qiiiE proceedings of the Washington Conference do not seem .1. wholly to justify the optimism which is generally expressed in the newspapers. We devoutly wish that it were...

is really ahead of everybody in stopping her shipbuilding. Work on the four new battleships has been suspended. Of course, this has dealt a great blow at the yards, notably on...

opinion, Is to get rid of the Japanese Treaty ; not because we have the least complaint to make against Japan, who has been a fair and loyal ally, but because the Treaty is in...

last week have been the statement issued by Japan and the speeches by M. Briand and Mr. Balfour. The Japanese state- ment demands that there shall be no international...

could be more useful and instructive than M. Briand's revelation of " the inner thoughts of French statesmanship." He was careful not to confirm all that M. Briand said, but, on...

He said that Germany had still 7,000,000 men trained to arms, and a quarter of a million trained officers and non-commissioned officers. He could not help admiring the ingenuity...

Readers experiencing difficulty in obtaining the " Spectator " regularly and promptly through the aboli- tion of the Sunday post or other causes should become yearly...

17th, and had a moat enthusiastic reception from dense crowds of Indians. Ho read a message from the King, who recalled his own visit to India and expressed his hope that' the...

the evening, after their Conference, begged them to be patient and to trust to their leaders. Tho Coalition was a temporary expedient. " Sooner rather than later " it must...

and Lord Carson. It will be remem- bered that Mr. Chamberlain in a recent letter to Mr. Ronald McNeill said that when an All-Ireland Parliament was proposed at the Convention in...

trying to buy an acknowledgment of allegiance from Sinn Finn at the expense of Ulster, which would be forced to submit to an Irish Parliament. Sir L. Worthington Evans said that...

he had reaped the whirlwind. After the Bombay riots he declared that he had been wrong in supposing that " mass civil disobedience " could be non-violent. He had, he said,...

" It is a pity Mr. Lloyd George does not recognize what he asked others to recognize twelve months ago. Ulster certainly does not want to be governed from Dublin, and, what is...

' Ulster is not a minority to be safeguarded. Ulster is an entity to be dealt with. . . It is a separate and different part of Ireland.' The Prime Minister went on " Would it...

on Thursday, November 17th, discussed the Irish question at length. "Colonel Gretton moved a resolution declaring :- " That no settlement of tho Irish question would be...

streets of Bombay, Mr. Gandhi's followers in another part of the city started a violent riot. They attacked the police and killed some constables, they burnt tramcars, and they...

Ameer on Tuesday after ten months' negotiations. According to the India Office, the treaty recognizes once more the complete independence of Afghanistan and the existing...

W. F. Watson, a Labour leader, against the Duke of North- umberland and the Morning Post came to an end. The Morning Post had published articles by the Duke of Northumberland in...

negotia- tion with the Government and rumour has been busy about his intentions. The Morning Post of Monday described a scheme, which is attributed to Herr Stinnes, for reviving...

last Saturday and left England on Sunday. They were enable to accept the conditions imposed by the Government is return for the recognition of Egypt as a sovereign state. The...

and Auto-Suggestion), wo reviewed some time ago, has been delivering a series of lectures in London in which he has expounded the theories and practices of the Nancy School of...

fatal riots at Jaffa last May Day has shown that both Jews and Arabs were to blame. Bolshevik Jews, whom the High Commissioner had unfortunately admitted into the country,...

H. M. Hyndman, at the ago of seventy-nine. Ho was an ardent Socialist of the old-fashioned type, but he was also a man of culture and an ardent patriot. He travelled after he...

Moslems and Christians do not credit the soothing explana- tions given by Sir Herbert Samuel and Mr. Churchill. The natives know what the Zionists mean by " a Jewish National...

having examined the German finances, came to the conclusion that Germany could pay the instalments duo in January and February. According to the Times Berlin correspondent, the...

in our opinion lie the differences between the theories of the Nancy School and those of the practitioners of psycho-analysis. Very roughly we would suggest that the differences...

Nov. 3, 1921 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 88; Thursday week, 88 ; a year ago, 82i.

JAPAN AND THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. D URING the past few clays a wave of depression has passed over the Washington Conference. Hopes that were at first so high are drooping,...

is,. VICTORY for good faith and a defeat for the policy of betrayal—that is the clearest way and the most just way to describe what happened at Liverpool last week. Before the...

King has consented to the betrothal of Princess Mary to Lord Lascelles, Lord Harewood's son, interprets exactly the feelings of the British people. The popular wish is...

and his subsequent admission when the rioting took place in Bombay that he could not control the forces which he had called into existence, are a perfect example of the Asiatic...

so urgent and obvious as it is sometimes made to appear. Its importance is somewhat closely con- nected with what we deem a Bishop's work to be. Those who lay stress on some...

