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situation substantially. M. Litvinoff's recent move- ments have inspired a good deal of undependable rumour, but it is safe to assume that Russia is more disposed to collaborate...

the League of Nations Council's resolution regarding an embargo on arms for Bolivia and Paraguay is encouraging. By a slip, resulting from unwise reliance on a work of...

T HE Disarmament _Conference meets on Tuesday to take the most critical decisions of its existence— decisions, in fact, which may end its existence. No progress of any...

in the direc- tion of bimetallism in the Bill which has been submitted to Congress with the blessing of President Roosevelt. It directs the executive authority to make purchases...

steel duties, which were due to expire next October, have now been extended indefinitely on the recommendation of the Import Duties Advisory Committee. The industry has enjoyed...

carried through without bloodshed, and has not been followed by political proscriptions. The new Ministry, headed by Colonel Kimon Gheorghieff, appears on the whole to have been...

of the Select Committee on India is in its final stages the situation in India itself has been sensibly modified as result • of the• decisions of the Indian National Congress at...

of the school-leaving age has been fully made out both from the educational point of view and in the interests of an overcrowded labour market. A further reason for hastening...

had arrived at, after consultation with British Equity, to prohibit the appearance of the Viennese chorus at Covent Garden. The representatives of the artists take a very...

relatively few speakers of today who can always be counted on to say something worth listening to, and his address to the Church of Scotland on Tuesday deserves the attention of...

Masaryk for the third time to the highest office in the Czechoslovak Republic is, and promises to remain, a unique event, for under the con- stitution of the country no future...

made in these notes last week to the scandal of the continued circulation of the mon- strous " ritual murder " issue of Der Stiirmer, it is only just to give equal publicity to...

pity that the League of Nations Council could not get so far as to fix the date of the plebiscite in the Saar at its last week's meeting, but an adjournment of eleven days—the...

closed, or extended factories given in the Survey of Industrial Development for 1933 are admittedly not an adequate guide to the volume of production, and not a sufficient clue...

W HATEVER doubts there maybe about the policy of the Labour Party in the event of victory at the polls, at least we know exactly the plans of that section of it which belongs to...

D R. EDUARD BENES, Foreign Minister of Czecho- slovakia, will be fifty on Monday, and the event is to be suitably celebrated in his own country. Some time ago I was talking...

has thrown itself into some- thing formidable in undertaking, as I believe it has decided to, a national referendum on various questions connected with the League of Nations....

about with an appendix inside one. But it is only a comparatively recent fashion. Most laymen, . if asked, when the first operation for the removal of an appendix was carried...

on irritating than on gratifying the public. There must, I suppose, be some profound reason why the programme should never be announced for more than a week ahead, if that. The...

and continue as students raises a good many interesting questions. The avowed reason is the number of secret marriages (and possibly of less regular unions) contracted as things...

T HE death of Willis Abbot of. the Christian Science Monitor is a loss to journalism of the highest type everywhere. After an apprenticeship on various American papers—the...

of Manchukuo by the Republic of Salvador —which is a member of the League of Nations—eon- stitutes one of the high lights of international ' history, and is worthy to be long...

By H. WILSON HARRIS I T is no use pretending that the question whether Germany means peace or war is superfluous. Every German, of course, will laugh at it. But the rest of the...

By SIR CHARLES GRANT ROBERTSON [The biographer of a certain distinguished man wrote of him : " He is the greatest benefactor of mankind whom any age has known." THE SPECTATOR...

By W. A. BREND F EW people have any doubt as to the reality of ptomaine-poisoning. Coroners' juries find that it is a cause of death, Courts of Law award damages for sickness...

By GEORGE SCOTT MONCRIEFF T HE -true Highland cattle, as you will see them in Skye and the West, are far smaller beasts than those that decorated the pictures of a school of...

[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN SORRESPONDENTEN] VON alien deutschen Fischen, die an deutschen Kristen darauf warten, gefangen und gegcssen zu werden, ist der Hering der haufigste und...

P. THOMSON T HE Church of Scotland occupies today a position of quite exceptional privilege• and opportunity. Re- presenting as it does some two-fifths of the population of the...

By LIEUT.-COLONEL J. M. MITCHELL • The Scottish - National Council of Juvenile Organiza- tions was formed in 1919 by the Secretary of State for Scotland. For the past fifteen...

By SIR ROBERT GREIG T HE Scottish farmer is not happy. Quotas, tariffs and marketing boards have not yet brought him the relief that he expected. To what extent they have eased...

By J. R. PEDDIE I T is unnecessary for anyone who would write on education in Scotland to emphasize the strength of the country's University tradition. For centuries there has...

