the conversations in which the indispensable Mr. Eden will take part at Paris on Saturday. It is entirely right that representatives of Britain, France and Italy should...

of the Indian States in regard to certain provisions of the Government of India Bill clears up many points which unauthorized reports of the confidential meeting of Indian...

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right to raise the question of Germany's conscription declaration under Article XI of the Covenant of the League of Nations. The article is strictly applicable. That it covers...

Saturday's Daily Telegraph raises a question regarding the future of the National Government which will have to be increas- ingly considered as the General Election approaches....

of anything for years past that has done so much to bring the police system in this country into disrepute as Lord Trenchard's motor-spy organiza- tion. The whole mentality...

Europe at the moment the rapprochement between Italy and Jugoslavia stands out in welcome relief. Both Signor Mussolini for his wise and courageous initiative, and Prince Paul...

If we had no other evidence that there is something very wrong indeed with the British steel industry it would be furnished by its own complaint that it is unable to compete...

the Greek revolt has hitherto been obscure. He has now explained his attitude in a statement to Athenian journalists which we should like to think has been mis-reported. He is...

Suffolk Street were opened on Wednesday, is a volun- tary organization whose services in focussing attention on housing needs and housing possibilities should prove increasingly...

the debate this week, the thoughts of members have been not on the subject under discussion but on • the menacing shadow of Germany. The decision not to postpone Sir John...

way of dealing with imbeciles, or low-grade mental defectives, in an address to the Eugenics Society last Tuesday. He thought they should be painlessly but relentlessly exter-...

encouragement to the Cabinet. They are con- vinced that it indicates that the country is not nearly as opposed to the limited measure of rearmament that they have undertaken as...

the Air Estimates on Tuesday, should have dispelled some of the alarms of those who assert that this country is in a position of hopeless inferiority in the air. There is a...

convert the amendments requested by the Princes into a conclusive argument for dropping the Government of India Bill, Mr. Churchill retired into the background and the principal...

T HE vital question in the whole field of international politics today is what Germany really means. We know what she has done. She has announced her intention of maintaining a...

HE full-dress debate in the House of Lords this week T on Capitalism will have done good if only in dis- pelling some misapprehensions for which the word " Social- ism "• is...

this time of day about when this country went to war in 1914. But being rather hyper-conscientious in such matters I turned a day or two ago to a reference-book to make quite...

I can understand, without applauding, a Drink More Beer campaign. But the Eat More Bread campaign, initiated by the Millers' Mutual .Association, leaves me perplexed. I have...

a dull business. So the Daily Mail has started a League of Airmen (jointly, I judge, with other of ,Lord R,other- mere's organs), the Daily Express is trying to start Splendid...

H ERR HITLER, I have reason to believe, would welcome the chance of a face-to-face talk with Mr. Baldwin, and it is a wish which ought certainly to be gratified. What weighs...

THE Debates which took place last week in both Houses of Parliament were interesting more for the light which they threw on the foreign policy of the Government than for the...

By E. F. BENSON IT had been impossible for King Edward to pay a State visit to Paris while the South African war was going on. Popular feeling there against England, already...

By MARTIN MACLAUGHLIN A T present Mr. de Valera is supreme in the political sphere. The demise of the Senate is only a question of time ; the Blueshirts arc split ; Mr....

By SQUADRON-LEADER P. R. BURCHALL P ERIODICALLY some more or less new field of scientific research seizes the popular imagination and everything concerning it takes on a new...

By G. 0. NICKALLS rivals might suggest that they had - been influenced by . . some extremely 'Competent sergeant-major. These then are the main . differences in the respective...

By H. E. BATES T HERE is a lovely aspect of spring, the phase of unopened buds, which is almost always obscured by the glories of crocus and primrose and daffodil, and if the...

• By MARGARET MATTHEWS T HE Dean was good to look upon. He had dignity and charm ; eyes of piercing blue, fanatical eyes ; a mouth that might perhaps have belonged to an...

By ASHLEY SMITH I T was so long since I had last seen Val that I scarcely recognized him. It was as if he only resembled someone I knew, but I said his name automatically, and...

By ROSE MACAULAY I TOOK the road on this fine Monday morning with high hopes. I had heard that the streets and roads would be melodious with beaten gongs, on hearing which all...

