T HE new 'Italian Cabinet formed by Marshal Badoglio made an historic decision at its first meeting, when it resolved to dissolve the Fascist Party and to repeal the law of...

sets a new standard for the weight of our air-attack. Not only did Saturday night's raid on Hamburg and Sunday night's on Essen break all records by each discharging over 2,000...

Mr. Henry Wallace, Vice-President of the United States, is often said to be "no politician." But he is a remarkable orator, and the occasional speeches that he has delivered...

The sudden downfall of Mussolini will cause heart-searchings among all the pro-Axis governments of the Balkan or Danubian States, but Bulgaria has special reason to mend her...

Mr. Churchill in different periods of his career has been associated now with the Liberal Party, now with the Conservatives, but it is probably true to say that he is less of a...

The Report of Sir Cyril Norwood's Committee on the curricula and examinations in secondary schools has been hailed on all hands as a document of first-class importance. We print...

It is widely agreed now, that one of the fatal mistakes made in 1919 was the failure to take any effective steps for the prosecution and punishment of war criminals. It is...

At the annual meeting of the National Trust last week attention was drawn to the remarkable growth in its holdings since the out- break of the present war. Since the beginning...

U NDER two-fold pressure—military pressure from without and despair within—the Fascist edifice in Italy has cracked and collapsed. The decisive factor has been the military...

T HE White Paper issued under Mr. Butler's auspices sent me back to the reports of the mid-nineteenth century commissions on education, and, particularly, to the report of the...

By STRATEGICUS It is probable that it is a complex of all these reasons, coming at the end of the liquidation of the whole of Italy's African Empire and the incidental...

By KENNETH LINDSAY, M.P. I T is good that this bold and balanced document has followed so quickly on the White Paper, which was inevitably concerned for the most part with the...

By HAMILTON KERR, M.P. When we remember that Germany possesses great quantities of iron and coal—the raw materials of modern war—many thousands of well-equipped factories, and...

By CANON H. C. ROBINS T HAVE been asked to write a balanced article on the subject of 1 war-time morals. Obviously, however, it is not only a war- time problem. It was there...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE enemy wireless, until Monday morning, throbbed with indignation at the bombing of Rome. The invective with which we ourselves (in an admirable feature...

OPERA The Barber no doubt owes its survival from among other of Rossini's comedies which are not musically inferior to it, in part to the fact that it is based upon a...

MISS ENID BAGNOLD has constructed out of her novel a very good piece of theatre. It is perhaps a little slow in starting, for the first two scenes might have been made more...

4 , Mission to Moscow." At the Warner and. Regal. IF for no other reasons, many people will go to see this film in order to satisfy their curiosity as to how convincingly the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sm,—A zealous elector, contemplating the list of candidates who solicit his vote, may react in one of three different ways. He may regard all the...

snt,—Few will quarrel with the very sane and realistic comments in your July 16th issue on the resolution passed by the Liberal Confer- ence banning any participation in a...

issue is wrong. Belief in Christian doctrine, despite the lack of it on our school curriculums, is a widespread social bond. Mr. Kiely bases his observa- tion on the assertion...

much at variance with the facts already published in The Spectator under the signatures of Mr. Leonard Stein and Mr. Robert Bernays, M.P. (both Liberals), in The Spectator of...

on this subject contains statements and suggestions of which many of your readers will strongly disapprove. Referring to the alleged need for the strengthening of the ethical...

Sut,—In my letter in your issue of July 23rd there is a transposition. Line six should read: "In the latter there has been an improvement in the past thirty years, among the...

have read Mrs. E. H. Paul's letter in your last issue with some interest and very considtrable astonishment. Mrs. Paul appears to consider as " desirable " parents only those...

Sta,—I am just a nobody, and in 1939 I was one of those thousands of nobodies who (without thought of patriotism or any of the high-sounding terms used to describe it) joined...

StR,—Mr. F. J. Young, in his interesting article on War-Time Music, says that means must be found of adjusting rivalries between amateur and professional musicians. Such...

SIR, —Is it enough that Mr. Dalton for the Board of Trade has asked Mr. Rank, the flour miller, not to extend his control still further over the British film industry without...

SIR, —My attention has been drawn to Mr. Robert Ward's letter in your issue of July 23rd. The pre-war establishment of our N.S.P.C.Q. Inspectorate numbered 272; it was (and is)...

Franco Spain Tins is another of those books by American journalists which have done so much to enlighten us upon the kind of life that goes on in Fascist . countries. Mr....

Men Who Make the Future. By Bruce Bliven. (Pilot Press. 8s. 6d.) THIS book, by an American author, will seem very strange to British readers. The information with which it is...

AT first sight, the title of this book seems a mere exploitation of the fact that Professor Johnson was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the birthplace of Sinclair Lewis, and...

Harriet Martineau. By John Cranston Nevill. (Frederick Muller. 5s.) expressed his views in print with considerable acerbity, much as her brother-in-law, Dr. Greenhow, equally...

AT a time when verse is flourishing, at any rate so far as quantity is concerned, while imaginative prose languishes, it is no surprise to find that in the latest number of New...

Tins is—intentionally and healthily—a, very disturbing book. It is the record of the chief political illusions of Great Britain, France and the United States since 1918. The...

Caught. By Henry Green. (The Hogarth Press. 8s. 6d.) The Emperor's Snuff-Box. By John Dickson Carr. (Hamish Hamilton. 8s.) The Man Miss Susie Loved. By Augusta Tucker....

winner of Crossword No. 227 is P. Moms, 48, Church Way, Whetstone, N. zo.

guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, August ioth. Envelopes should be received...

THE celebration of the centenary of Rothamsted, oldest and best of agricultural research stations, was to have been a great affair. War made such a prospect impossible ; and the...

journalist who joined General MacArthur's staff on America's entry into the war and who was the last man to leave Bataan. He has written a vivid and moving story of the defence...