T HE fall of Koritza, heavy air attacks on three English cities—Birmingham, Bristol and Southampton—and a sharp drop in the figure of British shipping losses after some...

This country has no reason to be disturbed by the adhesion to the Three-Power Pact of Hungary, Slovakia and Rumania, and their submission to the blessings of Hitler's " New...

An article on a later page on the situation in India, by an Indian writer whose sympathies with the Indian National Con- gress are tempered by a sober realism, affords so much...

The appointment of Admiral W. D. Leahy, at sent Governor of Porto Rico, as American Ambassador to Vichy, i s evidence of President Roosevelt's belief that some effective...

Both Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador in Washington, who has just returned to America, and Sir Walter Citrine, who has been speaking to the American Federation of Labour,...

Mr. Bevin explained a scheme for the training of Indian labour in Britain to a conference of trade union representatives at Cardiff last Saturday. -He has obtained permission to...

Although the Government is confident that the enemy threat to our shipping will be dealt with, none the less the calls of the war upon cargo-space are increasing, and it would...

So far as it goes, Mr. Morrison's statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday regarding the release of interned enemy aliens is satisfactory. Men between 18 and so who do not...

constructive criticism, urging more speedy and drastic action on the Home Front. This is a healthy warning and does credit to Parlia- ment. What changes in policy are we now to...

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The debate on the Address was moved by a Squadron-Leader, Mr. Grant Ferris, and seconded by a Socialist Mayor of Poplar, Mr. Charles...

day, and it was not a good day for the Government. Mr. Shinwell made a cogent and careful analysis of the whole problem. He deplored the recent optimistic speeches of Mr....

too soon to estimate the general feeling of the House. But there will be more days given to general debate, and criticism of various Ministers and departments will no doubt show...

In regard to the news which has been allowed to be printed recently about air raids on certain towns in this country we ought to be told whether it is the enemy or the people of...

Sir Walter Citrine, addressing the American Federation of Labour at New Orleans this week, and Mr. William Green, president of that body, found themselves at one in urging the...

The latest returns show that there were 1,012 deaths from road accidents in the month of October, as compared with 920 in October last year, in spite of the fact that there are...

PARTY POLITICS 1 N a letter published in The Spectator last week Canon Roger Lloyd closed a correspondence which was started by his own article, " Back to Party Politics? " The...

altogether bad. It has, in fact, its good points. It proves incontrovertibly that Italy has no aggressive intentions against Greece."— Rome Radio, November 23rd. Quite...

recon- struction plans does not mean that he is thinking equally little about them. Very much the contrary, I believe. The field is a new one for him—or, indeed, for anyone...

from association with his brother, Lord Northcliffe, or lost it through being overshadowed by him. Northcliffe was un- questionably a great journalist. Rothermere was not, and...

one morning this week was on forty-eight hours' leave. He was stationed at Arundel and his home is at Scarborough. He could naturally not afford the rail fare, and was depending...

any authority. It is only so far as they are at the moment assuming a semi-political importance—owing to a threatened cut in the supply—that I feel called on to take cognisance...

castigat- ing one or other of the many offences of Janus, brings matters to a head by asking regarding that individual, " He is not by any chance a member of the Roman Church? "...

Y OU might say of Lord Craigavon and Ulster l'etat c'est moi, in the sense not that the late Prime Minister was a dicta- tor, but that no more typically characteristic...

a fit moment to recall Charles Dickens' toast " Gentlemen, I give you America and England, and may there never be any- thing between us but the Atlantic." But is it? Had the...

By STRATEGICUS Places may play a great part in the moral influence they exert in a war. They may indeed possess a more valuable military role. But at long last they matter...

By T. A. RANIAN* T HERE are those in India and outside, Indian and British, J. agitators as well as civil servants, who, for reasons of their own, work to prevent a settlement...

By H. A. SCHLOSSMANN A GOOD deal has been written of late from outside about conditions in internment camps in this country, and perhaps there is room for some observations from...

By OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT A PART from the problem of shelters, works-dormitories and the tube railways, there are many thousands of houses all over the country that are...

By GRAHAM GREENE T HERE are legendary figures in this war of whom most of us know nothing. Secretly, week by week, they fight against the evil things: against Vultz, the mad...

of the earth's total surface ; the United States has an estimated reserve of 385 billion cubic feet of soft timber, but is cutting four times as fast as she grows ; Canada has...