P UBLIC libraries have lately—so wo read in the Press --noted a considerable increase in the number of readers who make use of them. Unemployment would appear to account for the...

EUROPE'S CHAOTIC EXCHANGES. EXAGGERATED APPREHENSIONS—POLITICS THE KEY TO THE SITUATION—INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERA- TION REQUIRED—INVESTMENT STOCKS FIRM— HUGE LOAN FLOTATIONS —...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read,and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] ULSTER AND WEST VIRGINIA. (To...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —A courteous correspondent, writing in your pages, asked me if I would justify by some logical process the idea of self- determination?...

ago'it appeared to be recognized that there were two Irelands. I am under the impression that the Prime Minister himself stated this in a recent speech, but now there is a plea...

[To THE EDITOR . Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia s —While waiting for the Primo Minister's statement, it may possibly be interesting to recall his " considered judgment " on the Irish...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The terrible powsr . of the caucus was never more in evidence than at the Liverpool Unionist Conference held last week. The paid agents...

news paragraph " in your issue of November 12th (only now in my hands) on "bland coercion" receives a categorical endorsement in the remark of your contemporary, the New...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] would be very surprising as well as distressing if either the Spectator or the Morning Post should be found wanting in honesty, courage or...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, We have recently celebrated the third anniversary of Armistice Day, and our thoughts have once more been turned to memories of the War...

[To THE EDITOR OP TYIE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Tour article under the above title, in the Spectator of November hilt, is, as usual, a confused misrepresentation of the real state of...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Tour correspondent "Ulsterman," in your issue of November 12th, stated that Protestants in Ulster were one-third of the population of...

SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If Mr. J. A. R. Marriott (M.P. for Oxford City) was correctly reported out here when he took part in a recent Colonial Office Debate, he raised an interesting...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIII,—NOIT that the problem of the unemployed is to receive immediate consideration, may I be allowed to bring to the notice of your readers...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sre,—Yort may add another blunder to the list of those com- mitted by the Colonial Office, on which you recently commented. A few weeks ago...

THE PIXIES' PLOT. (A pleasant maxim of old time directed the gardener to leave one corner es Nature planned it, for the little people. Thus welcomed, they might be trusted to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Seated the other day by the margin of this little harbour I fell into conversation with my neighbour, an elderly Frenchman with a...

[To THE ED/TOR OF THE ""SPECTATOR.") SIR,—My first two queries respecting your article of Novem- ber 5th on the above were as to why coalowners should be biased against...

" SPECTATOR."] Sta,—So far as I am aware, no one has pointed out in the public Press that November 11th is also the anniversary of the Mayflower' anchoring in Provincetovrn...

ITo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sni,—I have lately been favoured by several catalogues and circulars from enterprising foreign firms that Were caught my attention through...

Pro THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—With reference to your article of November 5th, may I point out that, however feasible and desirable the above process may be, the...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contribution* in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

WILL SHAKESPEARE " AT THE SHAFTESBURY THEATRE. BY CLEMENCE DANE. I THINK that Miss Clemence Dane's play, Will Shakespeare, is, without exception, the worst play that I have...

LIFE OF LORD SALISBURY.* LADY GWENDOLEN CECIL has received so many congratulations that we are almost afraid of wearying her if we speak our mind about her book. Yet we must....

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hints that this book will be his last., but we sincerely hope that he may be wrong. Ho had planned to write his reminiscences in several volumes, but his admirable work upon...

Ma. BaErr-Ssnru was exceedingly well-inspired when, in the present well-printed little volume, he reissued Peacock's delight- fully impish and wicked attack upon poetry and...

to find that Mr. Cecil Torr has resumed his conversations. His new volume of "small talk" is every whit as entertaining as the first, which we commended three years ago. The...

Tars is a collection of papers reprinted from such various sources as the Church Quarterly Review and the Modern Churchman, and read under such different conditions as those of...

IT is worthy of remark that British scholarship should have produced two works, Johann Sebastian Bach, by Sir Hubert Parry, and Dr. Terry's study of Bach's chorale, which must...

By far. the best book on the War from the Russian side is that which. Sir Alfred Knox has just published. He had gone as Military Attaché to Russia in 1911 and he was thoroughly...

( 1 01.0N:3L Nnwuer,, who is known by his excellent Indian guide- books, has done well to reprint some descriptive sketches of motor tours in India. He writes pleasantly and has...

IN this final volume of Karl Mantzius' elaborate work the play- wright dwindles to a star of the sixth magnitude in a dazzling firmament of Keans and Kembles, Talmas and...

by the late Sir James Murray a generation ago is now fast approaching completion. Three more parts of Volume X. have just been published by • A History of Theatrical Art. Vol....

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