It was fortunate that two quite distinct aspects of the Indian roblem were raised by Labour peers in the House of Lords on uesday, for both of them elicited instructive replies...

HILE the situation on the Eastern front remains as exhilarating as ever the situation in Normandy is disappointing, not to v depressing, in spite of the useful advance of...

The new developments in the Russo-Polish situation raise in a rather disturbing form the whole question of Allied unity. That Britain and the United States should be recognising...

A luncheon of the Anglo-Netherlands Society in honour of van Kleffens, the Netherlands Foreign Minister, attended Mr. Eden was an occasion for something much more than ceremo...

President Roosevelt's speech to the Democratic Convention accepting nomination shows that Mr. Dewey and the Republican Party will not have the chance to fight the Presidential...

There is one gap in the new Education 'Bill waiting to be filled, requiring provision for the public schools, and a policy for tsso- ciating them with the general educational...

The Goodenough Committee's Report on the future of the Medical Schools is a thorough, comprehensive and construe five piece of work, in some ways as important a document as thr...

life it is still impossible to disentangle the essential facts, much less to interpret them with any accuracy. The German official versions are contra- dictory, and Goebbels'...

a Biggleswade audience last week (according to the Sun Express) that he " voted against the Government when Chur acted the fool, not for the first time, nor the last. When he d...

interpretations. Often it is used to indicate some special class of light literature, calculated to fall soothingly on the jaded mind. For me holiday reading means simply the...

de-Nazifying the young Nazis, is being seriously approached, some encounter or incident turns up to make the apparent hopeles ness of the situation inescapable. Take a message...

in the election manifestoes of both the Democratic and the Republican parties in America (an event calculated to inspire uneasy reflections on the influence of the Jews in...

T HERE is one aspect of the flying bomb business which needs a little emphasis ; that is the part played by the Americans in com- bating this plague. It is not so much a matter...

By STRATEGICUS UMMING up my last article I used the words: " In any former war we might have been entitled to say that the end is in sight." there were any justification for...

By OSCAR R. HOBSON T HE International Monetary Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, which ended last week-end, seems to have been as successful as it possibly could.be....

By EDWARD SAMSON T is stated under Assumption B of the Beveridge Report "There appears to be ground for regarding a development of• preservative ental treatment as a measure of...

By HARRY ROBERTS A VERY large proportion of the people of Britain are at the moment living a more or less gypsy life, or, as some put it, " living gypsy fashion." Soldiers,...

As if a hind, tired by long pursuit And the sustained torture of Each surmounting trial, ever-perplexing, Turned by some cool brook and faced The hounds, its features showing...

By C. S. LEWIS T STILL think (with all respect to the Freudians) that it was the concourse of irritations during the day which were responsible for my dream. • The day had...

To him, therefore, fell the task of dissolving the deadlock which had arisen between Algiers, Washington and London. He was fortunate in finding in Mr. Eden a man who shared his...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I 4 AST week upon this page I discussed the murder of Georges Mandel. Certain further reports, which seem to be not without authenticity, have now been...

per- sonalities. Mandel, the man of the people, was a conservative ; Vienot, a man of aristocratic traditions and appearance, was an extreme Socialist. Mandel was violent,...

only forty-seven years of age. In the last war he volunteered as. a lad of eighteen, was severely wounded and was decorated with the Legion of Honour. Thereafter he accompanied...

months have watched with anxiety the strain to which Pierre Vie not's frail health Wit exposed to realise that the pattern of his life achieved so perfect I conclusion. His...

had almost disappeared from many districts, thanks rather to their value as food than to the campaign of poisoning, One favourite rabbit-haunt well known to me has been...

July 20th. One cannot call a grain crop good till it is in the stack or bag, but one can say that up to date the ground and the weather and the farmer have done their part with...

is not extensive) that the bush tomato is a most valuable arrival for those who grow the fruit out- of-doors. You can keep the cloche over it much longer ; and the cardinal...

La Femme du Boulanger " and " The River.' At the Academy. It Happened To-morrow." At the London Pavilion. A STIMULATING programme to be seen at the Academy once again raises...

that red squirrels are coming back, at any rate in the county of Herts. They have been watched by a number of observers, for example, in and by woods near the Great North Road....

Sia,—The urgen't need to safeguard the lives and to promote the w being of the mothers of our country is constantly before the authon responsible for their care. In war-time the...

are like that inevitable body of people which makes so much noise in times of peace when a murderer is brought to book. They sign petitions for reprieves, make eloquent speeches...

Germany," may give the impression that our propaganda is weak, neglected or ineffectual. This is emphatically not the case. The facts are, that the programmes now being put out...

