Political developments in Germany are taking their expected course. The idea of a coalition between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is rejected by both panics, and it...

The dominant feature of the past week at Strasbourg has been the economic debate on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the dominant feature of that the pessimistic, not to say alarmist,...

It is a familiar technique. Hitler carried it to perfection. Russia has not done that yet, but there is no doubt that Russia is now forcing the pace. Three considerations are...

The present wave of strikes in Finland would give Russia the excuse to intervene if intervention was what she wanted and if, in such circumstances, she bothered about the...

The conference between Dutch and Indonesian delegates which opened at The Hague on Monday is expected to go on for at least two months, but all this time will be needed if an...

The report of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, to be discussed by the full Congress at Bridlington next month is not a conspicuously encouraging document. That...

Peace in Kashmir was due to come in three stages: first a cease- fire, then a negotiated truce, and finally a plebiscite to determine whether the State should belong to Pakistan...

T HERE are some signs that the mutual vilification and insults to which certain newspapers and certain more or less public personalities in this country and America have been...

celebrated (or refrained from celebrating) on Wednesday, a News Chronicle reporter bearded him at his Rapallo home to which he returned with a sigh of satisfaction some three...

a Professor ? The Oxford Dictionary answers the question accurately with the defini- tion: "the holder of a chair in a university." Here the positive plainly implies the...

that they have received a communication from Mr. Ronald Chamber- lain, M.P., emphasising the merits of Mr. Ronald Chamberlain, M.P.. as a public speaker, it is difficult to give...

twice beaten Middlesex soundly Middlesex should secure the County Championship and not Surrey ; but of course odd things do happen in cricket. Anyhow, the issue will be open for...

seeing words given an impossible meaning. Take " oblivious." It means " forgetful (of)" and nothing else—not " unconscious (of)" or "indifferent (to)," or anything of that or...

W HEN staying in Switzerland a wcck or two ago I read with considerable interest an article in a Swiss paper pointing out that the Roman Catholic Church was now by far the...

By L. A. WILLOUGHBY man ; his dismissal of the masses as ignorant and lazy, his conviction of the futility of party politics and of the innate perversities of man- kind which...

B DR. C. K. ALLKN, K.C. AL L children in the eye of the law are problem children. The few who are not actually young _toughs (technically known as juvenile delinquents) are...

By ELIZABETH WISKEMANN T HE first gigantic volume of captured German documents in translation was published in Washington a month ago, and copies have now reached this country....

By AIDAN CRAWLEY, M.P. Strasbourg T HE most exacting test of the experiment of holding a Con- sultative Assembly of European parliamentarians at Stras- bourg will probably have...

tzar is at an end ; and, for the moment, a thorough frustration appears to have finished the revolutionary movement of 1848. Reaction, more or less pronounced, is everywhere in...

MERELY PLAYERS By C. J. PLOUVIEZ (University of Edinburgh) I N its third year, the Edinburgh Festival has established itself so securely as an annual event that one might...

By tiAitoLls NICOLSON I AM always astounded by the amount of knowledge which other people possess. I am not referring to those specialists who can discourse intelligently about...

THE THEATRE • Buoyant Billions '. By Bernard Shaw. (Malvern Festival). MR. BERNARD Strew once claimed that he wrote plays with the object of converting the nation to his...

Command Decision. (Empire.)—The Lost People. (New Gallery and Tivoli.)—The House of Strangers. (Odeon.)—Chicago Deadline. (Carlton.) To appease its public for not providing a...

wife of a Rhondda Valley collier tells us, in ten easy minutes, how she came to be local correspondent for a Welsh newspaper, and how she goes round her job with her baby on her...

came across a little thing on the Welsh programme, called Slices of Life. This must be one of the most modest of the B.B.C. offerings ; but I do not know why it should blush...

The Frogmen , which told of the under-water men, those hardy individu- alists who attacked the Tirpitz ' with midget submarines in her Norwegian fiord, or laid " limpet "...

I grieve to say that the Tolley--Denis Johnston play, Blind Mare's Buff, meant little to me but a most improbable trial scene. Badger's ,Green, Mr. R. C. Sherriff's...

You stir the dust to catch the gleam of gold, And softly the dust settles on your lashes. In blackened walls and shards the story's told, Whether it's then or now is no great...

as well it might be, very full: and—the music apart—Mr. Ivor Brown's five-minute little talks late in the evening did much to catch the social atmosphere of the Festival, and to...

stunts—an undignified and largely irrelevant excursion into politics— the Edinburgh Festival has started peacefully and is running smoothly. The opening concert on Sunday night...

SEX EDUCATION Sut,—Mr. Garcons Williams has had the candour to express some opinions on the controversial subject of sex education. Doubtless he will be expecting some...

Sex and • the School? He seems to envisage sex education as completed in one or two talks with a boy. In girls' schools where sex education is intelli- gently given it is set...

well, when we fmd that an unprejudiced observer like Mr. Horace Alexander can be so misled over recent events in Hyderabad as his article in the Spectator of August 19th reveals...

tits,—If Janus thinks that the present crop of climbing accidents in the Alps is mainly due to the smallness of the tourist allocation, he seems hi be gravely over-simplifying...

