Turkish request for revision of the international agreement of 1923 regarding the Dardanelles opened on Monday in an atmosphere of general cordiality, which soon gave place to...

T HERE is a good deal of obscurity about the conditions prevailing in those parts of Abyssinia which are not as yet under Italian occupation. Actually they amount, as Mr. Eden...

Democratic Convention at Philadelphia was a foregone conclusion from the first. Governor Al Smith and four other promi- nent dissidents made an appeal to the delegates to...

Saturday has not aroused great confidence. He plans to restore France's finances by recovering French capital exported abroad and by drawing hoarded currency into circulation...

quarters to discredit the Runciman-Roca agreements negotiated between England and the Argentine in 1938. Unfounded charges have been made against the Argentine Govern- ment, and...

Irish Republican Army as another step in Mr. de Valera's evolution from violence to legality. The I.R.A. repre- sents the Republic of the 1916 Dublin rising, which Mr. de Valera...

the House of Commons, during the debate on the Report of the Unemployment Assistance Board on Monday. The Government's refusal to give any information on the new unemployment...

to work, the situation has become considerably easier and an early settlement is expected. M. van Zeeland's Cabinet was threatened with a crisis, owing to the Socialist...

Frederick Leith-Ross on his mission in China demands the close attention not only of the British Government but of all industrialists concerned with the Far Eastern trade. The...

Government will have to go very carefully if they arc not going permanently to alienate the eleven million who voted in the Peace Ballot and possess therefore a voting strength...

Labour Party very effectively when he said, with reference to the launching of the great campaign on the Government record on the League of Nations—" all that I want to say to...

were driven to take up a defensive attitude on their armament record. It was clear both from the speeches of Front Benchers and Back Benchers that the Labour Party are finding...

of the Liberal Party Conference held in London last week. In numbers and enthusiasm it came near creating a record, and the reorganisation scheme—providing for an assembly, a...

Government rather unexpectedly had much the best of the day in the Censure debate on sanctions. It was a wise move to put up Sir John Simon to deliver the main counter-attack....

Pat' has ended as mysteriously as it began. After ten weeks' absence from Grimsby and a voyage of 5,000 miles her crew are still alive and well, and on Tuesday they attended the...

T HE Government, having made the worst of the case last week for the raising of sanctions against Italy, made the best of it on Tuesday. Though the emotional desire to refrain...

O NCE more the term is nearly over and schools like empires are breaking up. Schoolboys and schoolgirls are subjected to a last and stupefying (lose of advice. Before they are...

is by all accounts laying the foundations of a solid reputation in the House of Commons (though it will be his fate some day to be translated to the Lords). On the now frequent...

Minister of Belgium) T HE League of Nations is faced with a crisis. It has been threatening for some time. The beginning was the check to the League's action in the Manchukuo...

By F. YEATS-BROWN [Mr. Fads-Brown's tenth article, which will appear in next week's "Spectator" under the title of What qf Tomorrow ?" describes a Children's Remand Home in...

By DR. W. HAMILTON FYFE (Principal of Aberdeen University) W HAT our generation calls "the war" was an apotheosis of hatred. Out of it there grew a society which takes for its...

By PROFESSOR ERNEST BARKER T HE University of London is now celebrating its .hundredth year ; but in reality, and apart from legal form, it is more than a centenarian. To...

By JAMES HANLEY T HE charabanc, its garish colours of red and green flinging a defiant ultimatum at Nature's quieter tones, swung round the bend just at that moment when the...

By BARBARA WORSLEY-GOUGH A CLUB is being formed in New York for the curious purpose of protecting the prerogatives of the nobility. If diligent dukes and struggling barons are...

" THE SPECTATOR," JUNE 25TH. 1836. DEATH OF MR. JAMES MILL. This great man paid the debt of nature on Thursday last, at his house in Kensington. Mr. Mill was one of those men...

Commonwealth and Forei2n [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Kansas City, June 15th. SIR,—Kansas is feeling very proud of itself. For the very first time a Kansan has been...

Tim latest version of Show Boat is very lavish. It runs for two hours, contains more than a dozen of Mr. Jerome Kern's melodious songs, and is directed by Mr. James Whale with a...

STAGE AND SCREEN The Ballet DURING last week the attention of many balletomanes must have been focussed afresh upon the achievement of Danilova in Swan-Lake, The Good-Humoured...

Daumier and Courbet THE paintings and drawings of Daumier, of which a magnificent group is at present to be seen at the Leicester Galleries, are the most likeable and at the...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] DEUTSCHLAND ist seit jeher das Land der Legenden und Miirchen. Das ist kein Wunder bei der sprichwortlichen Vertraumtheit des deutschen...

Rabbits and Farmers Farmers in many places are so beset by rabbits that they are anxious for the municipalities to take a hand. The animals are so numerous that they begin to...

