NE INDIANA UNIVERSITY S OARTHE WEEK utar to a belief that Churchil d Keynes' speech adcreag • A GOOD deal of the hostile criticism direc international currency plan in the...

Friends of Greece everywhere will rejoice at the unanimous decision of the 25 delegates from all political parties who met in the Lebanon to put aside their destructive...

Among all the satellites of Germany, Bulgaria has given the appearance of being the slowest to read the signs of the times, but that is perhaps because she has most to lose by a...

The scheme of family allowances and social security prepared by Lady Rhys-Williams, and adopted by the Women's Liberal Federation last November, has now been commended to the...

. Throughout his life General Smuts has revealed himself as one of those rare statesmen who is never so immersed in the particular as not to be aware of the background of the...

A report on World Trade " by business men for business men," just issued by the British National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, is a clear, precise, yet...

In moving the second reading of 'the Milk and Dairies Bill, Mr. Hudson made out a strong case for transferring to the Ministry of Agriculture the duties of inspecting premises...

a d T HE Prime Minister's statement on foreign affairs on Wednes- day was comprehensive in its scope and encouraging in its content. It may not satisfy clamant critics who are...

T HERE was a time when Dr. Benes, the President of Czecho- slovakia, hoped to spend his sixtieth birthday, which falls on Sunday, in Prague. Events have not moved quite fast...

By STRATEGICUS W ITH the attack from the Anzio bridgehead a new phase in the battle in Italy has begun. In his Order of the Day, before the opening of the attack on the Gustav...

By MARK FIFE In order to temper the icy wind of change, nations might first be asked to define air-lanes over their national territory. The purpose of these lanes would not be,...

By J. L. HODSON New York, April. CONTROVERSY in the United States is conducted with more o violence than in Britain. That is natural, for it is a country of great...

By GERTI KVERGIC M Y sense of adventure in bookselling was long ago quickened by hearing of a bookstall and lending library at an outpost of the Empire, at Rutbah, where the...

By NICOLAS SOLLOHUB N OW that the Russian armies have crossed the frontiers of their country and seem about to penetrate into the Danubian plain and perhaps beyond, it is worth...

By HAROLD NICOLSON There is a tendency both in this country and the United States to imagine that there will be no such thing as an Italian problem, and to adopt the theory...

THE return to London of the International Ballet for a season at the Savoy Theatre is very welcome to all those who can appreciate a truly artistic and satisfying entertainment....

" Tawny Pipit." At the Leicester Square. — " Underworld." At the Academy.— ,, Ministry of Fear." At the Plaza.—Three Disney Instructional Films. For special showing. How often...

WHAT risks we teachers take In the back row Genius perhaps is sitting, unaware Of his own latent speed, but with an air Of finding all our erudition slow. Maybe there is a...

IT is the fashion to admire Mr. Epstein's portrait busts more than his larger and more advertised works, but the present exhibition includes an imposing full-length study, Girl...

• SIR,—In the issue of May I zth The Spectator published an article under the heading " Greece's Perplexities," which is one of the best published by any review or newspaper...

SIR, —Captain Quintin Hogg, in reviewing the book Your M.P., by " Tiberius Gracchus," complains generally of a lack of candour on the part of the author. His own conduct lays...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sia,—Differences of opinion certainly exist as to the best way in which to solve the problem of Yugoslavia. There is, however, general agree- ment that...

is waste-paper. It may be one-sided and prejudiced, but its statements are true and substantiated. Mr. Hogg and his friends are at perfect liberty to compose—if they can—a book...

F. Fenton Prickett questions my statement regarding the proportion of wholly British blood in the American population, but I believe it to be accurate, although I cannot now...

Sta,—In his recent review of the transport situation, Mr. Noel-Baker said: "I wish I could say that a master plan for the organisation of national transport was being prepared....

SIR,—The article " Doctors' Finance " in the issue of May 19th should cause some scientists to ponder on the status and salary of their profes- sion. May I put forward the case...

SIR,—In his letter of May 5th Mr. Bell ends, instead of begins, with the vitally , important point regarding the film in education—that it must propound a techhique of its own...

SIR, — Thc writer of the letter under the above heading published in your issue of May 19th is about two years behind the times, as in the early part of 1942 there was a change...

Silt —As one who writes for many periodicals, especially aeronautical periodicals, and as a writer who specialises in writing about American daylight bombing, I congratulate...

Sut,—In Lady Oxford's characteristically whole-hearted appreciation of the great writer just deceased, she links his name with that of Professor W. Macneile Dixon as having...

WE may regret the esthetic degeneration of the farm under mechanisation. but some of the more modern methods are at least interesting. For example: the making of silage was...

A Great Leader THE Dutch revolt against Philip II of Spain, one of Modern Europe's most complex and poetic sagas, can bear a considerable amount of re-telling. The story...

Burma Surgeon. By Gordon S. Seagrave. (Gollancz. ns.). Both missionary work and Burma were in Dr. Seagrave's blood. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather and many of...

India Since Cripps. By Horace Alexander. (Penguin Special. 9d.) - MR. ALEXANDER was the head of the Friends' Ambulance Unit, which rendered such excellent service in the Bengal...

DR. AYDELOTTE'S title is not appetising, and it may well, put off many readers who would profit by seeing some of their own pro- blems in an American setting._ Formally, Dr....

Fleet Street Blitzkrieg Diary. By Gordon Robbins. (Bean. 5s.) A BRIEF factual diary means most to those whom it reminds of their own past experiences ; those who knew London...

Faber. 7s. 6d.) Fart too much rural planning is based on theory and designed by people who have no working knowledge of our countryside. Sudi a charge cannot be made against the...

Crab Apple Jelly. By Frank O'Connor. (MacMillan. 7s. 6d.) The Long Ago and Other Stories. By Mary Lavin. (Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d.) THESE tWO volumes of short stories—both by...

86 Union Road, Heclunondwile, 9. " Entered the very - twigs of SOLUTION The winner of Crossword No: 270 Is Yorks.

Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct , lution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, ]:me 6th. Envelopes should be...

R. A. B. Ardley. (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.) IT seems scarcely credible that many volumes on the complicated practice of handling ships hale not already been written. Chapters...

By CUSTOS IT may be for want of heart, but it will certainly not be for want of thought, if our post-war arrangements in the economic and financial fields fail to provide the...