of your readers tell me when is a limited edition not a limited edition ? My object in making the enquiry is that I recently...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Colonel Wedgwood says that the story I repeated " of course, Was propaganda, not truth" ; (but why "of course" ?). Professor Namier...

As I write these words a gusty wind is driving rain against the windows, the sky I s grey, the streets are wet and glistening. At such momenta—and in winter, alas ! they are...

Motoring FROM the bulk of a year's letters from The Spectator readers who ask for advice on the buyin g of new cars two facts of special interest emer g e. The first is that...

A musician by nature, since the day when, as a baby of three, he was so enchanted by an Italian organ-grinder in the Champs-Elysees, that his nurse was hard put to it to get him...

Spain is certainly in the news, and publishers are, naturally, taking advant- age of it ; but it seems hardly necessary, in view of the many new books available or in...

Mr. Boumphrey has written just the right sort of book for anybody wishing to make a canoe trip on the Severn and the Thames. Down River (Allen and Unwin, 4s. 6d.) tells briefly...

PLEASURE By Dorothy Ponsonby Senior Miss Dorothy Ponsonby Senior is walking on well-trodden ground in describing the life of Charles II and his mistresses. But in spite of its...

New York State Chronicle (Cassell, 10s. 6d.) Mr Carmer has " tried to interpret that land which is generally designated by residents of New York City as 'upstate.' His...

(Routledge, 12s: 6d.), by Mr. S. L. Bensusan, is a collection of short stories and sketches, arranged to give a picture of a year's life in the heart of rural Essex. Although...

(Michael Joseph, 7's. 6d.) claims that it is a story mined out of the author's memories of his own boyhood . . ." and the author that the " characters and situa- tions . . . are...

This Chatham House pamphlet (0x 7 ford University Press, Ss. 6d.) is worthy of its sponsors. In a remarkably brief and clear narrative, Mr. Radice provides an indispensable...

Tiger Hunters (Hutchinson, 13s. 6d.) can best be described as a synthetic autobiography based on actual experience or knowledge. To make it a continuous personal narrative " a...

of Grey Owl—and they are many—will find Tales of an Empty Cabin (Lovat Dickson, 10s. 6d.) one of his best books. Others will wonder why there seems to be no middle way in the...

Looking Backward—Expansion i n Home Trade SOME few years ago, when writing the financial article for the Christmas number of The Spectator, I had • to apologise to readers for...

STOCK MARKETS IRREGULAR. Aurnoucli the general undertone of the Stock Markets remains firm, price movements during the past week have been somewhat irregular. At one time...

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