SIR,—In the "News of the Week" in your issue of June 19th you say that the Ecclesiastical Duties Measure is " badly needed, but if the machinery set up is over-elaborate it will...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [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"...

esteemed paper to close Jewish immigration for some time, hoping thus to pacify the Arabs. May I, as an old inhabitant of this country, remind you of the riots in 1921 and 1929...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra—To the thesis that the Christian view of the nature and destiny of man provides the ground upon which the pretensions of dictatorship may...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is strange how persistently even peace-loving folk cling to the illusion of " defence," and therefore misconstrue the pleas of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The fact that we promised to assist Abyssinia and are now deserting her apparently causes Government sup- porters no uneasiness. But, even...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Having long been an admirer, of G. K. C. both as writer and thinker, may I thank you for the fine personal tribute paid to his memory by...

ask a little space to draw attention to a point i3 re the afforestation of the Lake District, which I think the landscape lovers have forgotten to quote ; regarding forest fires...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his interesting and illuminating article on " The Scholarship of A. E. Housman," Mr. Bowra speaks—and justly—of that eminent scholar's...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In 1794, in a time of great peril, an Act was passed suspending Habeas Corpus for one year and was continued till 1801, when the peril...

. SI11,—For some time past objection has been raised to the method of election in the University Constituencies. Usually, voting in these elections has to be done by post, and...

[7'o the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Unfortunately those responsible for assigning " test work " do not distinguish between the fitness of unemployed professional workers and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I have just come across a faded photograph of a group consisting of Lords Macaulay and Bulwer Lytton, and Messrs. Thackeray, Dickens,...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A motor cyclist was charged before me with (1) Not carrying a horn to give warning of his approach ; (•l) Not having a silencer to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am collecting material for a biography of Edward FitzGerald, translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. If any of your readers can help...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] 5111,—The Professor of History in Edinburgh University has returned to the charge ; but rather more muddled than usual. South African franchise...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Stn,—With reference to Sir W. Beach Thomas's notes in your issue of June 19th, on the supply of material for nest building, I thought it would...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATMLj Sin,—Some of your readers, who have not yet heard of it, may be interested to know about the World Congress of Faiths, which will be meeting in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—A distinguished Turk who has just visited our display of Scottish foodstuffs at British Industries House exclaimed " But we have this in...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By E. H. CARR MAXIM GORKY has been a European literary celebrity for the best part of forty years ; and it came as something of a surprise, on reading his...

THE writers of what is called official biography are well aware that after a certain lapse of time, the " heavy " material which they have provided will be worked up by . some...

The American Ideal. By Arthur Bryant. (Longmans. Ma. BRYANT quotes an amusing letter of Walter Hines Page which illustrates the complacent ignorance of American history under...

" THESE men, by the very exaggeration of their lives, stamped infinity on the imagination of the West," says Miss Waddell, introducing in an essay of great depth and beauty her...

Six-TY years ago in New York the Theosophical Society was founded by H. P. Blavatsky and Henry S. Olcott. The first important converts of these quaint companions in India were...

The Cardinal Dictator. By Augusto Bally. (Cape. 15s.) FRANCE of the early seventeenth century is for us still obscured by the tarnish of false romanticism which Dumas and his...

SOME of us may remember that several years ago the old genius of Wagner was daringly presented by the British National Opera Company in a series of new and highly untra-...

THE two commonest ways of regarding miracles are the rationalist's (that they are events which contradict human experience and therefore do not happen) and the religious...

The Assassins. By Frederic Prokosch. (Chatto and Windus. 5s.) Ma. PROKOSCH'S novel The Asiatics was praised for an exotic sensuousness, and the good qualities of his prose are...

By PETER BURRA The Fourth Pig. By Naomi Mitebiaon. (Constable. 7s. 641.) The Coolie. By Mulk Raj Anand. (Lai - rence and Wishart. 7s. ad.) Tug-Boat. By Roger Vercel....

Mr. Seligman has produced a fascinating account of the various forms of snow and frost. He discusses in detail the conditions of their formation and the stages by which they,...

Cuironf Literafufe' By Major Desmond Chapman-Huston Good judges among this contemporaries would have given Sidney Low a place among the half-dozen ablest journalists of the...

the progress of aviation. Air power has been developed along militiry lines, and civil aviation has been If side show. Now it seems that man has only succeeded in perfecting the...

his best ; and if lie is not literally a Sussex native he can at least claim to have done more to make the county famous than ninety- -nine out of a hundred natives have. His...

Finance DURING the past few weeks the investor who studies his daily newspaper may have noticed a material set-back in the prices of British Government and kindred stocks, and...

MARKETS IMPROVING. IN another column I refer to the modification which has taken place in views concerning the monetary outlook, and it is this modification, together with a...

BY 5580 rA prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...

The Winner of Crossword No. 195 is Miss Johnson, High- standing, Albion Hill, Loughton. Essex.