THOUGH there is as we go to press no confirmation of the 1 report that the Shah of Iran has asked for an armistice, the offers he made to the British and Soviet Ministers on...

The Prime Minister's broadcast of last Sunday, an outstand- ing oratorical performance, contained little actually new information about the Atlantic Conference from which he had...

The results of the third German offensive reflect its pace and momentum. In the north Novgorod, which was first men- tioned on Tuesday week, and was claimed by the Germans two...

If greater matters did not make superior claims on pub . attention the importance of the successive reports of the Sel Committee on National Expenditure would be recognised f...

While it is certain that the casualties in Russia are enormous, the estimates forthcoming from various sources must be regarded as mainly conjecture. The Russian High Command...

The attack on Laval and Marcel Deat at Versailles is symptomatic. News from France is scanty, and it is often difficult to distinguish fact from rumour. But there is a general...

Postage on issue : Inland rid., Foreign ana Imperial rd., Canada id.

The political situation in Australia is unfortunate, and it is hard to acquit Labour of the charge of playing party-politics in the face of a grave national emergency. The...

Mr. Mackenzie King's decisive expression of his views the subject of an Imperial War Cabinet are likely to settle question for the present. The arguments in favour of creation...

HE invasion of Iran is a disagreeable necessity. That it is disagreeable may be admitted frankly. To be send- our troops to occupy the territory of a weak neutral ate against...

in Tuesday's papers. Little more than a week ago, as it happened, I was discussing with Sir Norman Birkett Symons' unique book The Quest for Corvo—or rather was listening to Sir...

One of the odd things I have come across in Mr. Seebohm Rowntree's Poverty and Progress (I make no apology fa referring again to this notable work ; this is probably not the...

T HE tendency to describe each of the Prime Minister's set speeches as the greatest he ever made is to be distrusted, so I refrain from saying precisely that of last Sunday's...

Middl e East it will be a little difficult to call Egypt and such PO that. Why we ever did is known only to some official 5l I suppose, found the name handy and adopted it...

shipping situation in the Atlantic. Mr. Alexander has affirmed it in general terms, into which a good deal can be read, and Col. Knox, the United States Secretary of the Navy,...

in England, completed its first year of existence on Tuesday, and I offer it well-deserved congratulations. It has been fortunate in its first editor, M. Pierre Comert, whom...

THE OPERATIONS IN IRAN By STRATEGICUS T scarcely needs to be said that strategically Iran is of immense importance in the Middle East. Every peril which ght arise from an...

By P. LAMARTINE YATES V ERY soon, as the days shorten and grass stops growing, milk will become scarce, perhaps extremely scarce. Already a scheme of rationing has been...

By CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS ERE is a vital question about which we hear next to nothing. Is anything being done about it? The war will d in X yeah and months. As demobilisation...

By MARK STERLING I N any " new order," for Europe or for the world, one necessity is fundamental—to prevent any recurrence of the chaotic currency-conditions that followed the...

By R. S. R. FITTER S T. JAMES'S STREET, Walthamstow, does not at sight look the right starting-point for a bird-watch expedition—words that conjure up visions of the flat t...

By DOROTHY BLACK I KNEW an Indian poet once, who was a prophet without being aware of the fact. He was also a sanitary inspector, on a rice mill on the Banks of the great...

last eig years the Germanies have been able to acquire not mere]) unitary Reich but also a unitary soul, and that this soul sickened by a restlessness which five times during...

of the German malady (and am sure that some such poison bubbles in every German then surely the Atlantic Charter goes some way to suggest remedy. By providing the Germans with...

which I find seductive. It is the conception (so ably expound e d recently by Dr. Stern Rubarth) that if Prussia could to enucleated from the Reich, then we should all return to...

the general fallacy that human nature is fundamentally the same whether at Cheltenham or Chungking, and the particular fallacy that in spite of superficial differences the...

By HAROLD N !COLSON L ORD VANSITTART, in this week's Sunday Times, questioned with his accustomed vigour the use made in the Atlantic Charter of the phrase " Hitlerite...

blur our judge- ment. At one end of the scale there is the view that all Germans are equally evil and that the sole solution of the German problem is the extermination of the...

