broad question of the respective rights of Jew's and Arabs in Palestine, there must be unanimity on one point, that the Mandatory Power will be abdicating its function if it...

Cabinet was, of course, inevitable. The only comment called 14 is Mr. Baldwin's, that " you have acted as I should have done in your place "—an observation which must obviously...

and by next Friday his Ministry will be ready to take office, probably with M. Delbos as Foreign Minister. The issues before M. Blum become clearer, and this is perhaps the...

Bill should have put an end to any controvergy . Over the Government's educational policy. So far it has "been possible for the Government's supporters to believe sincerely that...

Schusch- nigg has been followed immediately by a revival of Nazi activity in Austria. The attack on Schloss Waxen- berg, Prince Starhemberg's castle in Upper Austria, where he...

Fascist party, in the Belgian. elections has surprised everyone: At the last election the party did not exist ; now it has won twenty-one seats, though most people thought it...

from the governorship of New Zealand last year, Lord Bledisloe sounded an alarm as to the attitude of the world towards the continuing emptiness of the Dominions. The Empire...

authoritative sources a little more of the Italian plans for Ethiopia's future. On Sunday, in Addis Ababa, Marshal Graziani announced that the 500,000 soldiers stationed in...

its new Unemployment Assistance Regulations because of the indignation they aroused. A year ago Mr. Ramsay MacDonald said that "good progress was being made" in framing new...

Mr. Anthony Eden. Day after day he has to answer a series of questions on issues of the utmost delicacy, such as the precise status of the British Legation in Addis Ababa, or...

on Monday is a ease ill point. Sir Philip Sassoon, who is in charge of it. has a deservedly high reputation as an administrator. but in spite of the fact that he has been...

were a refreshing contrast to the muddle and con- fusion of the Air Navigation Bill. Mr. Stanley needed no outside aid. From start to finish he exhibited a smooth competence...

astonishing exhibition of weakness in capitulating before the threats and propaganda of the powerful interests opposed to the Coal Mines Bill. It is not often that a Government...

at New York will be hailed with hardly less enthusiasm than attended her departure from Southampton. It need not be expected that she will break records on her first voyage. A...

is to be hoped that the Prime Minister will use the opportunity of the minor 'reconstruction that will take place (hiring the 'Whitsun Recess to strengthen the debating side of...

B ETWEEN now. and the meeting of the League of Nations Council on June 16th, a period of little more than a fortnight, decisions whose gravity can hardly be exaggerated will...

T HE official reply which the Government of Northern Ireland has made to the report of a commission appointed by the National Council for Civil Liberties, to enquire into the...

N OW that Mr. J. H. Thomas is out of the' Cabinet his reputation, a little paradoxically perhaps, will stand higher. For more people will look past the foreground, to the days...

By PROFESSOR GUGLIELMO FERRERO [Chang tä the non-arrival of the article which was to hare been contributed t6 this series by 31. Pierre Cot we publish in its place a discussion...

This is the Oh of a series of articles which ..11r. Yeats-Brown has been specially commissioned by " The Spectator" to write on contemporary India. The sixth, which will appear...

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By • ROSE MACAULAY I T must be infinitely charming to be a Film Censor. To be paid by an industry for eliminating such parts of its productions as did not take one's fancy-- how...

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"The Robber Symphony." At the Palace Theatre—" Th2 Emperor's Candlesticks." At the Curzon—" The Littlest Rebel." At the New Gallery HEIFIR FRIEDRICH FEUER'S The Robber Symphony...

"The Seagull." By Anton Chehov. At the New Theatre Tins production offers the very rare experience of seeing united a greatplay, a great producer, and a cast in which the great...

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A Preserver's Suggestion All countrymen ought to thank the Council fur the Preser- vation of Rural England for the sum of successful work, of which some record was given at the...

Sot, —Your Parliamentary Correspondent puts his finger on the governing factor in the present drive towards rearmament IvIten he says " the electors are badly frightened " ; but...

[To Me Editor of THE SPEIVATOR.1 Sin, —Is not your admirable journal taking up a rather unnecessarily self-righteous attitude as regards the pm- noancements of ecclesiastical...

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SIR,--I entirely agree with Mr. Alec Craig that any ideal legislation on the subject of obscenity must include a definition and should expressly exempt from criminal liability...

SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. I. Nakhleh, seeks to justify the Arab riots in Palestine on the ground that the Arabs are " struggling for their existence." By whatever criterion...

in your issue of May 22nd front Mr. Alec Craig, wherein mention is made of the Cockburn Judgement of 1868," and further on of Lord Cockburn," n:ay I point out that Lord Cockburn...

the old - Danish •name once more in use—the author, Mr. J. Joesten; - omits to pbint out one vital thing, ri that the Germans in these parts are to' a great extent...

THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Australian Official Historian's comments on matters of historical fact are, of course, unexceptionable ; and his opinion that "personal intervention by...

SPECTATOIL Slu r —Considering what has happened in Abyssinia, the public of many countries. must now surely wish that time British Government had maintained time firm attitude...

SIR,—In your leading article entitled" The Palestine Turmoil" you state first that Balfour's system has not worked satis- factorily because •success means the mixture of two...

SIR,—I am afraid that I can't follow 'the' Rev: Mi. 1Valton. It seems that what I wrote recently about the Ferthent in Japan" - was all wrong, because it does not correspond...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,----With economic sanctions now in full force it is sur- prising that we should receive Italian operatic conductors and singers. At the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of May 22nd you state in your notes of "The Week in Parliament" that " it would be a real stroke of statesmanship if Mr....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] . SIR,—Without entering into any discussion of the accuracy or inaccuracy of incidents and characters .represented in Tudor Rose, I venture to...

am prepared to clear rats froth any building Or arta of a reasonable size on the principle 'ol" No cure no pay." A material tlutt;is abablutely 'free from poison or any kind Of...

suggest to London editors that it ivriuld be a good idea for them to buy an atlas to which their staff writers could refer when mentioning places in Canada ? Particularly, this...

By MAURICE HEALY " Tii . F.ap is a curious delusion abroad that authors are not good company : 'The best of them is in their books,' and so forth. This has certainly not been...

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Somi: of us believe that the African native cultivates his gardens in the light of some heaven-sent instinct which it would be a pity to question ; others that he is bound so...

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This is chatty travel book (Allen and Unwin (Is.) about Czechoslovakia, which the author has visited more than twenty times. Mr. Druce does not assume too. miteli know- ledge in...

more instructive in the history of the arts than- those rare cases of a style springing up in different places mut at different times, containing essentially the same features...

By Rupert .Gunnis _ This is a comprehensive official guide-book (Methuen, 8s. Od.) to the antiquities of Cyprus - from the Bronze Age to the days of the Osmanli. "The rosy...

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IT is little less than astonishing that in 1936 Scotland should_ be the favourite and principal motor touring ground of Great Britain. There are comparatively few roads. one has...

and Carl Hjahnar Borgstrom. (Routledge. 15s.) Tim Island of Barra is about twelve miles long and six miles broad. Accompanied by its satellite islands, Vatersay ! Sand. ray,...

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