T HE Non-Intervention Committee is losing little time in taking up . the Spanish situation where the German and Italian replies to the British Note on " volunteers " have - left...

in the State trial at Moscow was increased by the arrest of Belobodoroff, who ordered the execution of the Tsar and his family at Ekaterinburg in 1917. The trial pursues the...

that the inevitable has happened. The background- of the dispute between the Army and the Cabinet : is admirably sketched in by the late editor of the Japan_ ClgOniele in an...

that the Turkish proposal of a federal union between Syria and the Sanjak of Alexandretta might provide a basis for agreement in the dispute over the Sanjak between Turkey and...

who is visiting the United States, postponed his departure from Washing. ton by a day, suggests that his conversations with President Roosevelt and Mr. Cordell Hull concerning a...

banking and finance which he delivered on Tuesday as Chairman of the Midland Bank, gave good reasons for thinking that the present recovery, or " boom," will continue. He did...

Nations Council of a committee to discuss the question of equal access to raw materials ought to be an event of the first import- ance. Whether it will be depends partly on the...

of Nations Council regarding Danzig, consisting as it does of the appoint- ment of a new High Commissioner, whose main business it will be to hold the balance even between...

refusal to answer questions put to him by Sir Stafford Cripps and Captain Ernest Evans that the Committee of Civil Servants to whom the cases of the dismissed men were referred...

was made by Sir Stafford Cripps. In view of the trial to which this honourable .and learned member seems likely to be subjected at no distant date by the executive of his own...

and the rights of public opinion to control public policy developed on Tuesday night when the Opposition brought up the ease of five employees dismissed from the dockyards. I...

emigration is to be discussed at the forth- coming Inwerial Conference is more satisfactory than anything the Dominions Secretary was able to say in the two days' debate on •the...

Govern. Merit's decision to drop its project of an aircraft factory near Maidenhead • was universally welcome: That a Ministry which is now devoting special attention to the...

the debate on the dockyard dismissals on Tuesday will dispel the uneasiness the action of the Admiralty has created. It is something that the Cabinet was kept apprised of...

T HE eagerly awaited speech of the French Prime Minister on French foreign policy at Lyons on Sunday contained, rather surprisingly, no reference to Spain, but it went to the...

T HE precise import of the decisions taken by the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury on divorce last week needs to be clarified, in view of the impressions which some...

A FTER a lively discussion at luncheon one day this week on the motives that may have prompted the aston- ishing series of confessions in the Moscow trial I picked up by chance...

By The Right lion. HERBERT MORRISON, M.P. [Mr. Morrison is, of course, leader of the Labour majority in the London County Council. THE SPECTATOR sill publish next week a...

By A. MORGAN YOUNG Then came the wholesale murders of February 26th, 1936. One of the victims, Mr. Takahashi, the Minister of Finance, had, very shortly before he was...

By LORD EUSTACE PERCY 4'yE ought, I suppose, to apologise for so well-worn .a title, but there is virtue in old platitudes. The test of all higher education is whether it allows...

By M. J. BONN [Dr. Bonn's third and last article, on "Isolation and Responsibility," will appear next week] THE American constitution dates from the days when power was...

By R. C. K. ENSOR W HAT'S in a name ? " Thomas Huxley, the believer in doubt, rejoiced that he was christened after the doubting apostle. But Paine for posterity is never...

By GEOFFREY PINNOCK A NYONE who happened to be at Whipsnade one day in December, when the winter's first snow whitened southern England, would have noticed strange behaviour in...

By WILLIAM PLOMER " I T'S apt to be a bit smutty," she said, "but I think we'll have coffee out on the balcony. Such a beautiful day, it seems wicked to be indoors." So to...

By DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR " TALK too much," said my pleasant neighbour at luncheon. "No, really I do," he said, waving aside our protests ; " far too much. And what's more I'm...

notify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

Commonwealth and Foreign By T. G. BARMAN SroeKnoLst, January 2511,. THE acceptance by Hr. Sandler, the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, of Mr. Eden's invitation to visit...

Regal—" Love From a Stranger." At the London Pavilion IT'S always supposed to indicate a keener sensibility to be sniffy about the beauty conventions of one's own day and age....

STAGE AND SCREEN Music Tuts conjunction of names is not so Surrealist as it looks, nor entirely irrelevant to topical events. When Ingres's portrait of Mme. Moitessier was...

Seurat THE history of most sensitive artists during the second half of the nineteenth century is that of a stniggle between realistic and non-realistic tendencies in their...

[D'un correspondent parisieni Vow' bientot vingt ans quc • pia fin In Grande (:tterre. jeune generation n'y volt que de I'llistoire : des noms et de.; dates dans tin livre....

Coronation Gifts Coronation year is sure to be notable for much public tree- planting, gifts of land and, presumably, the preservation of more open spaces. It is not always...

SPECTATOR.] LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suihthle length is that of one of our " News...