IN spite of the title, this, like all Mr. Firth Shephard's admirable r evues, is a family-show, which won't keep the censor awake at Right. This may seem doubtful praise—humour...

Sickert at the National Gallery. THE best show of the year. Not the best Sickert show that could possibly be held, but good enough : exciting and mellow, and a brilliant...

'Forty Thousand Horsemen." At the Leicester Square. March of Time." At the Regal. The Strawberry Blonde." At Warner's. its week the cinema presents two very different views...

Subscribers wishing to have THE SPECTATOR forwarded to a new address are asked to post their notification on the Friday preceding the week in which the change is to operate, as...

n letter signed E. N. Mozley under the heading " Religious Know . The writer, mentioning " the aims of the memorialists--certaml! the clergy," complains that in their letters to...

Sm,—Two of the primary needs of mankind are food and she Absence of either makes life, or civilised life, impossible. B e of this, fear and anxiety about either is highly...

notice with interest in your issue of August 22nd the remarks in " A Spectator's Notebook " concerning the new scheme for instruct- ing "other ranks " of the Army in current...

SIR,—My friend the Dean of Wells asserts the impossibility of o ing the fruits of the Christian conscience without " the system belief and practice to which that conscience owes...

CHILDREN'S VOCATIONS Snt,—Secondary school curricula are clearly destined for immediate post-war reform ; either by internal change or by the creation of new and parallel types...

—Mr. Harold Nicolson has touched on a fundamental failing in war effort—the lack of any spirit or zest in the prosecution of this for freedom and democracy—words used so often...

Sut,—Mr. Harold Nicolson may be right in his judgement that the Roosevelt-Churchill Manifesto fell flat. I heard it with some friends, and all of us greeted the Eight-point...

uneasily for a truth which eludes him. No doubt his analysis tains much that is true, though I do not follow him when he that most of our people look forward to the loss of many...

SIR,—In the article "Atlantic Harvest," published in your issue of August 22nd, I find two sentences which deserve attention and approval. Speaking about the Charter of the...

the schools might tend to ry the g aols, hospitals and lunatic asylums. Magistrates deplore increase in juvenile crime, the hospitals' gracious work is still ted, and if...

Sta,—I notice in your columns a letter regarding the non-collection of refuse in the Henley Rural District Area. In this connexion I would like to mention that representations...

slit,--It is good to see Sir H. S. Gour's letter in last week's issue. Mr. Modale Philip, however, prefers to argue about " finance-control," while the obvious danger to India...

Also on my desk lies a letter from a man who is perhaps the greatest authority on agricultural research in the country. el I ant tired of these soil-mystics," he says. Side by...

Sot,—Does it not seem strange that one class of people working in the - civil defences today has been allowed no increase of wages? That is the employer. Yet, surely, after the...

reached on the question of artificial and non-artificial fertilisers foll ow . ing unprejudiced scientific investigation ?." The result is that I have a pile of pamphlets on my...

on the subject of Mr. Massingham's symposium, England and the Farmer, says that I advocate Land Service Camps on page 97 and ' then discusses them enthusiastically for several...

Sut,—Thank you for the paragraph in The Spectator of August 22nd. Here is a concrete instance of the trouble coming to us. My grand- daughter, aged 18 months, has one and a half...

lowering a of our standards of conduct in this war, basing his remarks on a British airman's account of the destruction his plane carried out in a country district in Germany....

Sno,—As a farmer and egg-producer, I should like to put in a word in favour of Lord Woolton's egg-scheme, about which Mr. Bates writes so scathingly, but as usual, of course,...

England, by giving refuge to victims of persecution abroad, ha several times enriched her rural industries. On the Continent, cheat from sheep's milk is a common thing. The...

Enjoying Life Jerseyman at Oxford. By Robert Ranulph Marett. (Oxford University Press. iss.) T is fortunate for those of us who like autobiography as a form f literature that...

The Letters of Joseph Addison. Edited by Walter Graham. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 3os.) "THIS volume contains all that can now be found of the letters written by Joseph...

Russia and Ourselves. By Victor Gollancz. (Gollancz. 2s. 6d.) THIS little book is a rare example of balanced, objective criticism by a writer who, in spite of strong Left...

Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist. By Leopold Infeld. (Gollancz. 12S. 6d.) THIS moving work lifts a corner of the curtain that shuts us off from understanding the strange and...