By LADY WHITSON T WO catch-phrases appear frequently in the Scottish Press and public speeches today. They are " southward trend " and " lighter industries." The brains of...

" Touch Wood." By C. L. Anthony. At the Theatre Royal, Haymarket Tat scene of Miss Anthony's new play is Set in a small hotel on the coast of Scotland. Its main theme is of...

Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park THE sun gave his fitful patronage, and the stage, if a little too well-kept for Arden, had all the trim formality which one associates with...

THE part of Chief Inspector Stanton, in this British Inter- national picture, is played by the late Gerald du Maurier. It was his last leading part, though shortly before his...

musical films are rare—as rare as good light music. It is far easier to make some sort of an impression with a strong dramatic subject. And the best light musical films, so...

The Stage and the Frame ARE there many artists liciw for who'lm the theatre has the fascination it had for Degas, for Watteau, for Sickert in his j - outh ? It seems not r but...

FRIDAY, MAY 25th 18.3o Old English Music : Northern Studio Orchestra .. N.R. 19.10 Flower Shows : Beverley Nichols .. .. N. 19.30 Along the Roman Road : G. M. Boumphrey. An...

On May 30th a special conference on "greens" is to be celebrated. Now " green" as a substantive belongs technically to golf, bowls and villages ; but we may make it generic and...

Nesting Zeal By a 'cottage in the same county the bird-loving owner always reconditions the old nest for a fond pair of swallows, and three years ago, by helping the pair to...

Here is a curious tale of the nest-building zeal of a pair of swallows on a - Hertfordshire house. The dis- tinguished owner is now waiting for the sequel. The larder is outside...

A Highland Gateway North is north and south is south ; but I believe that the two will meet in exceptional rivalry at the Scottish National Show which is to be held just a...

In a lovely county, 'otherwise Completely unspoilt by car, shack, or advertisement, I saw, last week, one example of the ribbon type- of bringalitis that had every disadvantage,...

Can anyone trace a " Bloody Turk " ? The question is neither idle nor offensive. The adjective is a compliment, and this particular Turk is much wanted to make good a company...

Thousands visited Whipsnade this Whitsuntide, and one hopes that they observed the special virtues of this most beautiful Zoo. It is right and proper that Whipsnade (which...

(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,—As a German who happened to spend a few days in England and to read Mr. Wilson Harris? " German Impres- sions " I wish to congratulate you...

SPECTATOR.] Sut, — I submit, with the deepest respect, that _ the Arch- bishop's letter leaves Christians as much as ever in a state of desperate obscurity as to what they- are...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Mr. Frank Melland, in his letter to The Spectator published on May 11th, on the subject of the South African Protector- ates, states that...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] 'wrote, on April 20th : " In our mad (voting) system, nobody's vote is worth a jot, unless it is cast for a winner. . . . In every election,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—For the first time, for at least 20. years, a buzzard, or buzzards, have reappeared in this district, where West Sussex, Surrey and...

'[To the Editoi of THE Si2ciiCat:] Sni,—During the period of my association with the Camaro Ballet Society-from its 'inception until the achievement of its artistic, zenith—it...

[To the Editor_ of THE SPECTATOR.] . Sin,—The Socialist League, of which Sir , Stafford Cripps is President, has made clear that the policy of the Labour Party, in power, would...

SIR, —While Sir John Fischer Williams' scheme of proportional representation as a panacea for our is'excellent in theory, it cannot fail to produce complete chaos in practice....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I should be very grateful if any of your readers could give me information on the following two points. • (I.) It was pointed out in...

SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In The Spectator of April 13th is a brief comment on the visit of the Cambridge University Rugger XV to the Eastern States, where your contributor Janus...

of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have never seen or heard the above expression before it appeared in The Spectator, but to me, at least, the meaning of it is perfectly obvious. In my...

Germany has prevented me from answering earlier Mr. Harrison's letter in your issue of May 11th. If he will also study the evidence given before the Committee he will find what...

Sta,_—No finer example of the workings of petty prejudice could be provided. than a sentence in Mr. Ensor's review of Mr. E. Carr's biography of Karl ,Marx. Mr, Ensor says " he...

of justice will be grateful for the prominence given in the columns of .The.Spectator to the need for reform in the• matrimonial jurisdiction of the Police Courts. Lord...

By SIR FREDERICK WHYTE IT has been said that the Indian problem is not one of institutions but of temper. This is not the whole truth, nor the essence of it ; but it is so near...

1919-1925. By Harold Nicolson. (Constable. 18s.) Ma. HAROLD NICOISON'S new book, like his biography of his father, Lord Carnock, is at once the study of a personality and the...

Ix 1931 Whit Buinett and Martha Foley published the first number of Story, in Vienna. The edition consisted of eighty copies, mimeographed. The magazine was devoted entirely to...