SIR,—The discussion in convocation as to administration of Communion to divorced persons who have re-married appears to have as much reality about it as non-intervention in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Reference recruiting problem " (as all the best orderly-room clerks put it), there is one point that appears to have escaped the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To know Germany at all, even on the basis of friendly and unofficial contacts, is to know that Sir Arthur Salter does not exaggerate when...

SIR,—I think some of the implications of his own figures have escaped Mr. Beesly. I doubt if there are any dairy farmers who can " produce profitably " at 6d. a gallon....

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" The Case for Cheap Milk " in your issue for January 15th, and the resultant letter you published last week, are of great interest to me, who am a...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your contributor "Janus" appeared singularly dis- ingenuous last week, in suggesting that Mr. Thurtle's question in Parliament on the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I hope this letter in reply to the Dean of St. Paul's query " What is Rationalism ? " is not too late for publication. Speaking for...

SeEcrivroa.1 Stn,—I read in your issue of January lllth a review by Mark Benney of a book by an " underworldling," in which there is an incident of a " fugitive sex-adventure"...

SIR,—A few brave men are endeavouring, under the shelter of an old French Abbey, to institute an oasis of clear thought, of peaceful co-operation, in the midst of the European...

that in quoting J. K. Stephen's epigram on Oscar Browning I did not verify my quotation. Indeed I have never discovered where the original is to be found. But I will not defend...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By SEAN O'FAOLAIN Author:on the Proletarian Novel is still an aim rather than a reality its grammarians have already enough to go on to challenge the...

TILE jacket of Dr. Madariaga's book informs us that he stands for liberal democracy, albeit not uncritically. His distinguished record in academic as Well as in public life, his...

THE International Missionary Council proposes to hold its next conference in Hangchow in 1938. More than half the delegates will be representatives of the young churches of...

Lord Bothwell. By Robert Gore-Browne. (Collins. 15s.) Life and Letters of Duncan Forbes of Culloden. By Georgo Menary. (MacLohose. 12s. 6d.) Scornsu history is so often...

" HE drank a little tea and some sherry. He wound up his watch, and said, now he'had done with time and was going to eternity." So Burnet on Lord William Russell's last hour....

Japanese Lady in Europe. By Haruki) Ichikawa. Edited with an Introduction by William Plomer. (Jonathan Cape. 10s. 6d.) MR. WILLIAM PLOMER, the editor of this diary, claims for...

The Unexpected Years. By Laurence Housman. (Jonathan . Cape. 10s. 6d.) THE best part of this book is the description, which occupies the first hundred psiges,. of a -...

THE importance to our time of its anthropologists is perhaps primarily their importance as de-vulgarising agents. It is a curious fact that anthropological researches should be...

By WILLIAM PLOMER Eve's Doctor. By Signo Toksvig. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) - • Wolfe. (Barker. Os.) • ferment in the Ukraine. Later, when the young man becomes " Sergey,...

Eighteen New Recordings: OF all the records which have been produced during the last two months, the set which claims most attention is undoubtedly that of Toscanini's_...

As the title . suggests, Loose End (Arthur Barker,.. 7s. 6d.) is the auto- biography of yet another misfit who imagines That his destiny lies in any place but the one he happens...

is a word of power ; to repeat it is to induce the mood which he finds in English village churches, quiet in the sun, in the lovely valley of the Dove, in contemplating the...

E. Reynolds . How much against the odds it was that John Galsworthy should sail; on the Torrens ' when Joseph Conkad was first mate, so beginning their friend- ship 1 It. 'is...

on the fringe of the Sahara, lived Mrs. Sheridan and her two children for eight years. Ali the mason slowly built her a house after her design. In time they ceased, to be...

Current Literature - nearly - four-fifths War - experiences, presents the War from the point of view of a British-born subject who fought on the German side. Col. Martin's...

By Paul Schebesta Dr. Sehebesta's books on the in- habitants of the Congo fall into a category about halfway between the academic works of anthropologists and the more lurid...

By George Edinger Mr. Edinger's " romantic biography " of Rupert of the Rhine (Hutchinson, 18s.) is a well-written, popular bio- graphy . of the better sort. Prince Rupert was...

Motoring FOR the novice in motoring, whose numbers, to judge by the letters I receive weekly from Spectator readers, are steadily in- creasing, it is perhaps a fortunate...

THE Stock Exchange has lost no time in reading the major and minor implications of the loosening of restriction schemes and the widespread recovery in commodity prices. If some...

Bankers on the Situation THERE .is, perhaps, no subject in which greater interest is taken at the present moment than the question whether a continuance of the present activity...

Ii is evident from the address of the Hon. Rupert Beckett to shareholders of the' Westminster Bank that' with much that was said by Mr. McKenna he. was in accord. This was...

THE FALL IN CONSOLS. WHILE the Stock Markets as a whole have maintained . a fairly cheerful tone during the past week, the outstanding feature has been quite a heavy and...

Br ZENO. 14 Prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked" Crossword...

The winner of Crossword No. 226 is Miss M. R. Shanks, 2 Ashbank Road, Logic, Dundee.