ty T HE statement issued by the Polish Government on Wednesday regarding that Government's relations with Russia gave little indication that the endeavours of Mr. Churchill and...

Clearly the Swedish Government has an overwhelming majority of Swedish opinion behind it in making a vigorous protest against the German violation of Sweden's sovereignty in her...

M UCH is happening in India in many fields. The Supreme Court's verdict that the rule under which Mr. Gandhi and some thousands of Congress supporters are being detained was...

Finland has long ago regretted the step taken by her Government when it sought revenge on Russia by an armed alliance with Germany. But it was easier to get into the Nazi coil...

Sir William Jowitt, the Minister without Portfolio, was pressed hard in the House of Commons last week to explain what were his functions in regard to post-war reconstruction,...

A resolution was passed at the annual conference of the National Union of Women Teachers urging the Government, local education authorities, magistrates and parents to...

T HE United States Board of Economic Warfare has performed a most valuable and necessary service in publishing statistics revealing the scale of German looting in Europe in the...

OCCUPIED part of the week-end with reading Lord Vansittart's I Lessons of My Life, some aspects of which Mr. Harold Nicolson discussed in The Spectator last week. Lord...

By STRATEGICUS FTER some three years of chastening experience in the last A war, Foch came to describe the outlook as "Long, dur, sir." Such a description might well be...

By OSCAR HOBSON What are these general ideas? Well, one idea is that it ought to be as simple a matter for one country to make a payment to another country (or the citizen of...

By THERESA CAHAN U NDER the pressure of war conditions, developments are taking place in the four British West African colonies which are likely to have an important bearing on...

By JAMES LANG How well do these stations lend themselves to adaptation? I have in mind a type of school rather different in its basic organisation from anything we have had so...

By HAROLD NICOLSON HE British public during the last week have had the opportunity to examine and compare the memoranda exchanged between General de Gaulle in London and...

" La Boheme." At the New Theatre. FOR those who heard Melba in the part the music of Mimi is irrevocably associated with the tones of her voice, sweeter than any flute, if...

" Le Fin Du Jour." At Studio One. "Tales of Manhattan." At the Regal.--" The Light of Heart." At the Tivoli. THE absurdity of attempting either to present successfully or to...

THE THEATRE Ma. PRIESTLEY'S new play comes to London after a successful pro- vincial tour under the auspices of C.E.M.A. and the People's Enter- tainment Society, Ltd. It is a...

SIR,— Captain Quintin Hogg's tribute to the Eightn Army supplies a just and timely reminder that this outstanding " instrument of war," which General Montgomery has welded and...

Snt,—Mr. Swinnerton has an odd formula for understanding an artist's work. He tells us to strip Henry James's characters. But why should we? And of what shall we strip them? Of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR S12,—India, like the rest of the 'world, is looking today for leadership. For many years past the Government has been too busy "appeasing " one party or...

SIR,—It is important in discussing the Post-War Structure that we should not confuse the issues. May I therefore comment on the article under this title in your last issue? You...

SIR,—In your issue of April 16th Col. Walter Elliot raises an interesting question for research. Unfortunately, some at least of his evidence seems faulty. For instance, the...

Sul,—I would refer Mr. Kerr (and any of your readers who are likely to be misled by Mr. Kerr's statement about the views of the non-Roman Indian Church and negotiation) to your...

SIR,—Mr. Connely, in his comment upon some of the obvious differences between our English and that of the U.S.A., gives a simplified explanation of origins that is certainly not...

Six,—Your very interesting article in your issue of April 16th on " Our Future Queen " may give an unintentional impression to readers in the Empire that their interests are...

The Angry Summer. By Idris Davies. (Faber. 6s.) Always Adam. By Sean Jennett. (Faber. 6s.) Experience of England. By John Atkins. (Favil Press. Is.) Selected Poems. By John...

England's Religious Genius Bunyan Calling. By M. P. Willcocks. (Allen and Unwin. us. 6d.) A TINKER out of Bedford "—so began Kipling's verses on John 5unyan in the last war,...

Head. sos. 6d.) Subject India. By H. N. Brailsford. (Victor Gollancz. 6s.) India Arms for Victory. By Geoffrey Tyson, C.I.E. (Kitabistan, Allahabad. 7s. 6d.) MISS MITCHELL'S...

Frossia. By E. M. Almedingen. (The Bodley Head. 9s. 6d.) Send Me Down. By Henry Steig. (Jarrolds. 9s. 6c1.) I HAVE read Frossia slowly, and every night, closing the book, and...

What Happened in History. By V. Gordon Childe. (Pelican. 9d.) PROFESSOR CHILDE switches most of the limelight from individual men and nations with their often ephemeral...

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct 'elution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, m, r , nth. Envelopes should be...

The winner of Crossword No. 214 is Miss D. M. OATES, Street, Marlborough, Wilts. 5 2 High

Arthur Mee's Oxfordshire. (Hodder and Stoughton. los. 6d.) THE subject and illustrations make this an attractive book, and it is perhaps needlessly unkind to compare it with the...

tribute to his favourit month was more graciously justified? When proud-pied April dressed in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in everything. The hedgerows are pied...