of the NEWS OF THE WEEK Eighth Army in Egypt and Libya was not to take territory but to destroy the armed forces of the enemy. Though that is a correct a ccount of the...

The White Paper on the Reform of the Foreign Service, issued on Thursday, is as admirable in form as in substance, which is more than can be said of all official documents....

In some ways the most important sections of the reform proposals are those dealing with recruitment for the service and with stimu- lating exit from it in suitable cases....

The Ministry of Town and Country Planning Bill, which got its second reading on Tuesday, has the effect only of setting up machinery for national planning without defining the...

Among the many and various attacks that have been made on the public schools, probably none from a responsible quarter has been more bitter than that made in a report by a...

Aessrs. Lever Brothers have chosen the right moment for bringing out their constructive proposals on The Problem of Unemploy- ment, most lucidly set out in a pamphlet bearing...

It is long since the House of Commons has looked with a jealou eye on mcreasing national expenditure, or a Chancellor of the Ex- chequer has apologised for it. Today each...

The Lever scheme recognises fully that this is no merely national problem, and that it will be necessary to persuade other great industrial countries to take similar measures to...

N the speech he is apparently to deliver on Saturday Herr 10 Hitler may be expected to impress on his audience the part t ten years of Nazi rule have played in putting Germany...

N OT for the first time I seek the assistance of readers of this column in search of a quotation. My first memory of John Burns was of hearing him speak at an open-air meeting...

By STRATEGICUS But, of course, the capture of Tripoli and the ejection from Libya of all the Axis forces are not so much the end as a mere beginning. They are not even a perfect...

By QUINTIN HOGG, M.P. I T has so happened that the fortunes of war have led me for two years far away from the political scene at a time when I seemed to be in the middle of an...

enemy, or of a piecemeal reoccupation, as Russia advances from the Plans for this must take account either of the sudden collapse of the W HEN the occupied countries are freed...

By WILSON HARRIS J OHN BURNS died last Sunday. He had been politically dead, by his own choice, since 1914, when he resigned, together with the other " Honest John "—Morley—on...

By MASS OBSERVATION " I think there are two good things that have come out of this war—the changed attitude to Russia, and the Beveridge Report." By December 2nd, as many as...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE been reading this week a pamphlet by Mr. J. H. Simpson, Principal of the College of St. Mark and St. John, which throws an interesting sidelight upon...

" King Lear." At the St. James's Theatre. EVERY lover of the theatre, and of Shakespeare in particular, should take the opportunity during the next seven days of seeing this...

Nine Men." At the New Gallery and the Marble Arch Pavilion.- " You Were Never Lovelier." At the Gaumont.—"A-Haunting We Will Go." At the Plaza. " Arabian Nights." At the...

THE production of Verdi's The Force of Destiny by the B.B.C. last week was one symptom of a recent and welcome' change in the Corporation's operatic policy, which had tended to...

SIR, —I was most interested in Mr. Harold Nicolson's " Marginal Comment " in The Spectator of January 55th. My ideas have been pub- lished kr the Belgian Review " Message " of...

reply to Mr. Harold Nicolson's unfortunate article, it leaves much still to be said, that ought to be said, if it is really our intention to carry out our promises to our Allies...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—Will you allow me to express the views of an ordinary French citizen concerning the North-African situation? I- consider that the very simple issues...

Sur,—As writer of one of the letters to which Mr. Harold Nicolson refers may I publicly express appreciation of his outstanding "Marginal Comment" in your issue of January 22nd...

sm,—No one will question the personal bona fides of your correspondent, Rev. F. Barrie Flint, as a " Graduate " of the Intercollegiate University, but his argument is a specious...

Sitt,—" Janus' " denial that the Allies acted harshly and vindictively in maintaining the blockade against Germany after the Armistice in 1918 and his assertion that it is " not...

Six,—All who value justice and humanity must be grateful to you for printing the article entitled " The a B Prisoners " in your last • issue. It is almost incredible that such...

rare things about walnut trees, but says nothing about the latest idea of growing walnuts in double quick time on bushes. A great number of people wish to know whether such...

the echo of Lucretius, in one of General Smuts's phrases in his October speech. He spoke of America marching to the " flaming ramparts of the world." These are the " flevnmantia...

of January 22nd, criticising the treatment of the 18 B detainees, laid down a serious challenge to all sincere believers in democracy. The B detainees are being held in "...

Snt—In your issue of January 22nd you charge me with injuring our relations with the U.S.S.R. by criticising Sir James Grigg for banning lectures to the troops by various...

Mosx of the old tags concerned with prognostics of the weather—such as the ill-influence of StSwithin, or the multitude of wild berries, or a circle round the moon, or inland...

God and Evil. By C. E. M. Joad. (Faber. Ss. 6d.) THERE are twz themes in this book: the general problem of God and Evil and the personal development of Dr. Joad. Though it can...

The Industrial Future he Future of Industrial Man. A conservative approach. By Peter F. Drucker. (Heinemann los. 6d.) 1928 a body called the Liberal Industrial Enquiry (Sir...

Destroyer's War. By A. D. Divine. (John Murray. 6s.) THE wartime Navy, with its large proportion of temporary . officer and ratings, is less indifferent than the regular...

Reconstruction and Town and Country Planning. By Sir Gwilym Gibbon. (Architect and Building News. x5s.) No one knows more of the obstructions to town planning than Sir Gwilym...

Order and Chaos in the World of Atoms. By B. C. Saunders and R. E. D. Clark. The English Universities Press. 8s 6d.: IN these hard times it is no doubt natural that many who...

Envy My Simplicity. By Reyner Barton. (Chapman and Hall. 8s. 6d., Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper. By Donald Henderson. (Constable 8s. 6d.) Of Mingled Being. By L. 1. Shorter....

power under the Elizabethans has been told by many writers from Froude to Julian Corbett, Professor Taylor, Dr. Williamson and others who have traced and described the many...

deals with that part of French Indo-China which is predominantly of Anna- mese speech, i.e., Tongking 1 Annam proper, and Cochin-China, and the author, who has anthropological...

7s. 6d.) THE abbreviations in use before the present war were numerous and puzzling enough to exhaust the average memory, but they. have since multiplied to such vast extent...

The winner of Crossword No. 201 is Mrs. PEMBROKE, Longview, Hailsham Road, Heathfield, Sussex.

[A Book Token los one awned will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solutton of this week's crossword to be opened alter noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be...

the supply of text-books on American history which has met the recent demand. Here is a new, reasonably good, but not distinguished addition to the list. Mr. Ecclestone writes...

By CUSTOS AGAINST the background of good war news markets are surprisingly subdued. Most brokers are handling a fair volume of orders, but there is no runaway rise in prices,...