are advancing south towards Valencia, but relatively slowly and in the face of strong Republican resistance. The last fortnight has been an extremely successful one for General...

agreement reached by the Non-Intervention Committee on the British plan for the withdrawal of so-called volunteers from Spain is premature. The plan can be put into operation...

be brought into operation forthwith is intelligible. Signor Mussolini finds himself in many difficulties. The wheat shortage creates both financial problems and minor but not...

perhaps significant contrast between Soviet Russia's conciliatory attitude in the Non- Intervention Committee this week and the anti-Fascist pro- gramme just issued by Georgi...

held up Japan's campaign on the Lunghai Railway and saved Chengchow and, for the moment, Hankow. The floods now cover several hundred square miles of territory, forming a vast...

during the last week will dishonour Germany for ever. After four years of Nazi rule her people, once civilised, have sunk to a level of barbarism that is a disgrace to Europe....

has for the moment, but not for long, receded into the background. The negotiations between the Czechoslovak Government and the Sudeten Germans are reported to be progressing...

justice that any man is presumed innocent till he is proved guilty, and British public opinion will be content, in accordance with that principle, to wait with suspended...

querulous reply failed to convince even his own supporters. He admitted that it was not " nice " to hear of British ships being bombed, that we had protested to General Franco,...

debate on Foreign Affairs. Pressed for a statement on certain definite points by the Opposition as to what precisely the Government intends to do about (a) the bombing of...

not one of them. He seemed to let loose a long pent-up fury upon the unfortunate Mr. Mander, when in an adjourn- ment debate he raised the question of the " fundamental...

Commons this week was of exceptional interest, and in the high standard of knowledge and understanding shown might serve as a model of Parliamentary discussion. It is a matter...

in Eire, which leaves Flamm Fail with an effective majority of x5, represents a great personal triumph for Mr. De Valera ; it proves that by achieving the settlement with Great...

was devoted to the Board of Education. Mr. Lindsay delivered an eloquent speech, full of the right sentiments and outlining what had been done in the past year. He spoke of the...

T HIS country is not, in fact, commonly charged with disingenuousness going to the length of perfidy, but it is very commonly charged by foreign critics with hypocrisy, and by...

raids in China and in Spain have horrified the civilised world, but more than anyone perhaps the English-speaking peoples. Yet this country at least has not learned the lesson...

activities of the German Secret Police outside Germany. Already it is being suggested that the absence of two witnesses who had professed themselves willing to give evidence is...

to receive from the University the Shakespeare prize, awarded each year to the British composer whose works are of most " present importance to Germany," came back to England...

failure to make adequate preparations against what we seem to have agreed to refer to euphemistically as " a state of emergency," but in some fields at any rate a good deal more...

with characteristic vigour. Among the celebrations I have noticed have been a function given by the Mayor and Mayoress of West Ham (or was it Poplar ?), a West End dinner with a...

T HE debates on the Coal Bill in the House of Lords raise some rather important questions of principle. Everyone who has followed them realises that the peers opposing the Bill,...

houses of England to make inaccuracies about its history undesirable. And there is, I think, an inadvertent but rather serious inaccuracy embodied in the paragraph in the...

By E. W. B. GILL (Bursar of Merton) T HE recent fate before a Select Committee of the House of Lords of a Bill promoted by the Oxford Corporation should be a warning for all...

By DR. EDWYN BEVAN [A reply to this article by Dr. Gilbert Murray will appear in next week's SPECTATOR] T HE League of Nations Union, we are sometimes told, is losing the hold...

BY MICHAEL ZVEGINTZOV [This is the seventh of a series of articles on conditions in the principal careers open to boys and girls from public and secondary' schools. Next week's...

By MAJOR-GENERAL J. F. C. FULLER W AR is a stern reality in which peace-time fictions, however alluring, are apt to prove extremely costly. This we experienced in 1914-1918 ;...

By DOUGLAS REED W HAT question can an Englishman ask himself today that is more fascinating and more exasperating than this one ? To answer it you must take some standard of...

By BASIL COLLIER E NGLISH opinion on the subject of the French cuisine is of two schools. The ignorant and prejudiced complain of affectation, sigh for honest baked meats, and...

[So far as space permits questions from z ?ciders, particularly those arising out of articles in THE SPECTATOR, and dealing with fact, not opinion, will be answered on this page...

WILkT SHOULD WE FIGHT FOR ?-I By FRANK SINGLETON [The writer, who was President of the Cambridge Union last year and has just taken his degree, is 291 A SCOTSMAN answers one...