The Case for African Freedom. By Joyce Carey. (Seeker and Warburg. Searchlight Books. 2S.) The Case for African Freedom. By Joyce Carey. (Seeker and Warburg. Searchlight Books....

A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century. By Charles Singer. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 8s. 6d ) A COMPREHENSIVE history of science cannot yet be written, because...

Christianity and Classical Culture. A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine. By Charles N. Cochrane. (Oxford : Clarendon Press. 3os.) FROM his snug bachelor...

NORMAN BENTWICH is entitled to claim that he was born a Zionist and that his father was one before him. Bentwich pert was a disciple of Herzl, and he paid a visit to the Holy...

Thus Spake Germany. Edited by W. W. Goole and M. F. Potter. Foreword by Sir Robert Vansittart. (Roudedge. ros. 6d.) THE first, but, it is to be hoped, not the only, consequence...

The White Horseman. Prose and Verse of the New Apocalypse. Edited by G. F. Hendry and Henry Treece. (Routledge. 6s.) IT is ten years since the Auden-Spender group of poets...

No one remembers the makers of Yugoslavia or of greater Rumania ; and the greatness even of Pilsudski was of a limited sort. But the figure of Masaryk gives the central European...

THE sound of church bells, so he assured us, enabled Mr. Froude on occasions partially to bridge the gap separating him from the Middle Ages ; in much the same way Dr. Hill's...

At Odd Moments. By Bernard Darwin. (Oxford University Press. 55.) Good -Company. By Arthur Stanley. (Gollancz. 3s. 6d.) AN anthology of poems needs no apology apart from the...

China Shall Rise Again. By Madame Chiang Kai-shek. (Hurst and Blacken. ][25. 6d.) MADAME CHIANG KAI.-SHEK'S contribution to this useful book comprises its lively head and tail....

Ringside. By Trevor Wignall. (Hutchinson. nos. 6d.) MR. WIGNALL has had a very large experience of professional boxing, and, now that he does not expect to return to his job as...

an Introduction by " Q," (Dent. 8s. 6d.) IT was a good idea to bring together these stories of Mr. Leto for though known and appreciated by a select number of the older...

The Growth of the British Civil Service. By Emmeline W. Cohen. (George Allen and Unwin. los. 6d.) Miss COHEN'S book gives one the comforting feeling that there are spheres in...

I Liked the Life I Lived. By Eveleigh Nash. (Murray. 9s.) MR. NASH was attracted towards publishing by reading at the age of sixteen a book about Scott's publisher called...

is far and away the best picture we have yet had of France since the capitulation. Miss Peabody combined an American' freedom to move about much as she wished with a mature...

By the way of novelty the hard-drinking hero of Mr. Patrick Hamilton's book, Hangover Square, suffers from schizophrenia. In his first personality George Harvey Bone is a mild,...

SANGERS, LIMITED ADVANTAGE OF WIDESPREAD INTERESTS E twelfth annual general meeting of Sangers, Limited, was held on ednesday, August zoth, at the Holborn Restaurant, London,...

By CUSTOS APART from a sudden revival in home railway stocks, markets are understandably quiet. Even in these days the usual holiday influences are at work in August, and the...

MR. HENREY, who appears not to be a farmer, purchased a lam, in the Val d'Auge, which, amateurs of cooking will recall, breec, some of the best cooks and the finest chickens in...

SERIAL MAP SERVICE is to be congratulated on producing for August a couple of maps, with commentaries, that are up-to-date and at a glance help to answer certain questions that...

Jos. 6d.) IT might seem rather hazardous in war-time to publish, in the .original, a collection of modern German poetry. But both Mr. Bithell and his publishers have ample...

THE STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA, LIMITED Da one hundred and twenty-eighth ordinary meeting of shareholders was held at the head office of the Bank, to Clements Lane, London,...

BRITISH LION FILM CORPORATION THE thirteenth annual ordinary general meeting of the British Lion Film Corporation, Ltd., was held on August 21S1 in London. Mr. S. W. Smith (...

The winner of Crossword No. 127 is Harold C. Chapman, Tit Abbey School, Tadcaster, Yorks. •

a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the se n d, of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to b, opened. Envelopes should be marked with the words...