T 00 late," said Hitler in sepulchral manner, referring to America's promise of aid to Britain. It will be in time, replied President Roosevelt, armed at last with the...

is not going according to plan. The move into Bulgaria, success- fully accomplished, was not an end in itself. Much of its value to Germany lay in the fact that it exposed the...

As our columns converge on Addis Ababa, co-operating closely with, and substantially aided by, bands of Abyssinian " patriots " headed by British officers, the day when the...

The shipping lc sses for the week ended March 9th-loth were 98,332 tons (British 84,244 tons, Allied 14,588 tons), or 42,482 tons less than the previous week, when the intensive...

The resolutions adopted by the Bombay Conference of Indian Moderates last week and those of the Chamber of Princes at Delhi on Monday and Tuesday bear no ostensible relation to...

Negotiations are in progress, as they should be, between the British and American Governments regarding the supply of food to unoccupied France. There are manifestly objections...

on Service Estimates and a further debate on Recon- struction. Mr. George Hicks gave an interesting account of his new department, the Ministry of Works and Buildings. After...

nor Mr. Greenwood added anything to the carefpl statement made by Lord Reith in the House of Lords. Incidentally it is worth mentioning that Lord Reith sat through the whole...

airmen who are now fighting or training in this country side by side with the R.A.F. will provide some fascinating chapters for the future historian. Among them are Czechs,...

Mr. Ernest Bevin's broadcast on Sunday shows that. the time has come, and the Government realises it, when our resources in nian-power are about to be strained to the utmost in...

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: The most im- portant eients this week have neither been announced in Parliament nor form part of domestic Government policy. President...

Postage on this issue: Inland ifd., Foreign and Imperial id., Canada ad

B OTH inside this country and outside it thoughts and energies are being directed to two distinct but associated ends, the prosecution of the war and preparation for the...

UT ITH air-raid fatalities on Merseyside and Clydeside alone on three nights this month totalling more than those for the whole country in the twenty-eight days of February...

from every frontier of Abyssinia it is worth while remembering that guerilla warfare against the Italian con- querors has been perpetual for the past five years. It has been...

B. Conant, of Harvard, is the most distinguished American now on an official mission to this country. President Conant, who is one of the leading chemists in the United States,...

but the foreign correspondents of papers like The Times and The Daily Telegraph remain still " Our Own Correspondent " simply. Occasionally they should be given in their own...

who ever met him in any of the odd quarters of Europe where you were liable to meet him will ever forget him. His duels with Count Apponyi at Geneva on the perennial " optants "...

General of great experience and discernment on the retired list, who in the past has been in close and frequent contact with Sir Archibald Wavell and holds as high an opinion as...

By STRATEGICUS T HE main danger of the moment is that we should either exaggerate the importance of the military movements that are taking place in the Near East or should fail...

By WILSON HARRIS ts1 issue raised more or less casually in the correspondence columns of The Spectator last week is in reality of such °found importance as to merit examination...

By A. M. CHIRGWIN I T is not surprising that, amid greater preoccupations, the recent report on the Copper Belt disturbances in Northern Rhodesia has attracted little...

By L. B. NAMIER .1 N The Spectator of April 12th, 1940, Mr. Harold Nicolson, when discussing the argument which attributes the "apparent dearth of rising statesmen " to " a...

By A. E. PEARN T HE balance-sheets of the principal joint-stock banks have recently been published, and the figures so disclosed throw an interesting light on the criticisms...

Castle Howard, in Yorkshire, where the writer spent much of his childhood, was burned down last November. THIS is the dream—this is the nightmare— Here magic real, and the...

"Angels Over Broadway." At the Regal.--ii The Trail of the Vigilantes." At the Odeon. Few Hollywood films pretend to be more than entertainment; it is only rarely that they...

Beethoven and Bartok AMONG the great commonplaces in the repertory of music none has, I suppose, become more trite than Beethoven's Violin Con- certo. Even for the ordinary...

THE THEATRE New Faces." At the Apollo. How many years it seems since the nightingale first sang in Berkeley Square. The square was intact in those days, no bomb had fallen in...

Sta,—Dr. Vaughan Williams, in an almost perfectly cut cameo of Sir Walford Davies as the mentor of Everyman (in your issue of March 14th), puts in significant relief his...

SIR, —Your leading article of March 7th, " Which New Order? " is a most useful and constructive contribution to the War Aims con- troversy. As you point out, there is at present...

CONSERVATE SOCIALISM" ant sure that Mr. Hamilton Fyfe is right in forecasting great political and economic changes in the British Empire when the war is over, but 1 think he is...

Sta,—Recently reading a book published by William Heinemann, ion, by Sidney Whitman, German Memories, I came across the following statement of Prince Bismarck, which I think may...

must adduce stronger evidence (and cite his references) before he makes us lose our belief in a time-honoured story which has been accepted without question by such an excellent...

Taylor raises the question of the value of bayonets, and also refers back to "A Spectator's Notebook " of the previous week. Perhaps I can answer both criticisms together. Of...

SIR, —Mr. Orwin is a great authority on agriculture and I had hoped that he would have carried his argument rather further in a third article. Nobody will dispute his view that...

article, " More School Problems," attention to the merits of the great secondary day-schools and yes them the praise which unquestionably they deserve. It is, hags, significant...

