T HE last week has transformed the military situation on the front north-west of Madrid, and immensely improved the morale of the defence generally. Initial success against the...

London will inevitably focus attention on one of the most difficult of the political problems in Western Europe. Belgium, most intelligibly, feels the peril of the position in...

himself faced on his return from Libya with enough problems to tax even his abnormal energy. There is the question of Western Pact conver- sations ; there is the new revelation...

1935, Mr. John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organisation has with extraordinary rapidity revolutionised the labour situation in America. The latest crisis in this process...

was horrified by the news that on Thursday the London Consolidated School, at New London, Texas, had been demolished by an explosion which had killed an unknown number of...

himself could hardly have given a more uncompromisingly discouraging reply to proposals for lower tariffs than Mr. Baldwin gave to a National Peace Council delegation headed by...

Salter in an article in The Spectator that he was elected for Oxford University not on his personality but on his programme finds striking confirmation in the success of Mr....

the two rival Notting- hamshire miners' unions give such concrete advantages to the owners that they would be wise not to insist on their present attitude to the strike at...

the by- election in the Combined English Universities is not confined to the Oppositions. There is a feeling of satisfaction among the more progressive sections of the...

Secretary into the birching of boys is to be welcomed. The reaction of public sentiment against any form of corporal punishment has been carried far—perhaps too far—but...

week were again notable for some valuable contributions from the Labour Benches. Particularly effective was Mr. Garro Jones on the subject of profiteering in armaments. He...

on the Labour back benches, but he will not do himself real justice until he learns to restrain his desire to raise a laugh from his own supporters at almost any cost. Carefully...

by Mr. Dingle Foot under the ten minutes rule and bearing the unpromising title of " Unemployment Insurance (Amendment) Bill to amend section 44 of the Unemployment Insurance...

been averted, though they may recur if there is another heavy downfall of rain or snow, as there well may be. The problem of Fen drainage has baffled experts for centuries ; the...

Dr. Henry Mess points out some of the difficulties involved in the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Local Govern- ment in the Tyneside Area. The Report is indeed...

S IGNOR MUSSOLINI has cut his visit to Libya summarily short, not—that fact is established by unimpeachable official assurances from Rome—on account of the reverse sustained...

O N June 30th of this year the University of Gottingen, the famous Georgia Augusta, will celebrate the tooth anniversary of its foundation by King George II of England and...

P ERIODICAL revelations of the extent to which the Press is muzzled, and the public blindfolded, in the dictator- ship countries are enough to drive the most obdurate optimist...

By PROFESSOR HAROLD TEMPERLEY IN one of his speeches as Secretary of State Lord Morley declared that India, " so far as my imagination extends," will remain " an autocracy." He...

By F. SHERWOOD TAYLOR F OOD-POISONING has been known since remote antiquity. Paracelsus, indeed, held it to be a funda- mental cause of disease, believing that a...

By ROM LANDAU [Serious disorders have been caused by students in Cairo in the past week.] Cairo, March. W HENEVER during recent years anything has happened in connexion with...

By MALCOLM BARNES T HE increasing output of Left-wing literature, out of all proportion to the size of the movement in the country as a whole, as evidenced by the recent rapid...

By ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P. That afternoon I came across in my tour of ancient Rome those colossal maps that Mussolini has caused to be carved in stone, illustrating the conquests...

By WILBUR BURTON T HE League of Nations has been little more successful in its crusade against opium than it has in its efforts to preserve the territorial integrity of China...

Ry ANNA D. WIIYTE S HE came quickly out of the doctor's house and began to walk along the sunlit street. While she was in the consulting-room listening to his smooth voice pro-...

" THE SPECTATOR," MARCH 25TH, 1837. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Easter makes the customary break in the Parliamentary . Session ; but by far the greater portion of Members commenced...

By E. L. WOODWARD I F yoUr hon .. iehold goods are not floating about your ground floor rooms, if your crops are not being ruined, if your car does not hiss, gurgle, and come...

Commonwealth and Foreign From A CORRESPONDENT BEFORE I visited Tanganyika I was of the opinion that the British Government ought not to rule from the map of possibility the...

Valour." At the New Gallery. SINCE Henry James wrote What Maisie Knew a good many writers have been attracted to the subject of divorce as it affects the child—one remembers...

MUSIC Fiddle-de-dee Ma. HEIFETZ, the celebrated violinist, on arriving lately in this country gave it as his opinion that the English are a most unmusical people. I had thought...