CHINA'S ORDEAL : II. FOREIGN HELP By GUENTHER STEIN F OREIGN assistance to the Chinese armies during the first eleven months of the war was considerable and conspicuous,...

" From the Manger to the Cross." At the Cameo, Chariog Cross Road From the Manger to the Cross was made in 1913, and shown at the Albert Hall. As it runs for an hour and a...

MUSIC The Contemporary Festival COMING away from one of the concerts of contemporary music which have been engaging our minds during the past week, I happened to glance down...

/Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] DER BERLINER pflegte schon immer auf die Frage, was fiir ihn das am meisten charakteristische in seiner Vaterstadt sei, halb stolz und...

_Tragedy in Art IF you are an artist in a world which is unsuitable to you, there are three things to do. The first is to paint the world ; the second is to paint something...

A pair of blackbirds in my neighbourhood are now bringing up a third brood in the same nest. How rare it is for the same nest to be used ! I have known a pair of swallows—in the...

An oddity of natural history that is puzzling the very elect must have been noticed by most of those who have been in the country if only for a few superficial hours. Some of...

Many gardeners are perhaps too obedient (though some are too disobedient) to the standard theories about the prejudices of plants. If a species is described as water-loving or...

Those of us—and we are many--who provide nesting sites for our garden birds have watched a good deal of rivalry from time to time. One of the more satisfactory of such issues...

deal of good and ingenious work, especially in regard to the oscillations of the mammal population, are just setting forth to make a survey of the pheasant population, in...

Young birds (and for the matter of that, young mice, rats, rabbits and the rest) have multiplied the population beyond calculation. There are hundreds of thousands more living...

A Parental Cuckoo That immoral bird, the cuckoo, is very freakish in habit. I gave the other day an account of its incontinent meal of four wagtails' eggs. A stranger tale is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] AtheLstan Riley is always interesting, but not always convincing. And in his letter to you he finds the ground for empty churches in the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — The letter of Lady Castle Stewart, in your issue of June 17th, is to be regretted from the liberal Christian stand- point, for the reason...

[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 " paragraphs. Signed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—In your remarks about the disparity between wages and unemployed payments in your last issue, you made a non- committal reference to the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—" The success of independent garden cities has not been such as to hold out any hopes for a problem of this magnitude," writes Mr....

last week's Spectator says that " it is beyond question to anyone who keeps his eyes and ears open that, for the last century, the Roman Church has developed steadily in numbers...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sm,—We are constantly told that no good is done by screaming wildly against the dictators. Probably this is true. All the same, two at least of...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR] SIR,—In his article on " Turnip Townshend " in your last week's issue, Mr. D. H. Robinson restates Townshend's claim to fame as an agricultural...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sia,—At this season of the year- many parents are giving anxious thought to the choice of a school for their children and the width of choice...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—In your note on the subject of " Bombs on , Ships " in last week's issue, you would seem to imply that it is the function of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—Last week's Spectator had a number of letters in which the writers clamoured for some action to be taken - against those who. bomb open...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — With due respect, I should like to query the explanation given in " Current Questions " of what is meant by de jure recognition. De jure...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The writer of your article " The English Bible " claims that the Higher Critics " have destroyed the doctrine of verbal inspiration." But...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — With regard to the article by your motoring correspondent in the issue of June 17th I fail to see how compulsory third-party insurance of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —As the German engineer whose narrative Maurice Edelman presents in his book, G.P. U. justice, I would ask you and your reviewer, Mr. E. H....

would discourage " unadventurous cricket " and help to remove any need for six-day matches and avoid " purely negative play " if from the total of each innings io or 12 runs for...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — The simple answer to the question raised by your correspondent under the above heading seems to me to be that if no members of the Oxford...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I am sorry to have to call your attention to an error in your review of a recent work of mine which is so unfair to both author and...

PAGE Symbolism and Belief (Dr. W. R. Inge) .. 1151 Mr. Churchill and Germany (Christopher Hobhouse) 1152 Germany Speaks (Prof. E. H. Carr) .. 1153 The Middle Way (Honor...

Arms and the Covenant. By the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. (Harrap. 1,8s.) MR. RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has admirably selected and edited a number...

Germany Speaks. By Twenty-one leading members of Party and State. (Thornton Butterworth. tos. 6d.) THE case for Nazi Germany has been so poorly presented, in comparison with...

The Middle Way. By Harold Macmillan, M.P. (Macmillan. 5S.) THE Middle Way • of Mr. Macmillan's title runs—so the dust-cover shows—halfway between the hammer-and-sickle and the...

THE place lies there below you roughly in the shape of a cross —or a man pegged out on a table for examination. His legs lie up the Banbury and the Woodstock roads among the...