Sta,—As an Oxford man I am, I hope, as interested in the good name of Oxford as much as " Janus " or anyone else. But I also happen to know about the work which the Oxford Group...

SIR, —Mr. Herbert Worsley defends the B.B.C. report of Mussolini's recent speech. Emphatically, I do not. " Janus " is perfectly right— after the B.B.C. commentary (not news in...

West Country correspondent sends a series of interesting notes about them, discuss- ing mostly their coloration, but recording also how they come righ t up into the heart of the...

gone. Tulips suddenly take the place of snowdrops, daffodils of the yellow crocuses. Every. rear Tulip kaufmaniana is an unfailing joy: large, delicate water-likes of...

my gardening life, to sell some surplus vegetables. The experience may be useful to those who are attracted by the idea of a little summer pin-money. I put up six dozen leeks...

If there has ever been a bad number of The Countryman I have never seen it. The fourteenth birthday number is slim, but in all other respects as admirable as ever. Its range is...

Sta,—I have not seen the volume of drawings of Campden by F. L. Griggs, which is noticed by Mr. Graham Greene in your issue of March tath, though I have been familiar with the...

The Plain Man as King SPEAKING to one of his guests in the drawing-room of Buckingham Palace after the State Banquet to President Wilson in 1918, King George V expressed his...

1832-1914. By G. D. H. Cole . (Routledge. 7s. 6d.) THE greater part of Mr. Cole's new book covers the same ground as that to which several of his earlier works have been...

J'accuse ! Andre Simone. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) THOUGH the writer of the foreword of this book asserts that it is " told by a Frenchman," and that " only a Frenchman could Or ■...

THIS is another of those vigorous, aggressive, readable and useful tracts in whose production Mr. Williams' energy never flags. It falls roughly into two parts. On the one hand,...

A Selection from the Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell. Edited by L. C. Bennett. (Nelson. 7s. 6d.) Miss BENtarr has edited a volume which will be welcomed by all...

Briton and Turk. By Philip Graves (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.) I no not know when first currency_ was given to the Turkish proverb eski haman eski tas — "It's the same old bath and...

Consider the Lilies, being the second part of Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein. By S. Kierkegaard. Translated by A. S. Aldworth and W. S. Fernie. (C. W. Daniel. 4s. 6d.)...

Shakespeare. By Mark Van Doren. Wien and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) MATTHEW ARNOLD'S famous statement about Shakespeare that others abide our questions, but that he is free, may have...

(Oxford. 2I5.) IF Dr. Johnson had not been so fond of dinners and idleness and of the company of a woman who was able to appreciate his ponderous wit and endure his frightful...

Richard Norman Shaw, 1831.1912. By Sir Reginald Blomfield, R.A. (B. T. Batsford. 12 s. 6d.) SIR REGINALD BLOMFIELD is of opinion that Norman Shaw is almost forgotten. Though few...

Soil and Sense. By Michael Graham. (Faber. 75. 6d. To most people soil is a dull subject, and perhaps sense is even duller, but from these two ingredients Mr. Michael Graham...

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The Empire on Stamps. By Patrick Hamilton. Peter Davies. 7s. 6d.) POSTAGE Stamps of the Empire are miniature hoardings : tiny posters show aboriginal tribes, statues, historic...

Stoughton. 8s. 3d.) THERE is probably no better corrective for an over-addiction to crime-novels than to read half a dozen of them while suffering from influenza. Only the best...

The Defenders. By Franz Hoellering. Translated by Ludwig Lewisohn. (Routledge. 9s.) OF twentieth-century Europe it can at least be said, however wearily, that it is piling up...

UNITED SERDANG (SUMATRA) RUBBER PLANTATIONS DIVIDEND 9 PER CENT. MR. H. ERIC MILLER'S REVIEW THE thirty-third ordinary general meeting of The United Serdang (Sumatra) Rubber...

By CUSTOS SOONER than the City—or the Courtaulds board—expected, Sir Edward Peacock has made a beginning in his unenviable task of selling Britain's "direct investments " in...

BANK OF AUSTRALASIA STRONG FINANCIAL POSITION THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT THE following is a summary of the statement by the chairman, Mr. Edmund Godward, circulated with the report...

ABBEY ROAD BUILDING SOCIETY BENEFITS FOR THE SMALL BORROWER POSITION FURTHER STRENGTHENED SPEECHES BY LORD STAMP AND SIR HAROLD BELLMAN THE annual meeting of the Abbey Road...

LONDON BRICK COMPANY DIFFICULT TRADING CONDITIONS NEED FOR POST-WAR PLANNING SIR MALCOLM STEWART'S REVIEW THE forty-first annual general meeting of the London Brick Co., Ltd.,...

a Book Token jot one g uinea will be g iven to the 'owe, Jr fi n: correct solution of this week's cross w ord puizle4o.be opened. Envelopes shoul d 6 , marked with the words...

SOLUTION 0 N APRIL 4th The winner of- Crossword No. 104 is Pilot-Officer W. J. G° 11 ' R.A.F., Pembroke Dock, South Wales.