siege of the Alcazar and the capture of Toledo by the insurgents has provided the most dramatic episode of the Spanish Civil War, and provoked, incidentally, a congratulatory...

bring about a pacifica- tion of Palestine by other means has had its natural sequel in the issue of an Order in Council providing for the promulgation of martial law. By a wise...

of the dangerous anti-Japanese incidents of the previous ten days, the past week has rapidly brought to a head the tension which these incidents created in Sino-Japanese...

of the Socialists at the Swedish General Election has been followed by the formation of a coalition (or, as we should say, national) government. Hr. Hannson, the Socialist...

the League High Commissioner at Danzig since 1933, will succeed M. Azcarate as one of the Under-Secretaries of the League would, in ordinary circumstances, have been received...

the general Assenibly debate at Geneva have been unexciting and colourless. No attempt has been made to come to grips with the question of the reform of the League ; and the...

for which Zinoviev, Kamenev and fourteen others paid the supreme penalty in Moscow just over a month ago, has vanished from the headlines of the Soviet and the world Press as...

.Democratic paper, the Post Dispatch of St. Louis, has joined the equally Demo- cratic Baltimore Sun in withdrawing support from Mr. Roosevelt is significant. The reason given...

daily pro- grammes the Daily Service holds a firmly established place. It appeals particularly to inmates of 'hospitals and invalids elsewhere, but there are many others who...

- International Congress on Cancer of a prize of 1850, and (what is more important) 50 milligrammes of radium, to Professors Kennaway and Cook, of the Royale Cancer Hospital in...

takes place too late for comment here this week. Despite the absence of the Conservative leader, Mr. Baldwin, the conference will be of unquestioned importance in demonstrating...

The Spectator should go to press an hour or two before the time when the winning machine in the air race to South Africa is expected to reach Johannesburg, congratulations to...

Metropolitan Gas Company's new tariff raises an important question of principle. If a certain class of consumer can only be supplied at a loss is it equitable that the loss...

I T is not often that the acts of Governments, I especially when they act in concert, can be hailed as wholly good. But that description can almost be applied to the currency...

T HE heading of the leading article in The Spectator a year ago, on the . speech of the British Foreign Secretary to the League of Nations Assembly, was " Britain'S Lead to the...

S IR JOHN SIMON does not always sense the popular mind with great accuracy, but his diagnosis of popular opinion on the Popular Front seems to me perfectly sound. The idea has...

A LONG Thames-side the personality of Ernest Bevin, the dockers' leader, is supreme. He does not court popularity, and he seldom speaks at meetings in Dockland : perhaps because...

By DR. ERNEST BARKER [The second article in this series, on " The Christian Tradition," by the Very Rev. W . R. Inge, will appear next week. The Dean of St. Paul's is...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The first conclusion to which that reflection points is that mass executions and massacres in the present civil war cannot serve as a ground of...

By PROFESSOR C. M. YONGE T HE prospects for the East Anglian herring fishery now beginning are excellent, according to the Ministry of Fisheries. This statement is based on...

WHEN went a voyage on the Volga from Novgorod to .Astrack.han in 1920 I had a very good opportunity . of seeing medical conditions at their worst.. It .was the time of the...

By JAMES CURTIS T HE shocking proposal to close the Caledonian Market and erect blocks of flats in its place is being bitterly received in all the poorer quarters of London. It...

Wiimm sailor used to lodge, a woman complaining Her fingers were all thumbs, Packed the meagre chattel or two he had left behind, Spindrift brittle and whisperless sea-shell ;...

By E. L. WOODWARD T HE Perseids have come and gone ; in two or three weeks' time the Orionids will glow into lire. Halley's comet has made a third of its course from our sight...

Commonwealth and Foreign [To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The habitues of Geneva seem agreed that the seven- teenth has, so far, been the most depressing of all...

" Maria Bashkirtseff." At Studio One— My Man Godfrey." At the Leicester Square Theatre IT is little more than fifty years since Maria Bashkirtseff died ; if her lungs had not...

blood is discreetly shed off-stage, and the thunder has been so muted by the restrained realism of Mr. Basil Dean's production that only an occasional rumble is audible. The...

