Little Entente is one of the factors that may some day determine peace or war in Europe. The fabric of the entente is definitely under test. Czechoslovakia is the most exposed...

Committee pursues its troubled labours in London. The Russian representative, instructed by a Government whose policy appears to be influenced in one direction by. the Foreign...

B UT for the memory of such precedents as the repulse of the Russians from the gates of Warsaw in 1920 the fate of Mnrlrid might be regarded as already sealed. And in fact...

in Brussels on Sunday proved to be a tribute more to the efficiency of M. van 'Iceland's administration than to the power of the Rexists. Not 250,000 Resists, as M. Degrelle had...

French Radical Party at Biarritz ended on Sunday without destroying the unity of the Popular Front. M. Roche, leader of the Right Wing Radicals, put forward a resolution...

controversy between Lord Nuffield and the Air Ministry is that it is to all appearance settled, thanks largely to the intervention of the Prime Minister and the Minister for the...

as to encourage the hope that the Royal Commission appointed to investi- gate the execution of the mandate will be in a position to leave for the scene of its labours some time...

to the credit structure of Alberta and the Dominions, and it now appears that he may have to default on payments of principal as well as interest. The Alberta Treasury has only...

which the Labour Party will receive the proposals that the Government have in mind for the extension of voluntary physical training. The speech of Sir Stafford Cripps this week...

to ban political uniforms in other coun- tries, notably in Denmark and Ireland, such a prohibition ought to present no insurmountable obstacle here. They are not disturbed by...

Recess to enlarge accommodation in the galleries for the general public. It is really an absurdity that with an electorate of over 30 million there has only been room for some...

Office, which ended at Geneva on Saturday, is the first which has ever adopted all of the draft conventions before it. The code established in the six agreements approved will,...

question in the new session of Parliament which opens on Tuesday is likely to arise out of the recent disturbances in the East End of London and elsewhere. While the great...

Jarrow, like that of the depressed areas in general, demands immediate redress ; whether the demand is most wisely presented by the 200 marchers who on November 3rd will present...

the polls next Tuesday, and unless every omen is fallacious it will elect Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt President for a further four years. Whatever lingering doubts there may be as...

a letter to The Times this week Sir Abe Bailey I T described the currency agreement between Great Britain, France and the United States as one which " gave Herr Hitler the shock...

I AM not surprised to see Sir Arthur Salter's broadcast of last Friday on Shipping in Time of War cited by authorities on road transport, who take it as text for an urgent...

By COUNT WLADIMIR D'ORMESSON PI reply to this article, by Dr. Rudolf Kircher, Editor of the " Frankfurter Zeitung," will . appear in next week's " Spectator."] I S Germany...

Christianity and Communism By DR. JOSEPH NEEDHAM (Fellow of Caius College. Cambridge) [Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, of Union Theological Seminary, New York, will write nail week on...

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HENRI ROLIN By SENATOR But the speech had not necessarily to be published, and it is by no means clear that it. was its author's intention that it should be. It is on Ministers...

By JOHN SHAND But this remarkable anniversary should be honoured not only by the bellringers but by us all. For it was in England that the art of bellringing was born. Only the...

BRERETON By GEOFFREY Q UIETLY, but with conviction, lettered France has celebrated this year the cinquantenaire of the Symbolist movement. It is fifty years, not since...

By DUNCAN WILSON A SEEMINGLY innocent paragraph appeared in the foreign .news sections of the daily Press a short time ago, first jauntily in the pennies, then fashionably un-...

By ROSE MACAULAY I HAVE just been listening to Mr. Howard Marshall's broadcast account of his spirited interrogations of the Archbishop of York as to " What the Church is For."...

La Kermess( Ihrroique is the rarest thing in the cinema, a really adult film. M. Jacques Feyder, who made one of the most memorable of all silent films, Then's( Raquin, has...

Prometheus Victus NoT rinctus, bound by an outraged god ; but vanquished, beaten by a couple of mortal women, the victim of a menage a trois! No vulture's beak preys upon the...

Watteau IT is unusual that a single exhibition in London should contain two unknown works of importance by an artist of the first rank. Messrs. Wildenstein are therefore to be...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondentenl KAsss man Farben horen ? Kann man Tone schen ? Diese beiden Fragen sind das Kernstllek einer Wissenschaft, die ihr Schopfer, Professor...

A Coastal Threat One of the best, one of the most characteristic bits of coast in Southern England is in double danger. It may be denied to the public, it may be made ugly. In...

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[To the Editor of THE Srr:cr.vr•on.J note that Sir Austen Chamberlain does not assert that Count Sforza's assertions (regarding Sir Austen's reception of the German draft of the...

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The " News of the Week," in The Spectator dated June 5th, contained a paragraph headed " The Land Question in Kenya." Perhaps you will...

author of the article " Politics and Happiness " in your issue of October 23rd which deals with Lord Horder's amusing observations on the task of the politician points out that...

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Finance IN considering the various causes responsible for the present general improvement in the economic position of the country, I doubt if there has been sufficient recog-...

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the Rev. Dr. Stevenson, Eildonside, Melrose, Roxburghshire.