P ERHAPS the most important passage in the Prime Minister's speech on its political side was the reference to the forthcoming meetings between• representatives of Great Britain,...

The Archbishop of York's visit to the Metropolitan of Moscow has more than one point of interest. Since it was arranged, the Metropolitan of Moscow has, with the Soviet...

Correspondents in Washington are right to warn us not to attach too great importance to the overwhelming endorsement by the House of Representatives on Tuesday of the Fulbright...

Too much alarm need not be felt over the British Medical Asso- ciation's overwhelming vote against " the creation of a whole-time salaried State medical service." It expresses...

The important point to note regarding the workers' income-tax proposals outlined in the White Paper issued on Wednesday is that though ten months' tax-payments are wiped out in...

It was perhaps an omission in the Prime Minister's speech triat he did not say—for no one else could say it with equal effect— a word in season to those engaged at this time in...

Mr. Alexander's broadcast after the surrender of the Italian fleet gave the public more details than it has had before of our naval difficulties in the Mediterranean down to the...

Sir Kingsley Wood was a man whose great practical ability suffered under—and in some degree triumphed over—great physical handicaps. He had in many ways an unimpressive exterior...

T is one of the great merits of the Prime Minister's periodical I surveys of -the war that he never yields to the temptation to minimise the unfavourable features. As Mr....

ought to be well-informed, about what is happening to the Luftwaffe, which at present seems to be .completely in eclipse on every front. In the east the Russians have now...

By STRATEGICUS O N Hitler's road to Canossa we must expect to be confronted with increasing frequency by portents that make the direction plain. When we can look back upon the...

By HAROLD A. MOODY I AM now in the fortieth year of my residence in Britain. Thus I have spent two-thirds of my life in your midst and in some respects it may be truly said that...

By Q l INTIN HOGG, M.P. G IVEN national unity on the question of Social Justice, we shall be in possession of a firm base from which to pursue our more important purposes. What...

By ALAN PHILLIPS T HE House of Commons, as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury announced on Wednesday, will shortly be called on to enact legislation introducing the...

wasn't out of Chaucer, He wasn't out of Spenser, Nor yet Cervantes, no sir: This sely knight, as Chaucer would have classed him, (But Chaucer pre-deceased him, And therefore...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE July number of the American Reader's Digest (a periodical which has a deservedly wide circulation in the United States) has reached England and is...

" The Biter Bit." Generally released. — Surgery in Chest Disease." For private showing.—" Stage Door Canteen." At the Odeon. — " Stormy Weather." At the Tivoli. — " My Learned...

A MOVEMENT is on foot, sponsored by the Universities' Federation for Animal Welfare, for forming a "wild life authority for Great Britain" to " make available a body of sound...

people: " Perhaps they should have foreseen, though foreign Governments and their ambassadors in Berlin did not, what Hitler was up to and should have overthrown him before he...

Snt,—A thousand miles and more from the Home Country one cannot be au fait with detailed post-war planning in education, but viewed from this distance it appears that...

SIR, —Unlike your correspondent A. H. M. Wedderburn, I did not consider your question of September 'loth (" What do the Federalists find so seriously wrong with the Commonwealth...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—Miss Eleanor F. Rathbone, M.P., accompanies her remarks on " Germany as a Human Problem " with so many obvious proofs of factual misinformation that...

SIR,—Among the weaknesses in our national structure which have been exposed by the war, two are absolutely fundamental. They must be rectified without delay if Britain is to...

Sta,—I hope you will allow me to make a few comments on your paragraph headed " Salaried Doctors." I write as one who had experience for some years in a medical practice in a...

the Christian Faith, Mr. Richard Rumbold offers Youth a superficially attractive creed dignified by the name of Democracy. He starts, however, from the wrong premises by giving...

SIR,—Are not the British and American Governments taking for granted that the nation approves of a policy of blotting out German cities by concentrated bombing? Were the...

Rumbold has given me from the non-Christian angle a very fair criticism of my article, but I very much doubt whether from either of his alternative solutions to Christianity we...

Education," Sir Fred Clarke accused the English of reluctance to re-examine current assumptions. He went on to say: " Not long ago the Conservative Reconstruction Committee, in...

Sni,—It was heartening to see the emphasis on freedom in your leading article " Education and Freedom " in The Spectator of September loth. One wonders if the public is aware of...

Sts,—In the leading article in The, Spectator of September 3rd you say: " Russia today is sacrificing men by the thousand where the .Allies are not sacrificing them by the...

U.S. Foreign Policy. By Walter Lippmann. (Hamish Hamilton. 6s.) FOR many years now Americans have repeated, with some com- placency, that familiar doggerel: We don't want to...

Wendell Willkie's World One World. By Wendell Wilkie. 'Cassel!. .7s. 6d., Tars book is a portent. It is written by the titular leader of the Republican Party; it is a plea for...

Looking Ahead. By Herbert Morrison. (Hodder and Stoughton. 55.) PERCEPTIBLE, lately, in some quarters both in Britain and the United States, is a certain apathetic lethargy of...

(Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) David and Anna. By Robert Payne. (Heinemann. los. 6d.) Imogen Under Glass. By Hilda Lewis. (Jarrolds. gs. 6d.) Three for Cordelia. By Catherine Macdonald...

Charlotte M. Yonge. By Georgina Battiscombe. (Constable. i5s.) I ADMIRE Newman more than Keble. I dislike historical novels. I prefer adults to adolescents. I expected little...

guinea will be awarded w the sender of the first correct s6lutton of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, October 5th. Envelopes should be received not...

winner of Crossword No. 235 is Miss BATES, Hill Top, Red Hill, Worcester.

By CUSTOS WHAT with the steady flow of encouraging war news and the prospect of further substantial repayments of debt by our overseas creditors, it is not surprising that...