SIR,—By his emphasis on the austerities of life for an evening student, E. J. Anderson spoils a good case for State aid to this class of student. I was myself a day student at...

mountaineers in the Alps owing to lack of francs to meet the cost of guides, may I, as an old climber, add two other causes of accidents ? In my day, a week was nearly always...

Sts . ,The Rev. Stanley Evans, with a devotion in an Anglican clergyman worthy of-a better cause, returns to his defence of the Russian Chureh and of the Politburo which...

of August 19th, in his remarks as to the sadness of Alpine climbing tragedies ; as also to deaths on the roads and in the air. But let us not revert unconsciously to the...

NEAR Littichampton last week an observer saw a spectacle that reminds me closely of a South African experience. He was watching the nuptial flights of ants—always an interesting...

nursery, so to call it, in California, in which plants can be supplied with any climate in the world. Doubtless this American scheme is more elaborate than others, but it cannot...

I have been asked for the origin of a quotation and give the passage here for the reason that the author has never, I think, received due acknowledgment for his charm in...

tx,—In a leading article you say: "There may be some ground for dis- antling the (German) factories ; it may be some value as a military cguard." If you have read Mr. Victor...

lovers of birds to know of the return to Britain of species which had been annihilated or scared off by collectors or, in one case, by a photographer or by casual gunners. Two...

p iR,-Mr. Harold Nicolson is wrong in supposing that it is the emotion of envy that has prompted invidious comment upon the holidays of Mr. Levan and Sir Stafford Cripps abroad....

The attention of our readers is drawn to the special air transport facilities offered to subscribers of the SPECTATOR overseas. These enable readers in many parts of the world...

Sut,—Mr. Ronald Owen should persuade his firm to reinstate the typist :when released and see that she is given a post carrying with it some personal responsibility. By so doing...

that ltik appeared have come late; and for this reason I have rejoiced especiAlv , in one shrub, which seems to be rather rare. It is a cross between Buddleia oariabilis and B....

sfit,--1 wonder if your readers who, like myself, greatly enjoy the B.B.C.'s !weekly American Commentary, share my views that similar commentaries from our Dominions would be...

Big Ben by perching on the hands are not the only animals that have disturbed public clocks . It is within my memory that one large church clock was stopped by a swarm of bees...

Shaw. By C. E. M. Joad. (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) DR. JOAD has an engaging habit of being serious at his own expense, and it is clearly to this habit that we owe the present volume....

A Tripod Parliament ? Can Parliament Survive ? By Christopher Hollis. (Hollis and Carter 93.) THE writer of this suggestive and provocative volume was elected M.P. for Devizes...

TILE Oxfordshire election of 1754 is one of the most famous in English history. It stands beside those in Middlesex in 1768, in Westminster in 1784, in Yorkshire in 1807. Yet it...

Behind Europe's Curtain. By John Gunther. (Hamish Hamilton. 15s.) ALL the specialists will grumble over the inaccuracies of detail in this book, the foolhardy generalisations...

Selected Poems. By Alice Duer Miller. (Methuen. 5s.) 7s. 6d.) The Labyrinth. By Edwin Muir. (Faber. 8s. 6d.) Fifty Years of Modern Verse. (Richards Press. 6s.) The Poet's World....

Abigail Adams. By Janet Whitney. (Harrap. 15s.) THE taste for the vie romantie is not what it was, and Mrs. Whitney's book starts out under the great handicap that she has...

Richard Tauber. By Diana Napier Tauber. (Art and Educational Publishers. 15s.) A DOUBLE reputation is generally a doubtful blessing to its possessor Theophile Gautier...

Dancers Under My Lens. By Cyril.W. Beaumont. (C. \V. Beaumont. 18s.) THE world-wide reputation enjoyed by the Sadlcr's Wells ballet is as remarkable a phenomenon as the...

The Poor Girl. By Maxence van der Mecrsch. Translated by Eithne Wilkins. (Pilot Press. 12s. 6d.) The Storm. By Ilya Ehrenburg. Translated by Eric Hartley and Tatiana Shebunina....

FAN AM PS I ° M °1:1 f- e a oil [I U man mmenn rime! unlicarAra SOLUTION ON SEPTEMBER 9 . The winner of Crossword No 542 is Mr. P. F. LEVER, Vale Bank, Haulgh, Bolton, Lancs.

Isi Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on 7 uesday week, f erirpteneber 6th....

By CUSTOS Watt less than a fortnight left before the opening of the financi3' conference in Washington it is not surprising that business on the Stock Exchange is at a low ebb....

MR. GOULD is a consulting psychologist in New York, and this book has a breezy American atmosphere which may discourage some readers. Its complete materialism based on Freud may...

Mon of the contents of The Statesman's Year-Book are always accord- ing to plan. It covers the world country by country, giving under each head all the details, statistical and...

IN the 120 pages of this small book Mr. Myers contrives to pack all that the average concert-goer needs to know about Debussy and his music and to give a very fair impression of...