Rin g master." By Keith Winter. At the Shaftesbury. C‘ The White Devil." By John Webster. The New Phoenix Society MR. KErrit WINTER has a good sense of the theatre, a talent...

comedy part he has had on the screen. He is valet to the Earl of Barnstead, who stakes him during 'a game of strip poker in Paris and loses him to Egbert Floud, a self-made...

[Von Einem Deutschen Korrespondenten] AM 21. Mfirz 1685 wurde Deutschland und der ganzen Welt ein Kind geboren, das den Namen Johann Sebastian Bach erhielt. Dieser Bach wurde...

Chinese Painting " IN Chinese painting the preoccupation of the artist is not so much to depict realistically the form of an object as to seek the full expression of his own...

which this success has been won is not American but, in most of its essentials, English. One of his first inspirers and practical advisers was an Essex semi-intensive farmer who...

Support for the belief that some of the little warblers, supposed to be wholly migratory, are beginning to stay in England throughout the winter conies from an unexpected...

Dagenham and Detroit During the War I spent a day with Mr. Henry Ford at Detroit and heard from him something of his philosophy of life, which is not wholly divorced from his...

Among the flowers that arc early much beyond their wont is pear blossom ; and in some orchards the contrast is very abrupt with the apples. The buds of the apples have scarcely...

at any rate—peculiar interest in the published accounts of Mr. Ford's Essex farm. It was said, wittily though quite untruly, of one of our statesmen that he vowed to make his...

most sorts seems to destroy all the easy generalizations about instinct. No less a person than the last Headmaster of Eton recently ventured to maintain in the public Press that...

(from an Australian Rectory) that should qualify the view held by some of our biologists that the horse must be put down as one of the least intelligent of animals. The thesis...

American of great wealth and much humane zeal made a costly experi- ment in intensive farming in Essex not far from the site of Mr. Ford's farms. At his request I visited the...

letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed letters are given a preference over those...

• . [To ,the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The real difference between Mr. Morris Martin and myself seems to be one of method and not of aims. He wants peace and...

SIR,—Attacks on University representation in Parliament, such as the article published in your issue of March 15th, appear to assume that the ideal constituency is formed by...

SPECTATOR.] Sta,—On Monday, March . 11th, the House of Commons debated the Government's increased expenditure upon arma- ments as set out and explained in the White Paper....

of the paragraph, " The new Beef Policy " on page 378 of your issue of March. 8th, must either be incred- ibly ignorant of the problems of agriculture as a whole, or he must be...

Sin,—Who are the real revolutionaries ? Your contributor of March 8th wrote : Thus the thinkers and writers are the true revolutionaries, Marx and not Lenin, Rousseau and not...

at the end of his article, " Women's Rights," shows so true an appreciation of the issues involved in the women's movement that it is difficult to take seriously his refusal to...

SIR,—Justice is so rarely accorded because it is just that one should not be surprised, perhaps, to find Mr. E. F. Benson writing that woman suffrage was won " not by the...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Dr. Leaf's now somewhat out-of-date writings contain no " crushing refutation " of my statement that the banking system fails entirely to create and issue,...

,To the Editor of TEE SPECTATOR.] Sra,- . —In last week's issue of The Spectator your comment on the arresting picture painted by your correspondent in Shanghai is...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Archbishop of Canterbury has indicated his approval of the policy of the Government in increasing expenditure on armaments. Part...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—People who are interested in the education and advancement of the primitive African have for some time been viewing with concern the...

THE SPECTATOR SPRING LITERARY ‘, SUPPLEMENT

By LORD EUSTACE PERCY Is the writing of persuasive argument a wholly lost art ? The question is prompted by the current literature of " Plan- ning." This word covers and...

Social Judgment. By Graham Wallas. (Allen and Unwin. 5s.) IT was known that at the time of his death, Graham Wallas— there is an endearing quality about the name without the...

Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Eastern Question. By B. W. Seton-Watson. (Macmillan. 21s.) NEW light has been thrown since the War' upon the tangled threads of diplomacy in the...

Practical Ethics. By the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Samuel, M.P. (Thornton Butterworth. 2s. 6d.) SINCE the Home University Library already included an able volume entitled Ethics...

Shallows and Deeps. By Archibald Weir. (Blackwell. 8s. 6d.) DEVOTED readers of The Dark and The Light are already perhaps as familiar as their Mental capacity permits with Mr.'...

A Comparison of Literatures. By R. D. Jameson. (Regan Paul. 15s.) ANY thoughtful person who reads a number of languages will before long become aware of differences not covered...

