pROM the military point of view the death of General Metaxas, the Greek Prime Minister, is an unqualified mis- fortune, for though Greek resistance rests on unbroken national...

Tobruk, whether General Wavell would decide to push on to Benghazi is already answered. He has pushed on. Derna has been reached and invested, and so has the important centre of...

A wise suggestion regarding the future of Abyssinia is made by Miss Margery Perham in the correspondence columns of The Times. The progress of the war in Eritrea and within...

The ceremony at a Czecho-Slovak military camp in England on Monday, when Dr. Benes reviewed the troops in company with General Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister and...

It is possible that Germany has now the kind of Rumania that she desires. The desperate revolt of the Iron Guard— the organisation which deposed King Carol, brought General...

Developments at Vichy would be worth watching closely watching shed any light on them. But the drama, for drama there undoubtedly is, is in the main being played with the...

General Sir Archibald Wave11, Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East, has been visiting Athens to confer with the Greek commanders. In certain respects the war in the Eastern...

In a. reply to President Roosevelt and Mr. Cordell Hull Mr. Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, has taken up the same uncompromising attitude as before, affirming that the...

of national importance. Mr. Aneurin Bevan stated the only case against it and he stated it well. He said that it was inexpedient, that it betrayed lack of confidence in the...

of Mr. Boothby and the suppression of the Daily Worker. For both the:e debates a large house was present and Mr. Willkie looked intently down from the Gallery to hear something...

the r922 Committee of the Conservative party, and Sir Percy Harris for the Liberals defended the Government on the general plea that the Daily Worker was exploiting the war and,...

of Works and Buildings has appointed a . special committee under a distinguished Judge to enquire into the whole problem of land. It was the same gentleman, Mr. Justice Uthwatt,...

The report of the committee which, under Mr. Geoffrey hakespeare's chairmanship, has been enquiring into the work- ng of the Government's evacuation scheme, is an interesting nd...

Mr. Ede, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, s been making a tour of northern towns, in which he has en explaining not only what has already been done by his...

It was much less important that Lord Halifax should make, good first impression on President Roosevelt or Mr. Cordell ull than that he shouid make a good first impression on the...

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: The House of Commons has now started on the considerable task of passing the War Damage Lill through Committee. It is a welcome and...

cc A FTER the war," said Mr. Attlee at Oxford last Friday, "we shall again have those healthy differences of opinion which are the life-blood of democracy." We undoubtedly...

Record, the pamphlet embodying Sir Robert Vansittart's broadcast indictment of Germany (Hamish Hamilton, 6d.), about which the Prime Minister was questioned in the House of...

able ashington correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, printed n Wednesday, to which serious attention should be paid. 'siring of the popularity which Lord Halifax has already...

I F, as seems certain, President Roosevelt appoints Mr. John Gilbert Winant to succeed Mr. Kennedy in London, he will be taking a step that can evoke nothing but sausfaction....

on two hours instead of one is being seriously considered in Whitehall, not least by Mr. Bevin's department. The argu- ments in favour are pretty obvious. Either offices and...

of our visit to the Fiji Islands? The native men there only wear loin- cloths, and to distinguish the policeman, who is also a native, from the common herd, his loin-cloth is...

London his views on the post-war "order." Speaking of Sweden, I am glad to be able to recommend what the A.A. would call the shortest practicable route to anyone thinking of...

By STRATEGICUS W HILE our eyes are inevitably fixed on the victorious march of the Imperial armies through the Libyan desert, and the more surprising drama that is working...

By THE HEADMASTER OF RUGBY I SUGGESTED at the close of my previous article that the 1 outstanding contribution which boarding-schools ought to make to their country is...

By C. E. M. JOAD T HE controversy as to the existence of purpose and design in the universe is an old one. Why, it may be asked, raise it again? I suggest that it raises itself,...

By DAVID THOMSON T is crisis-hour for the Fascist regime in Italy, which means that it is the supreme opportunity for British propaganda move to the offensive. Mr. Churchill's...

By SIR WILLIAM BEACH THOMAS J UST as Edison grieved when he looked at the wasted power of the sea, a famous Continental gourmet lamented at the spectacle of great, fat snails...

THERE can be nothing but praise for Mr. Donald Wolfit's enter- prise in- presenting Othello at full-length. It shows not merely the entinisiasm and determination of his company,...

Indoor Branches Early forced flowers tend to be more and more expensive. Branches of spring-flowering shrubs, brought into the house now, wil develop flowers with astonishing...

intimation that a postponement of the calling up of agricultural workers is under official consideration. Drainage and ploughing are jobs of increasingly urgent importance....

"The Blue Goose." By Peter Blackmore. At the Comedy Theatre I WASN'T fortunate enough to see Mr. Blackmore's first play, Lot's Wife, but I certainly shall not miss his next. The...

The holly is one of the features of the English countryside which always astonish foreigners; to Englishmen it is a tradi- tional tree, so that as soon as it lacks . berries it...

Perhaps the commonest mistake among gardeners is wastage of seeds during sowing. There are several ways of making seed go further. With onions and leeks, for example, the sowing...

