THE SUPREME COMMANDER H ITLER'S resolve to take over the supreme command of the German Army can be explained by no normal processes of reasoning. The very terms of the official...

The first move towards the development of a single st:ategy of the Allies has been made in the best possible way, by direct contact between the Prime Minister and President...

The Indian National Congress Working Committee is meeting this week, and its deliberations may throw some light on future developments in India, though the statements made by...

The position of the little garrison of Hong-kong is indeed precarious. Though the island has strong fortifications it is probable that the defending force was too small to...

At the moment when fresh efforts are being made to increase production by recruiting a larger number of women, and trans- ferring men from less to more essential employment, it...

It needs no casuistry to justify the occupation of Portuguese territory in the island of Timor by a force of Aus- tralian and Netherlands troops. Timor is the easternmost of the...

In the House of Commons debate last week on the Govern. ment's powers to conscript men for the Home Guard, Captain Margesson stated that the extent of the new liability would be...

other in the face this week. One is the birth of Christ, which inwardly and out- wardly millions of men and women in every land are com- memorating as they will and can. The...

likely to be of greatest service in the -Upper House, He is an admirable debater (not that the peers at the best of times specialise in cut-and-thrust), with Ministerial...

T HE R.A.F. has in the last week been well plastering Brest by night and day. It has visited Ostend. It has looked in at St. Nazaire. Once or twice, rather less recently, it has...

it was published, and where the author is now living) is interest- ing on many grounds. Its main thesis is that Prussia is the root of all evil in Germany. " If Hitler and...

is whether Mr. Wilfred Pickles, possessor of a Doric accent publi- cised as an agreeable relief from the too dulcet tones and cultured inflexions of some more familiar B.B.C....

order," as a counter in both Nazi and Japanese propaganda, to its source? A paragraph in Otto Strasser's new book, L'Aigle Prussien sur L'Allemagne, takes it back to very nearly...

as were imposed in the last War should be revived in this. Whether there is need for that as a preventive of drunkenness I doubt, but there may very well be a case for it in the...

Commons as a whole have sustained through Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith's death is great. Able, unassuming, reasonable, sincere, Mr. Lees-Smith was a House of Commons man of the best...

By STRATEGICUS T RE most interesting feature on all the fronts is not the present position, but the immediate development it foreshadows. Even in Libya, after a striking...

By V. S. SWAMINATHAN I T is to the credit of Great Britain that earlier, and more, than other civilised countries she was concerned with, and concerted measures to ameliorate,...

By F. A. HAYEK I F any further illustration had been needed of how uncertain and unsettled are the opinions about the characteristic features of German thought ; recent...

WE were long since a family, a people, The legends say ; an old kind-hearted king Was our foster-father, and our life a fable. Nature in wrath broke through the grassy ring...

By PROFESSOR STANLEY COOK T HE Bible of today is not precisely that of our fathers, in that it is not the actual contents but their meaning and application that give it its...

By HAROLD NICOLSON S OME weeks ago I deplored the fact that most of the inhabi- tants of the British Isles are wholly ignorant of the history, institutions and culture of the...

be to admit that each of us has acquired Empire by very similar means. How far more interesting it would be, now that the frontiers have been reached, scientifically to compare...

and British Empires is marred by identical faults and follies, we can permit ourselves to notice, without self-righteousness, that it is also re- deemed by identical virtues....

education on the subject, to realise that the relations between the several States of the British Commonwealth are governed by what is a new and daring experiment in federalism,...

as the National Education Association or the National Council of Educa- tion, were to consider at one of its meetings whether the picture of the British Empire . conveyed under...

" Old Acquaintance." At the Apollo. EXCEPT for a skilfully written second act, this play will add nothing to the reputation of its author, John van Druten. He presents us with...

WE may reasonably wish one another in England—yes, and even in West Scotland—a spring-like as well as a Merry Christmas. Though the sun joins its southerly rising and setting...

The experience of a certain cowman may be recorded for the sake of stimulation of the imagination, and gratitude of the townsman. He went forth on a morning, even darker than...

succumb to the lure of the garden catalogues. that continue to arrive? We can at least economise. It was found this year that a clump or two of sweet peas in an herbaceous bed...