Letters of Laurence Sterne. Edited by Lewis Perry Curtis.' (Oxford University Press. 30s.) Letters of Laurence Sterne. Edited by Lewis Perry Curtis.' (Oxford University Press....

A Time to Dance and Other Poems. By C. Day Lewis. (Hogarth Press.. 5s.) COMPARED to the majority of his contemporaries Mr. Day Lewis is a prolific poet. He has two qualities...

The Intelligentsia of Great Britain. By Dmitri Mirsky. (Gollanez. Cs.). IN the course of a violent attack on Mr. Middleton Murry's The Necessity of Communism, Dmitri Mirsky...

Tim need for a modern iiiography of Thomas Cromwell has been long apparent, for it is over thirty years since the publication of Professor R. B. Merriman's Life and Letters. The...

10s. 6d.) THESE seven books are all travel books ; that is to say, each of them describes a journey. Granted that common denominator, it would be hard to find seven books more...

THE political life of John Bright was written several years ago by Professor Trevelyan, and Mr. Travis Mills has very wisely made no attempt to match his own biography with that...

Les Memoires de Josephin Perdrillon, Precepteur. By (Bernard Grasset. 15 francs.) Le Beau - flls. By Emmanuel Bove. (Bernard Grasset. 18 francs.) A WILDERNESS of review-copies...

By V. S. l'RITCHETT Cat Across the Path. By Ruth Feiner. (Harrap. 7s. Gd.) THERE is a verse which MIS : " The True, the Good, the Beautiful Those are the things that pay "...

of Mr. Arthur Wragg's indictment of modern society, achieved a well-deserved popularity, and there is little doubt that this sequel (Selwyn and Blount, 7s. 6d.) will be as...

By Maud Cairnes Strange Journey (Cobden-Sanderson, 7s. 6d.) is a remarkable little book : a good novel on a theme that is pure housemaid's delight. Mrs. Tom Wilkinson,...

D. George This is the fifth volume of the Catalogue of the collection of prints of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, printed by order of the Truitees, and to...

LUCIA'S PROGRESS - By E. F. Benson No one can fail to notice the difference between novels that arc written with - real mental effort and novels that are not. One gives the...

"Forbidden Territory" Fiction writers would still hae us believe that visitors forfeit their freedom as _soon as they step off the steamer at Leningrad and on to the shores of...

What of Britain ? Is the craving for foreign travel damaging our own tourist TOURS and CRUISES industry ? Application for seaside accom- modation over the Easter holidays...

is worth 20 shillings here," and the European travel industry is certainly doing its best by lowering charges to counter the disadvantage of the exchange rates and so make it...

fares on special tickets will be in vogue in a number of countries this summer. A reduction of 60 per cent. on the recognized fares has been in force on the German State...

Autocarrier ' will commence running again from. April 1st. Its departure each day will be timed for 11 a.m. and from Calais for 14.30 (2.30 P.m.). * *

Travel Bureau have seemed anxious to arrane their own cruise itinerary by ordinary steamship sailings, our Travel section next month will offer suggestions for preparing cruise...

BY BRITISH VESSELS HrLART (7,500). From Liverpool. Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Para and thence 1,000 miles up the Amazon. 12,000 miles tour, occupying 7 weeks. From £75. DUCHESS...

ETHICS OF INSURANCE. THE maiden speech of Sir Ernest Benn in his position of Chairman of the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution, delivered last...

The Raikvay utlook AT first sight the outlook for Home Railways from the shareholders' point of view is far from rosy. Already, for the first ten weeks of the present year, the...

The accounts of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China Tor the past year show great steadiness as regards the main items of the balance-sheet. The dividend is main-...

TEE Stock Markets, which last week showed signs of recovering, received a fresh shock at the beginning of this week from the startling news that Germany was re-estab- lishing...

The results of the English Steel Corporation—a concern which was formed to - fuse and rationalize the steel-making activities of Vickers, Arinstrongs and Cammell Laird—show...

The recent increase in the dividend on the Ordinary capital of Pinchin, Johnson and Company, the paint manufacturers, from 15 to. 17f per cent., prepared the market for a good...

The latest report of Maple and Co. Ltd. is a cheery one. The profits show a rise of about £12,000 on the previous year and reach the respectable total of £219,479. The...

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The report of Godfrey Phillips for 1934 shows that the profit for that year rose sharply from £127,684 to £207,836, though the costs of winding up the coupon-trading plan have...