IN journeyings my weak soul makes And breaks the pestilence of swarming sin. I am the traveller through the burning lakes Who bears the body with the message in. I am the field...

"Freedom Radio." At the Regal. IN the contemporary world where there is so much courage in evidence both for good and bad causes, a very special tribute is still due to the...

" Wanderer " Fantasy IN his latest ballet, produced by the Sadler's Wells Company at the New Theatre this week, Mr. Frederick Ashton has sought to do for Schubert's " Wanderer...

SIR,—Certainly we are all consumers, but we are also—nearly all of us—participators in the wink of producing goods and services; and it is not obvious why exclusive attention to...

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 must be fewer. Writers are...

below from the article by the Archbishop of York in last week's Spectator: "Within the economic activity the end is the satisfaction of human physical needs. . . The interest of...

SIR,—AS one of the signatories of the letter to The Times on Decem- ber 30th, I should like to con.ment on some of the points that Sir Herbert Kealy raises in his letter in your...

Stn,—I command an infantry company in the North of England, and my men are drawn largely from Liverpool and Manchester. Many of them have had their houses damaged or destroyed...

Sne,—In what he has written under the general heading of " Archi- tecture," Mr. John Piper seems to me to have adulterated his usual good sense with some quite unusual nonsense....

Sitti—I was very much astonished by the contents of the article in your. issue of January 17th, under the heading of "The case of the U.D.F.," by Donald Taylor, who entirely...

Sta,—A short time ago you published a letter of mine, in which I made a protest against the attempt to represent the Germans as having been, to a special degree, an aggressive...

Sitt,—I have read the letters in your November 22nd issue relative to the desirability of bombing Rome. Leaving out all sentiment, holy or otherwise, let us get down to brass...

SIR,—The ways of columnists with a fixed space to fill every week are semetimes strange. Who that read Mr. H. E. Bates's paragraph "Cackle Pie" (January 17th, 1941) would have...

SIR,—In his comments on the suppression of the Daily Worker "Janus" overlooks the fundamental questions raised by the methods employed, namely, the application of Regulation 2D,...

of that major heresy which it was my intention in writing to you in the first place to refute, namely that for Germany's behaviour now we have to thank a too harsh peace treaty...

Lord Robert A Great Experiment. By Viscount Cecil. (Cape. 16s.) Tins volume is sub-titled, with distressing mendacity, an auto- biography. Would that it were that. Actually it...

The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry. Edited by Hugh MacDiarmid. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d.) Garmina Gadelica. Vol. III. Collected by Alexander Carmichael (Oliver and Boyd. ISS.)...

Why France Fell. By Andre Maurois. (John Lane. 5s.) A FEW months ago M. Andre Maurois wrote, rather hastily, a little book called The Battle of France. Competent and read-...

Prehistoric England. By Grahame Clark.' (Batsford. Ss. 6d.) Tnakrxs to modern- archaeology, our doubt and ignorance con- cerning prehistoric man are rapidly becoming more...

On Circuit 1924-1937. By Sir Frank Douglas Mackinnon, Lord Justice of Appeal. (Cambridge University Press. as.) Tins book is quite unlike the ordinary legal book of reminis-...

FROM time to time there appears upon the literary scene that rare figure, the writer who is also an artist. Frequently one of his two talents is out of all proportion to the...

The Friends of the People By Alfred Neumann. (Hutchinson. to& 6d.) MISS PHYLLIS BENTLEY can always be relied on to tell a ston. swiftly and coherently : one is never left not...

IT is difficult to take a retrospective view of the war without shuddering at our political ineptitude during the preceding decade. A weaker vessel than " Sagittarius " might be...

WILLIAMS DEACON'S BANK LIMITED STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN, MR. G. P. DEWHURST IN view of existing conditions, and in place of his usual annual address, the following statement...

bought Dr. Adler's rather earnest attempt to make rules for reading. It's an awful vision—perhaps a quarter of a. million Americans swotting up their reading. For reading,...

liss DOREEN WALLACE knows the Lakes thoroughly, both as a onle and as a holiday-place, and she is a sound guide to the , umryside and to its basic activities, such as...

Allan Nevins. (Pelican Books. 6d.) HE compilers' object has been to present a representative election, in prose and verse, of the idea of freedom as expressed Britain and the...

Tins is a very sensible and well-put-together guide to th e pleasures of shooting, as well suited to instruct the adult who is just taking to shooting as it is to shape the...

By " CUSTOS " WHAT with the Budget casting its shadows, and invasion talk going the rounds again, who could expect markets to be other than dull? They might quite pardonably...

Person of Quality to his Friend, concerning the King's Declaration." Edited by Hugh Macdonald. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. 6d.) CLOSE students of the stormy political...

MARTINS BANK FULL SHARE IN WAR EFFORT RECORD DEPOSITS MR. FREDERIC ALAN BATES, chairman, presiding at the i loth annual general meeting of Martins Bank, Limited, at Liverpool,...

BARCLAYS BANK RECORD DEPOSITS THE FALL IN ADVANCES MR. EDWIN FISHER'S ADDRESS THE 46th ordinacy general meeting of Barclays Bank, Limited, was held on Monday, January 27th, at...

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