Berlin broadcast, Hitler and Mussolini, with their' chiefs of staff, met in a town in upper Italy. " Military questions were discussed." Commenting on that laconic announcement,...

Tile Allies are now addressing themselves to a new task that will become of ever-growing dimensions as they advance into country hitherto owned or occupied by the enemy in...

It is important to insist that the powerful air-raid on Rome last Monday was directed against important military targets only, the utmost care being taken to avoid striking at...

In the House of Commons last Tuesday it was generally recog- nised that the Government's recent White Paper on war pensions and allowances represented a large advance on the...

The House of Commons debate on the birth-rate at the end of last week was not entirely without result, since it occasioned the announcement by Mr. Ernest Brown that the...

Upon Mr. Bevin, who bears no responsibility for either the pre- war or the war-time mistakes which have combined to produce our coal shortage, has fallen the invidious task of...

Sir Archibald Sinclair's announcement to his followers assembled in conference that Mr. Ernest Brown and he are to discuss the re-union of the Liberal party, will be widely...

Nothing is more difficult in the framing of communiqués than to 'give the right measure of publicity to the different national units engaged—Indian, Dominion, Colonial,' British...

F OR more than two years the Government have been systemati- cally exploring all sides of the question of national educa- tion. They have consulted Education Authorities, the...

any hardship of spending an hour or two in the corridor of a railway carriage when they are travelling across England by daylight in high summer. I seem to remember that the...

By STRATEGICUS S OME time before the invasion of Sicily it was pointed out that certain of the effects of war on two fronts were already being experienced by the enemy. General...

By ROBERT POWELL Such developments are all to the good, and it is to be hoped that it will be in the spirit of democracy that the many difficult problems ahead will be tackled....

By WILLIAM W. JOHNSON W HEN our village school is caught up on the great wave of reconstruction, which is imminent now that we know the terms of the Government White Paper, it...

By WILLIAM PATON* Many of those who discuss Mr. Gandhi, whether as friends or foes, make the mistake of over-simplifying him. He cannot be subsumed under any one category ; he...

By F. J. YOUNG Oddly enough, it was they, much more than the many amateur societies up and down the country, who interpreted the first stunning impacts of September, 1939, as...

A WET wind blows the waves across the sunset ; There is no more sea nor sky. And the train halts where the railway line Twists among the misty shifting sand, Neither land nor...

By HAROLD NICOLSON and greedy for money ; they wore high collars of tulle, tautened with little sticks of whalebone, and their laughtbr was high and artificial as their tiaras....

The More the Merrier." At the Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion Is the public tired of war pictures and clamouring only for films of escape? This is a problem which is now being...

THE THEATRE DURING its present season the International Ballet has revived that nineteenth-century classic Giselle, in which Mona Inglesby dances the title-role effectively, but...

I SOUGHT no losing cause, but one I found Mere common ground, yet wider than this world, For all that dwell in it are known to God Though little else, because they have no voice...

SIR, —The main reason why desirable parents are not producing sufficient desirable children is because modern housing provides no facilities for them ; and the reason why it is...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—In the present concentration of human effort upon mutual destruc- tion it is widely felt that the values of civilisation are endangered. While...

women is making them cowardly about the "agony of child-birth." I, do not know what evidence there is for this. But it is not surprising if women are realising the immense...

article on the subject of the declining population. I should like to write a few more lines on behalf of us young wives who are so constantly blamed for not producing large...

Sin,—I would urge that the Secretaries of State for the Colonies and for India will see to it that the widest possible circulation is given to Major Collard's article. Every...

" immense scorn" for me, but I do object to her statement that I made a satirical reference to the Madonna and Child. There was no satire in my remark that I did not think this...

of the flourishing of the " creative arts " in France compared with the French in Canada " so barren and so stagnant." The first task is to subdue the wilderness and make it...

secondary school for girls from both town and country—I think I can answer Miss Janet Adam Smith's question about the popularity of Mr. Ransome's stories. They are popular with...

puts the blame on the Conservative party for not looking to the defences of the country. The leading - supporters of the wave . of Pacifism which swept the country were chiefly...

SIR,—At a time when so much is done to provide for and protect the children, there is a curiously concealed and appalling wastage going on about which little is heard and almost...

SIR,—Your leading article showed an appreciation of the importance of the future of civil aviation, but a lack of character, which the Viceroy- elect has defined as knowing what...

Pick your answer, Mr. Peck ; I'll give you three in half a sec.; So pick your answer, Mr. Peck— Planner of Man. Religion I am Man and God began me, Gave me Will, forbore to...

IF anyone desires a picture of scenic beauty that is more than skin deep let him go out into any part he choose of the English country today. Almost every parish is like a new...

Destiny. By Reinhold Niebuhr. (Nisbet. i5s.) BOOKS OF THE DAY Man's Destiny WE May think it strange that on Lord Gifford's foundation, which was designed to promote the study...

THE authors of this book are Field Marshal Smuts's nephew and his wife, both South African anthropologists, one of whom is the author of The Social System of the Zulus. In a...

Latin America. By Preston E. James. (Cassell. 35s.) Mosr North . Americans,. observes Professor James, are out `of touch with the conditions which exist in the other countries...

War and Peace in the Pacific. (Report of an Unofficial Conterence attended by Delegates from Australia, Canada, China, Fighting France, India, Netherlands, N.E.I., New Zealand,...

The Film Sense. By Sergei Eisenstein. Translated and edited by Jay Leyda. (Faber and Faber. los. 6d.) SERGEI EISENSTEIN, Soviet Russia's most famous film producer, came to...

A Curtain of Green. Tales by Eudora Welty. (The Eodley Head 7s. 6d.) The Signpost. By E. Arcot Robertson. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) Hell On The Way. By James M. Fox. (Peter Davies. 7s....

IA Book Token for one guinea will be arparded to the sender of the fuss correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, August 3rd. Envelopes...

The winner of Crossword No, 226 is Miss N. CROFT, 7 Lance Lane, NIVavertree, Liverpool, 15.

By CUSTOS WHILE the war news has not brought any runaway rise in the stock markets, which would be unjustified as well as undesirable; investors have been encouraged...

at the box of tricks that was her machinery, but they got to love her : not least the Navigating Officer, who was secretly delighted when she broke down on the way over and Was...

Report rural education may get less than its fair share of attention in coming discussions on educational reform—except, of course,' in connexion with the dual system argument....