An interesting little experiment by our agricultural research- workers is in progress this winter. A selected battalion of hive bees have been given summer conditions and are...

" Here Comes Mr. Jordan." At the Regal. " Dumbo." At the New Gallery.—" The Rich Bride." At the Tatler. THE supernatural situations which arise in Here Comes Mr. 7ordan have...

SIR,—After two years as honorary secretary to one of the earliest- formed groups of small manufacturers, I agree very largely with your cogent article of the 12th instant. The...

THE FUTURE OF INDIA Sist,—I have just received (October 19th) The Spectator of June 27th and have read the interesting letter of Sir Hari Singh Gour. I have read today cabled...

Snt,—The great weakness of Town and Country Planning Act, 1932, is that the areas are too small for broad ideas of execution, and, still more, for facing the financial problems...

today than he future of Britain when this war has been won. In all these discussions it is generally agreed that no section of the community will have a greater responsibility...

in the number of prosecutions against retail shopkeepers for selling Egg Substitute and Milk Sub- titute which on analysis do not contain the required percentages of certain...

half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Your paragraph " Wages and Inflation " is calculated to convey to at least nine out of ten of your readers that the nasty greedy...

the British- Japanese Alliance of 1902 it may be of interest to record that about that time I heard a story to the effect that when the draft Treaty was submitted to King Edward...

is imperative that no assets shall be wasted on the food front. Great and long neglected potentialities exist in our lakes, waterways; indeed ponds and ditches. Some in-...

might like to hear of Mr. Herbert Read's anthology, The Knapsack, which seems to meet his requirements. It is published, I think, by Messrs. Routledge, at a price I have...

comments on my simple chart: one carries a misauotation of " domestic" (for my " democratic ") group of " know:edges," which is .hen dubbed " tendentious," as applied tc...

The Life and Opinions of Walter Richard Sickert. By Robert Emmons. (Faber and Faber. 25s.) MR. SICKERT recalls with pride that Charles Keene once confided in him. That great...

Towards a New Scotland Prospect for Scotland. By Colin Walkinshaw. (" New Alliance." 6d.) DR. MURE MACKENZIE rounds off her History of Scotland with a volume which is as...

WHEN about 1510 the Italian Renaissance became known in the north, England and France were in the same position towards it. Again, when about 1800 the Greek Revival dominated...

MR. HUMPHRY HOUSE set himself a fascinating task—to " show in a broad and simple way the connexion between what Dickens wrote and the times in which he wrote it." His book moves...

English Education. By Kenneth Lindsay. " Britain in Pictures " Series. (Collins. 3s. 6d.) THIS is not a series of pictures with a text written round them which owes its origin...

OF The Saturday Book one had better tell what the editor says : " Aim : a book, to be issued yearly, for all sections of the reading public." The result is probably a few pages...

WHEN a great many Homers are either nodding or sound asleep, it was with peculiar pleasure of anticipation that one turned to the new work of one who had always been so...

Wanted ! A New Vision. By Axel Heyst. (Minerva Publishing Co. 6s.) THE author has not bothered to acquire enough English to differentiate between was and has been or sneer and...

CARRERAS, LIMITED MR. EDWARD S. BARON'S REVIEW THE thirty-eighth annual general meeting of Carreras, Limited, was held on Friday, 19th December, at Arcadia Works, London. Mr....

ACROSS 1. The engineer doesn't use this as a swim-suit (ii). 9. It is always contained in a sabre- tache (4). so. The humorous nigger-minstrel should, of course, have...

The winner of Crossword No. 144 is the Rev. R. Allen, St. Owen's, Silverdale Road, Burgess Hill, Sussex.

By CUSTOS CYNICS who are saying that the stock markets are behaving with their now familiar foolishness in face of war events are them- selves making their now customary...

THE NATIONAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, LIMITED ANNUAL MEETING THE I 16th annual general meeting of The National Bank of Scotland, Limited, was held in the bank's head office on...