[D'un correspondant parisien] DE tous cotes on ternoigne actuellement beaucoup de sollicitude pour les classes moyennes, pour ces bourgeois que naguere encore certains...

notify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

ART IN writing of a painter the critic is faced with three problems some or all of which he may think it his business to answer. First he may define the historical position of...

The Fens The Fens, now so much in the news, have always had an evil reputation. They make a remote, desolate country, once stricken with its own terrible low sickness, bitterly...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Gordon P. Evans' letter in The Spectator of March 19th is a good illustration of the attitude of mind which is the despair of those...

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"...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Mr. John Smith says that I fail to explain why it should be an " Atheist State " which first puts the Christian principle —(" he who...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —The correspondence which has been appearing in your columns on the conditions which prevail in mental hospitals is at least heartening...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Dean of St. Paul's does not push his analysis of Anglican Modernism far enough. He divides it into two sections deriving repectively...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In commenting on Sir Stafford Cripps' recent declara- tion regarding the making of munitions, you state that he is urging working men...

said " the S.P.R. had investigated the case of Mr. Kuda Bux." Of course, it was the University of London Council for Psychical. Investigation which staged the fire-walking tests...

of my earlier letters did I question the intentions of the Evangelists. I have in fact little doubt that they fully intended to draw a picture of Jesus designed to authenticate...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR.—The Congress party swept the polls in most of the Indian Provinces at the Elections. Since then the Congress Working Committee has met...

Mr. E. M. Forster's article on the coming Coronation may aptly recall to readers of Thomas Hardy (if that disowned Wessex precursor of the Shropshire Lad has now any " public "...

by one who writes with such distinction on rural life there is a slip on a point of fact, which, because it may lead to complete misapprehension on an important point, I should...

the rejection of the Caledonian Power Bill in the House of Commons must strike your Scots' readers as distinctly naïve. This Bill, for which there was a majority of Scots'...

made by the German Christians to wean orthodox Evangelical believers from the belief implied in the carol Stifle Nadir, Heilige Nacht universally sung at Christmas throughout...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In spite of the frequent macabre descriptions of prison life given by ex-convicts who have not proved too apathetic on returning to the...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By SIR FREDERICK WHYTE Tars book is at once a monument and a sign-post. It relates the history of the great service in which its author played a distinguished...

Baron Friedrich von Hiigel : A Study of his Life and Thought. By Maurice Nidoncelle. Translated by Marjorie Vernon. (Longmans. 8s. 6d.) Two years ago there appeared in Paris a...

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The Logical Syntax of Language. By Rudolf Carnap. (Kegan Paul. 25s.) The Logical Structure of Science. By A. Cornelius Benjamin. (Kegan Paul. tos. 6d.) I HAVE always looked...

THE English are they human ? M. Maurois is sure that they are : he has known it ever since, as an interpreter in the War, he hung on the silences of Colonel Bramble. Here is...

An Actor Prepares. By Constantin Stanislaysky. (Gcoff.ey Bles. iss.) The Flying Wasp. By Sean O'Casey. (Macmillan. 6s.) Common Sense About Drama. By L. A. G. Stron;. (Nelson....

The Roots of Evil. By Edward Cadogan. (John Murray. 9s.) MR. CADOGAN'S book is described as a " treatise on the methods of dealing with crime and the criminal during the...

Women Who Work. By Joan Beauchamp. (Lawrence and Wishart. 2 s . 6d.) MISS BEAUCHAMP'S survey of the present position of women workers in England is a valuable addition to the...

AFTER Lockhart, Shean, Gunther, Duranty, Farson, comes Webb Miller, " the ace of aces," a star correspondent of the United Press. He was born 44 years ago, " near the tiny...

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EVENTS have moved rapidly since I discussed the favourable prospects of. the Canadian newsprint industry in January. Not merely have sales shown a remarkable expansion, which...

EACH of the two cars I have to report on in this week's Spectator has an outstanding quality which muit appeal to motorists of every age and predilection. These qualities are...

FINANCE IT is a matter of common knowledge that while the private investor has been left at liberty to employ his savings in either home or foreign securities there is a...

INVESTMENT STOCKS Bas I ER. ALTHOUGH general business in the Stock Markets during the past week has been restricted in view of the approaching Easter holidays, a good feature...

The winner of Crossword No. 234 is Mrs. Mcilroy, The Brooms, Stone, Staffordshire.

BY ZENO prtze of one gianea 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...