T HE:completion .of Queen _ Mary's. seventieth year _last . - ..Wednesday is an occasion for - salutations of no conven- tional .order. No (fee. who watched the COronatiOn...

this country and Germany has various causes. Whatever they may be, they are certainly to be welcomed. Personal contact between Field Marshal von Blomberg, Germany's Coronation...

Strike will be welcomed unreservedly by the millions of Londoners whom the stoppage has for four weeks involved in grave inconvenience and hardship. The manner of its ending...

to do, and now has power to do, for the workers, another event of the last week shows what it has enabled them to do for themselves. Last Friday the first important ballot was...

discuss the Paris Inter- national Exhibition. Just as there is much work to be done on a ship after the launching ceremony, so the official opening on Monday by the President of...

The last week may well be described as one of the most significant in the whole history of the United States. On Monday the Supreme Court upheld the clauses of the Social...

The principle of Mr. Chamberlain's National Defence Contribution has been approved by all sections of the com- munity except Mr. Keynes and the City of London. The concessions...

North Pole" makes an effective headline ; it also signifies the extraordinary progress of Russian polar science. The Russian expedition which landed a party of four on an...

most formidable Socialist quarters were the most gaily decorated were genuinely astonished to hear the grave Labour statements that masses of the people were feeling...

was vividly illustrated in the debate on Wed- nesday on the Government's attitude to the report of the Royal Commission on the Trade and Manufacture of Armaments. The Labour and...

tions, homework has become more and more of a bugbear to schoolchildren. The Board of Education's pamphlet on the subject is therefore most timely. It suggests, "very...

In his speech to the Empire Press Union on Tuesday, Sir John Reith, the Director-General of the B.B.C., made some exceedingly sensible remarks on the relations between...

Cabinet Ministers at the end of a long term of office, but congratulations to Mr. Walter Runciman after his farewell speech in Parliament on Tuesday 'as President of the Board...

Labour Party appeared at their worst in the debate on the Civil List. While being at pains to proclaim their devotion to the institu- tion of Monarchy, they made a series of...

A S George escapes from the distractions, of ceremonial and settles to his appointed labours he is favoured by the Leader of the Opposition, who may be the King's first adviser...

for a withdrawal . of all volunteers from Spain have at length inspired hopes, slight though they may be as yet, of a truce in the Spanish war ; for if the proposals are to have...

W HEN someone asked me what the King would wear at the Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's on Monday I said, without much thought, presumably some naval or military uniform. But...

By WILSON HARRIS S OME cynics might say that Mr. Baldwin was showing characteristic astuteness in getting out while the going is good—though if they did it would mean that a...

By GORONWY REES TN the train two Germans respectfully discussed Great Britain's rearmament. While they were talking a flight of aeroplanes appeared in the sky, changing and...

By MICHAEL SPENDER I N the Arctic the change of season as winter turns to summer means a complete alteration in the way of life of the Eskimo. Along most of the populated...

By E. M. FORSTER S HE was not English and perhaps not eccentric, but she was very much a woman, and she insists on admission into this series. Her baptismal name was Elspath...

By PETER FLEMING TT is odd, it is even a little discreditable, that none of the dictatorships has as yet officially disowned Justice. The Christian religion, objective truth,...

By JAN STRUTHER • KNOW two men, brothers, who are Meteorological highbrows. Weather, to them, is not a mere stop-gap at the convergational feast : it is the guest - Of -...

By LAWRENCE ATHILL W HEN General Smuts, as is his habit, gives to the world some basic truth crystallised in an arresting phrase, he borrows his genius from the great continent...

Commonwealth and Foreign FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Vienna. THE coronation fell at a timely moment. All eyes are on England today, and destiny, that incalculable stage...

STAGE AND SCREEN Mozart at Glyndebourne Mn. JOHN CHRISTIE has concentrated his attention since last season upon the improvement and enlargement of his theatre at Glyndebourne,...

The Coroaation Films HITHERTO the newsreels have been confined, in their present 1- tion of great occasions, to the recording of external splendour. High authority, fearful no...

Sussex Crafts Those who pay any attention to rural crafts in England will feel it right and proper and pleasing that exhibits are going from Willigh to the Paris exhibition. Sir...

History of Europe : " At rare moments of history the feeling of Christian fellowship overmasters the jealousies and hatreds by which the Church of Christ is ever liable to be...

[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" paragraphs. Signed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the correspondence opened in your columns last week advocating "liaison officers" to explain the science of dietetics...

SIR,—In his article, "Everyday Life in Germany," Mr. Everard Allardice says : " When commodities are valued at the correct rate of exchange (is. 8d.), it becomes much more...

Sut,—Professor Mottram very opportunely points out the need for liaison officers between the professorial chair and the women in the home, but would not the ideal officers be...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have no reason to doubt the impression left on the mind of your correspondent, Mr. Hardy, who found that in Germany today "everything in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—When in your last issue, on the day of its appearance, I re-read my own letter about the origin of the saying—" What shadows we are, and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Is there any possible way of reconciling the remarkable uniformity of the annual number of murders with the theory of Free Will ? Every...

SIR,—It was a great satisfaction to us to read in your issue of last week the informative article by Professor Crew under the title " Improving Humanity." The points which he...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—I am glad to learn on the authority of Lord Clonmore that King George IV in later life "changed his habits and became a sincerely...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My father gave me Mr. Max Salvadori's article in last Friday's Spectator to read. I was born and bred in East Africa, and spent my early...

issue of May znst you published a paragraph entitled "Smoke in the Air," in which it was stated that "if domestic coal fires were given up, or smokeless fuel made cheap enough...

every officer at the call of the Brigadier promptly quoted Plato, is an improvement on Baron Munchausen. The Chaplain who was made to stand on his chair all through dinner for...

contributor" Janus" says that a complete acquittal of various charges brought against motorists is contained in the statement by the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis in...

SPECTATOR.] Sr,—Your correspondent is quite right. Nehemiah iii. z refers to the pool called Siloam at St. John ix. 7. Isaiah viii: 6 is another reference to the same pool. The...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It would need a life-time of research to look in all the books said by your correspondents to enshrine the above witticism. I incline to believe those who place...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,-It has been represented to me that I May have caused some misunderstanding by my review of Mulk Raj Anand's book, Two Leaves and a Bud, in your issue of April...

Lyon einem deutschen Korrespondenten) AM Rhein bliihen wieder die Kastanien. In Diisseldorf gehn wir an Land. Wir wissen heutc nicht mehr, wer Dusseldorf die schonste Stadt am...

the very quotation, something next door. Behold : [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] " Start ! ' The word sounded clear from the mouth of the 'Varsity captain of boats, and at...

was Walter Runciman and not Philip Snowden who made that statement about misappropriation of Post Office Savings Bank Funds. I remember very well Snowden's speech the night...

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THERE are two omissions in this book—no article by Augustus John and no full-length criticism of Lawrence's writing. (David Garnett writes an admirable critical sketch. The late...

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of the U.S.S.R. (Lawrence and Wishart. 8$. .6d.) have regarded. isor7 es a purely . proletarian achievement. ' how far the proletarian State Ices really captured thk country-...

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Heywood and all his workes—farces, inter- ludes, epigrams and proverbs—are almost forgotten, it is an exaggeration to say that his "name for three centuries at least has been...

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