But where? For a century, in some cases for two centuries, rural authorities have preserved them assiduously. It would be un- fortunate if these historical, and in many cases...

Preserving the Countryside It is pleasant but surprising news to learn that the Commons, Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society has now been in existence for...

" Our Town." At the London Pavilion. Tuts film is pure both in its interest and exek.ution. It is also completely unorthodox in technique ; and it contains no stars. As a...

organisation of English forestry, among them State-ownership of forests. Again the facts are interesting. In England the total forest area represents only 5.6 per cent. of the...

[In view of the paper shortage it is essential that letters on these pages should be brief. We are anxious not to reduce the number of letters, but unless they are shorter they...

StR,—Lady Violet Bonham Carter's admirable article in your issue of November 8th, on the needs of Air Raid Wardens, will be welcomed by all who have worked with the A.R.P....

Sut,—I read a great deal in the papers about the propriety or impro- priety of bombing Rome. What I have not seen mentioned among the reasons against bombing Rome is the fact...

should have so many angry critics when he suggests that Rome might be spared our bombs as much as possible. In a war to maintain the values of western civilisation it is...

Lord David Cecil wrote of the works of the first Lord Halifax that "they are almost the only English writings on politics equally worth reading for their thought and their...

Chamberlain Mr. Wilson Harris fails to be equally fair to the Opposition when he says that it " did everything it could to thwart " a rearmament policy during " the vital years...

a notable contribution to The Spectator. The time is not yet for further discussion of matters which are still the subject of controversy. I write only to comment on some...

bombing of Rome by reason of its various antiquities, I feel that I must disagree with him. Who cares whether the Forum or the Colosseum is razed to the ground. At least 9c per...

of the bulk of the British and American peoples about the foreign policy of Mr. Chamberlain. No doubt his strenuous efforts at Munich gained Great Britain a year to rearm. Yet,...

Stn,—I have never entered into controversy, and do not intend to begin now with a bad-tempered reviewer. Yet it is only fair, I think, to be allowed to say that Mr. Green...

Sta,—I was very interested in Mr. Thomson's letter in your issue of November r5th, in which he deplored the apparent ban that has been placed on pacifist preachers by the B.B.C....

Snt,—I seem to recognise m Mr. Butt's letter the strange distaste felt by some scholars for any agreeable and popular legend, yet contem- porary or nearly contemporary...

Snt,—The correspondence concerning the activities of British rail- ways over the past three months has at least opened up this thorny subject even if the letters so far...

SIR, —We see you are discussing " Wasteful Milk Rounds." The Government has announced it is carefully examining the recommen- dations of the Committee on the Cost of Milk...

THE theme of this most fascinating book is known far and wide in general. 'It has been before a specialised public arjd before the French for several years. It is the English...

Great Man Let There Be Sculpture. By Jacob Epstein. (Michael Joseph. 18s.) EPSTEIN'S first thirty pages tell an interesting story of his East Side up-bringing (his parents...

The Spanish Dilemma. By E. Allison Peers. (Methuen. 59.) THE Englishman's great mistake in relation to Spain, says Pro- fessor Allison Peers in his preface, is in assuming that...

They Wanted War is a very ambiguous title. Under the general motto, "They wanted war : they shall have it," Hitler and his paladins issued a series of New Year's proclamations...

PERHAPS it is right to respect the average biography more than the average novel. The average man cannot cheat so easily when he writes about himself. His falsities and evasions...

WE need not dissent from Professor Sisson's conclusion that "the authority of Walton's Life of Hooker, as a record of facts, may now be taken to be gravely undermined in respect...

HERE we have five novels—four of them by women—having this in common, that they are uniformly readable if you are short of reading matter, but on the other hand need by no means...

By CUSTOS THE City has been so obsessed by the internal problems of financing the war that Lord Lothian's plain words to the United States on the much more vital external...

ordering " The Spectator " regularly, since newsagents can no longer be supplied on sale-or-return terms.

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND ANNUAL GENERAL COURT OF PROPRIETORS THE Annual General Court of Proprietors of the Royal Bank of Scotland was held at Edinburgh on November 27th, His...

GRATIFYING INCREASE IN PROFIT THE fourth annual general meeting of Walter Spencer and C Limited, was held on November 27th, at the Royal Victoria Station Hotel, Sheffield. Mr....

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