Forty-four Years a Public Servant. By C. A. Kincaid, C.V.O., I.C.S. (Blackwood. 12s. 6d.) Ax honest autobiography may not ; ;be the noblest work of man, but it is at least his...

By H. E. BATES Mellory's Yard. By Cecilia Willoughby. .(Cape. 7s. 6d.) • The Captain Hates the Sea. By Wallace Smith. (Heinemann. • 7s. 6d.) The Unexpected Guest. By...

Literature in Scotland IT is now about ten years since the Scottish Renaissance began to be talked about. There was no sign of a renaissance at the time except in the work of "...

• TuEsu ,books, of journalistic gleanings inevitably challenge comparison with:the work of Neil Muni°, more 'kiarliefilarly with The Braiv Days and The LoOker-on, earlier...

The Economic History of Scotland. By L F: Grant. (Long-. • mans. 58.) SOME years ago Miss Grant published an impressive and useful volume on the economic history of Scotland...

of Scotland's physical structure is the huge cleft called Glenmore, which cuts the mainland from Loch Linnhe to the Moray Firth—sixty miles—as clean and straight as if marked...

FOR the benefit of " the genuine Burnsian bibliophile'" Dr. Ross has soilght to' bring together all. the information bearing upon a famous first edition. He ranges from contem-...

IN Squared Circle Mr. Montgomerie shows a considerable advance on his first volume of poems, Via. He is not so consistently didactic ; his thought is clearer, and his imagery...

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CLAN ROBERTSON By J. Robertson Reid There are bulky . Histories of the MacDonalds, Macleods, Cameron and other clans, but the Clan Robertson (Clans...

interest in Prince Charlie has induced Mr. W. C. Mackenzie to give us in Lovat of the Forty-Five (The Moray Press, 5s.) an abridged and up-thdate version of the lengthy study...

Fishing in Scotland SCOTLAND contains. within - its boundaries as fine a variety of angling as can be-found in all Europe, and-it is not difficult to arrange an inexpensive...

-did one of the Apostles come to be the national saint nf Scotland 1' In this-little book, Sak Andrew' of Scotland (The Moray Press, 2s. 6d.), which contains the substance Of...

By Maurice Walsh - Mr. Walsh's latest book (W. and R. Chambers, 75. 6d.) is a tale of Irish tinkers, in .which the hero is a Scot, who joins them for a while, as many...

" MEBBE ye'd better tak ycr niblick wi' ye when ye dee," said Andra to the Bishop. So the story, a story, of course, of Kirkcaldy, the late professional to the Royal and Ancient...

WHEN Ji'me_ comes it is high time to go to - Scotland again. It is time_ to see the sun setting over the en- chanted waters _of Loch Linnhe, to . climb up the Devil's Elbow...

Scottish Banking and Agriculture I SUPPOSE that if one were asked to define the outstanding c haracteristic of British banking at the present day, one would say that it was an...

The latest report of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company is an excellent one. It is true that the premium income in the Underwriting Department was lower, but...

Most of the Insurance Companies seem to have done well during last year in the matter of Fire profits, and in the case of the Sun Life Assurance Society, the results are ahead...

operations for 1933, - The ; profit from. the Fire account was particularly good, amounting tii£501,64`eoniAred with only .1281,000 in the preVious yearimhile from4heAccident...

CHEERFUL MARIEE14. THE tone of the Stock Markets after the Whitsuntide holidayi has been a fairly cheerful one, and in spite of the unsettled outlook in many foreign countries,...

v.b.c. • Although the final dividend of Venezuelan Oil Concessions for the past year was 10 per cent., agairist 121 per cent., the market had looked for the reduction, and...

During the past *reek, the Royal;Dulehand Shell Transport and Trading Companies announced their dividends for 1933. As anticipated they dhow no change from a.. year ago; the...

the. British, Match. Corporation, was _strengthened by the statements at the recent annual meeting, a notice of which appeared in our last issue. In the course of his remarks,...

HAMBROS BANK. At the recent meeting of Hambros Bank, the Chairman, Mr. Olaf Hambro, made some shrewd and interesting observa- tions concerning the general financial situation....

showing that the Company made a larger profit than in the previous year. The gross revenue was £400,000 lower, but owing to a reduction in working expenses of over £650,000, the...

The Travel Mabager of THE SPECTATOR, who has recently returned from Scotland, will be glad to reply to inquiries from readers wishing to spend a holiday in. Scotland during the...

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Spring and Summer Books GENERAL. Scottish Scene. By Lewis Grassi° Gibbdn and Hugh Macdiar- mid. (Jarrolds. 7s. 61) - - The Trial of Guy Fawkes and Others. By Donald Carswell....