FOR a fortnight, and a fortnight only, Sir John Martin Harvey is presenting the Gilbert Murray–Max Reinhardt version of Oedipni Rex at Covent Garden. He gave it first as long...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] DAs Bediirfnis nach grossem and berauschendem Theater 1st in Deutschland rapide gewaehsen. Was dent Volke in den Schauspielhausern geboten...

-which the only music to be heard in London has been at the Promenade Concerts —a large enough exception—the autumn season is upon , us like an army with banners. Musical...

The Apple of the Moment We enjoy things in their season, and at present I am ready to maintain that no apple on the list is better than St. Everard. One must, of course, bow to...

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weakness of our prison system when he says that we have not as a nation made up our minds what prison is for, whether it is for vindictive punishment or for cure. The...

SPECTATOR.] would like to suggest, what has often been urged before, that statistics give an inadequate picture of national health. Few people who have any knowledge of Germany...

in the excellent letter from Mr. W. Brend in your issue of September 25th, which gave figures showing that the British social and hygiene administration compares very favourably...

Sta,--I should _like to point out a deduction to be made from the case cited by Mr. Mead in your issue of September 18th, not necessary for his point. It was there laid down, in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The claim of the English Free Churches, made by the Moderator of their Federal Council, to an official share in the celebration of events...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Reading Lord Allen of Hurtwood's admirable article on the significance of Nuremberg, one is at first struck with the importance of his...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, - -Mr. W.: H. Worsnop is unjust to the Liquor Control Board and the . Carlisle Scheme, in his criticism of their work. Four points at...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Spectator's " News of the Week " remark that Communism is probably gaining ground in this country. The article entitled The Price of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your note on this subject seems to me very reasonable but there is one element in the matter which seams deserving of notice, viz., the...

[To the Editor 'of THE SPECTATOR.] • SIR,--Some months ago, believing as so many of your recent correspondents have apparently also believed, that your journal would present a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—The solution of this problem will require much hard thinking; but' it is doubtful if the suggestions put forward in the article in last...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I would like to use your columns to protest against the abominable practice in cinemas of associating Royalty with militarism. We were...

By E. H. CARR Ix one of his early chapters, Count Sforza derides " books which, in scientific manner, describe and define the English, the French and the Italians," and...

Masterpieces of Japanese Poetry Ancient and Modern. Translated and annotated by Miyamori Asataro. 2 Vols. (Tokyo : Maruzon.) TUE publication of these two handsome volumes,...

Is Christianity Unique ? By Nicol Msenicol, D.Litt. (S.C.M. Gs.) What is the Faith ? By Nathaniel Mieklem. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) Tax day is fortunately long past when...

By W. E. Williams and Professor A. E. Heath. (Methuen. 5s.) Adult Education Learn and Live : the Consumer's View of Adult Education. By W. E. Williams and Professor A. E....

Halo. Ns. 6d.) THE editor of an important English newspaper remarked in the letter recalling his special correspondent from Abyssinia, "from the very first this has proved a...

Tins, it may be supposed, is a pot-boiler, or a work of piety ; it is certainly 'not history. That - need not prevent it from being a good book ; after all the plays of...

poetry and prose ' of Mr, de la Mare as belonging to t.` the literature of escape," a vague term which, in these days, is meant to convey a kind of moral reproof, as if the...

TIMM.: was nothing very diitinctive about. it, this Quaker household of the 'nineties, except in so far. as every family differs in quality from every other. But Quaker...

Laughing Gas. By P: G. WodehoRse. (Jenkins. '78. I wisp I knew : what relation the elaborately pictorial dust- wrappers On Mr. Wodehouse's novels are supposed to hgive to the...

Death of a Man. By Kay Boyle. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) And Then You Wish. By John van pruten. . (Michael Joseph, ss. Od ) Midnight. By . Julian Green. Translated by Vyvyan...

Finance POLITICAL influences on the _ Stock Markets . and the general financial situation here have given .place during the past week to those of an economic Character; the...

any means suggest that the disturbance occasioned - by the - devaluation of the franc is a 'matter which is likely. to charige the whole course of investment tendencies, its...

of Crossword No.' 209 is Mrs. M. Young, White Lodge, Somerville Road, Sutton Coldfield.

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