T HE last week of August finds Russia still the one front on which fighting with decisive possibilities is taking place. There seems every likelihood, it is true, that a battle...

MHE fact that, by desire of the King, next Thursday, the .1. third anniversary of the outbreak of war, is appointed as a National Day of Prayer and Dedication may seem only...

T HE tragic death of the Duke of Kent leaves the King only one brother, the Duke of Gloucester, available to help him in dis- charging those numberless formalities which royalty...

By STRATEGICUS T is not a coincidence that each anniversary of the war finds the Allies in a period of crisis. Hitler has from the first been fighting with every weapon in his...

By R. F. HARROD i T is now nearly twenty years since Miss Eleanor Rathbone pub- lished her classic work The Disinherited Family ; reading the signs of the times she may well...

By BASIL MATHEWS Washington. discrimination against coloured labour. "We are told," negro soldiers explain, "that we are fighting for democracy. The Declara- tion of...

Stings Perhaps because of the multitude of wasps particular attention has been paid to the treatment of stings. It seems to be now established that for bees' stings all the old...

By ANN TODD " W ELL, dear, have you looked at the map?" "No, dear, I have not. I don't hold with maps. Now take Rommel. I ask you, why is it that when he wants his tanks and...

By HAROLD NICOLSON D URING the miserable days of appeasement I used at public meetings to be much heckled by Buchmanites, Jehovah's Witnesses and apostles of the Peace Pledge...

4, The First ot the Few." At the Leicester Square. — " All Through the Night." At Warners. — " Guerillas of the Don." At the Tatier. THE day is fast approaching when an...

ART AT Bush House, in the B.B.C. canteen on the lower ground floor, there is an interesting exhibition of works by members of the European Service of the B.B.C. The...

"Escort." At the Lyric Theatre. THIS is a play about the Royal Navy, and its realism is a refreshing change from some of the sentimental, pointless stuff recently seen on the...

the editorial comments in which the appeal from the Chairman of the India Con- ciliation Group is placed in its proper light. Mr. Gandhi is not the uncrowned king of India and...

THE EDITOR Stn,—Is it not time that we cleared our minds of circumlocution and our language of euphemisms? We are all aware of the saintliness of Mr. Gandhi—a saintliness that...

your issue of August 21st in the letter of . Mr. Carl Heath. His plea for the calling of a conference seems to me to point out the only way of hope for the future ; on tactical...

publish a letter from Lady Cynthia Colville in reply to one from Canon England in your previous issue. Her argument appears to be that because "The Faith" (that is, I suppose,...

Nicolson's "Marginal Conunent " on the action of the official of the Board of Trade in inducing a shopkeeper to sell him socks and shoes without the production of proper...

good nature was the cause of his committing an offence against the law of the land, will wring a pang from ,the hardest heart. But for once your contributor seems to have missed...

Stu,—In your issue of August 21st you attack me for an article on the British Army in Colliers Magazine, apparently basing your. strictures on certain extracts quoted in the...

the chairman of the Congregational Union for closer unity among Christians —"a notable appeal," to quote Dr. Paton in his article on "1662 and All That" which appeared in The...

I Worked With Laval. By Pierre Tissier. (Harrap. 55.) LT.-COL. TISSIER, who now works with General de Gaulle and is the author of The Government of Vichy, devotes 44 pages out...

America Speaks. By Philip Gibbs. (Heinemann. ros. 6d.) IT is a little difficult at first sight to decide why this book is so depressing, for Sir Philip Gibbs is a very...

Continental Planning Europe versus America. By. R. H. M. Worsky. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) Tins interesting study of the Nazi "New Order" in the occupied territories seems to have...

In the High Yemen. By Hugh Scott. (John Murray. as.) OF all the settled regions of Arabia, the Yemen, "Arabia Felix," of the Romans, who vainly tried to conquer it, is perhaps...

Lessons of Allied Co-operation, Naval, Military and Air, 1914- 1918. By Sir Frederick Maurice.- (Oxford University Press. Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of...

Women in Exile. By Jean Ross. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 9s.) The Shadow and the Web. By Mary Merton. (Rpbert Hale. 9s. 6d.) The Children. By Nina Fedorova. (Collins. 9s. 6d.)...

The Christian Interpretation of Sex. By Otto Piper. (Nisbet. los. 6d.) THIS, let it be said at once, is an unquestionably important book on an unquestionably important subject....

S)T UTION ON The winner of Crossword No. 179 is CAPT. RALPH ROBINSON, M.C., 16 Bradmore Road, Oxford. SEPTEMBER 11th

[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Enteropes should be...

How the Russians Live. By Wright Miller. (Fabian Society. 6d.) WAR correspondents have to be facile in impressions and reactions as well as in style, and must necessarily be...

By CUSTOS NEWS from Russia has not brought any general decline in the stock markets, but has shifted the buying emphasis from equities back to gilt-edged. Pressure of funds...