The Lord General: A Life of Thomas Fairfax. By M. A. Gibb. (Lindsay Drummond. 12s. 63.) The Lord General: A Life of Thomas Fairfax. By M. A. Gibb. (Lindsay Drummond. 12s. 63.)...

The Woman Who Could Not Die. By Iulia de Beausobre. (Chatto and Windus. 8s. 6d.) The Woman Who Could Not Die. By Iulia de Beausobre. (Chatto and Windus. 8s. 6d.) TRADITIONS of...

Living With Lepchas. By John Morris. (Heinemann. i5s.) THE Lepchas live between the high desert of Tibet and the cultivated foothills of the Himalaya near Darjeeling. They are a...

This book resembles a lucky-dip. Plunge in a finger at one point, or indeed at several, and you will find what looks like a gossip-column : " Evan Morgan was telephoning to...

The Ladies of Alderley. Edited by Nancy Mitford. (Chapman and Hall. xis.) ANYTHING Victorian, or even the affectation and imitation of anything Victorian, seems to be in...

By EVELYN WAUGH National Provincial is a long, ambitious and unusually successful novel about politics ; not about politics in the Disraelian sense—the world of high diplomacy...

be held at Lucerne this summer is causing keen interest in the musical world. An outstanding feature will be a particularly interesting concert conducted by Maestro Arturo...

- By CUSTOS WELL, the dollar devaluations hare has been mercilessly run off the field, but here we are with stocks and commodities lifting their battered heads again like...

not be exciting but they are very good. In fact, it is partly just because they are not exciting that they are good. Some of the older (Continued on page 1x66.) mines now past...

FoR a full exposition of the important statistical truth that the secular trend on the oil industry is upward investors cannot do better than study Lord Cadman's review at the...

BOOTS PURE DRUG CO., LIMITED THE fiftieth annual ordinary general meeting of Boots Pure Drug Company, Limited, was held on June 16th at Station Street, Nottingham. The Right...

After such a chorus of Ichabods from the North the half- year's results of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation must rank as surprisingly good. As everybody knows, new business in...

GENERAL MINING AND FINANCE CORPORATION, LIMITED STRONG RESERVE POSITION Tam annual general meeting of the General Mining and Finance Corporation, Limited, was held in...

It is just a little early yet to be quite sure of the prospects of Canada's wheat crop but the indications are good—good enough, I think, to justify a patient speculator in...

THE OTTOMAN BANK NO CHECK TO RECOVERY IN THE NEAR EAST DIVIDEND MAINTAINED THE annual general meeting of shareholders of the Ottoman Bank was held on January 21st at...

" SHELL" TRANSPORT AND TRADING CO., LTD. LARGER PROFIT VISCOUNT BEARSTED'S REVIEW THE annual general meeting of the " Shell " Transport and Trading Company, Limited, was held...

THE TIN POOL PLAN INSPIRED buying of tin which has recently carried the price from L160 to £180 a ton has again been proved to have drawn its inspiration from the right source....

RISE IN INVESTMENT VALUES COL. H. T. FENWICK'S VIEWS THE ordinary general meeting of Willoughby's Consolidated Company, Ltd., was held on June loth at Winchester House, Old...

Lord Trent's review at the Boots Pure Drug meeting leaves no room for doubt that this progressive business, despite keen competition, is still growing. Last year total trade,...

ANGLO-IRANIAN OIL CO., LTD. A FRESH RECORD LORD CADMAN'S STATEMENT THE- twenty-ninth ordinary general meeting of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., was held on June 20th at 20...

ZINC CORPORATION VISCOUNT HORNE ON POSITION AND OUTLOOK THE twenty - seventh ordinary general meeting of the Zinc Corpor- ation, Limited, was held on June 22nd, at zo...

In recent years Telephone Rentals, operating through its subsidiaries, has played an important part in the advance of the private telephone as an instrument of business...

notify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on '- MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted..

tage. They help to insulate a country, to a moderate extent, against trade fluctuations in the outside world. In his able survey of conditions in the Near Eastern countries at...

While earnings are inevitably affected by the vicissitudes fo the ranching industry, the capital position of Willoughby's Consolidated remains quite strong. Last year this...

Lord Home's picture of the position and prospects of the Zinc Corporation is inevitably one of light and shade. Last year selling prices of lead and silver, the chief...

RECORD NEW BUSINESS THE annual general meeting of Telephone Rentals, Limited, was held on June loth at Southern House, London, E.C. Mr. Fred T. Jackson (chairman and managing...

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