Germany like Mr. Harold Nicolson, Sir Eric Phipps and Lor ‘ il Vansittart try to tell us in their different ways what is wrong with the majority of Germans. Someone always...

THE GERMAN PEOPLE SIR, —Considerations of space prevent my replying to correspondents who have questioned the existence of great numbers—I never suggested that they are a...

Sta,—The questions cited by Mr. Blofeld in your issue of June 301 differ very little in kind or in quality from those with which Chaplain to the Forces were familiar thirty...

Balfour Declaration appended to Mr. Malcolm's letter? It is taken from the Churchill White Paper of 1922. " Phrases have been used such as that Palestine is to become ' as...

Sut,—Sir Louis Rieu's letter favouring the restriction of Jewish immigra- tion and land ownership in Palestine will carry very little weight against the dear view of our Prime...

had to teach my wife, an American, how to do English meney sums, my memories of that ex- perience and of her outspoken comments remain sufficiently vivid for me to support any...

now Lincoln so. London is as notable for their absence, and the apathy of its millions. superb view of the river-sweep from Htmgerford Bridge is hope- sly mutilated by...

R,—Your references tti this subject in your issue of July 21st do timely vice. This is no longer a local, it is a national, issue. The view of se twin monuments as the train...

in,—You discuss " Post-War Housing," and Mr. Hamilton Kerr London in 1970," but I look in vain for any mention of one vitally portant angle of planning which all planners treat,...

considering the c situation are (t) that every year of working in any given colliery incrca the distance of the coal-face from the surface, and therefore also difficulties of...

Marginal Conunen. in your issue of July 2ISI, has he not omitted to take into account t question of labour? I have some reason to think that although m paper were supplied...

scheme would be immense, especially in foreign trading, and the change could be effected with little or no disturbance. But will the forces of British inertia once again triumph...

SIR,—As an interested admirer of Sir William Beach Thomas's " Country Life Notes" which appear each week in The Spectator (to say nothing of those which have appeared...

a prophet as Wilson was: Wi indeed, gave mankind the vision of a world organisation for peace, the structure he set up disregarded the first principles of polit architecture....

infinite pot bilities of development of the flying bombs. Indeed, such devices, of a more devastating and efficient thoroughness than the present missile should provide the...

Sut,—As one who is writing a critical study of Father Hopkins's verse, I have read Mr. Turner's article in your last number with great interest. " Minor " is the last word I...

The Device of Government : An Essay on Civil Polity. By J Laird. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.) IN the course of this most admirable example of what the Fre call " high...

Connoisseurs at Work Wilson Steer. By Robin Ironside. (Phaidon Press. 2os.) Manet Un Bar Aux Folles-Bergere. By Raymond Mortimer. Gal- lery Books, No. 3. (Lund Humphries. 4s....

VERY little has been published in English on the brief campaign in Holland, probably because it was inevitably fought in isolation from the larger struggle in the West. Yet it...

Italy and the New World Order. By Luigi Sturzo, with a Preface Professor Gilbert Murray. (MacDonald. 75. 6d.) DON &run% the former leader of the pre-Fascist " Popolari " a...

S. M. Small, M.D. (Kegan Paul. 16s.) WHEN the last war began, psychiatry meant little more than the custodial care of the insane. Thirty years have witnessed a revolu- tion in...

Towards Zero. By Agatha Christie. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) There Was An Old Woman. By Ellery Queen. (Gollancz. 8s. If I Come Home. By Nellise Child. (Peter Davies. 9s. 6d.) NOT a...

A Bcck Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct licri of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, 5th. Envelopes should be...

P A iS O SOLUTION ON AUGUST 11th h e winner of Crossword No. 279 is Miss H. C. MILNE, V.A.D., .D. Quarters, R.N. Hospital, Haslar, Hants.

earliest to the latest period of his writing. He is best known for his recent poetry in which again and again he warns the present generation to avoid the mistake of thinking...

THIS, the latest in an excellent series, is a very' disappointing pro- ► duction. The photographs are as good as usual, although they are so large that the book has become...

By CUSTOS • ALTHOUGH it is not quite true to say that what went into Br Woods is exactly the same as what has come out, it is a fact the basic principles of the International...

BEECHAMS PILLS LIMITED ARGER PROFIT FROM WORLDWIDE ACTIVITIES sixteenth ordinary general meeting of Beechams Pills, Limited, was yesterday in London. . Louis Nicholas, J.P, the...

INCREASED TRADING PROFIT e ordinary general meeting of Barton and Sons, Liipited, was held Queens Hotel, Birmingham, on Tuesday, July 25th, 1944, Mr. J. E. "kin, M.I.M.E.,...