The agreement reached at Geneva regarding the Italo- Abyssinian dispute reflects credit on everyone concerned. Mr. Eden must by general consent be awarded chief honours, but he...

read M. Flandin may have fallen and the depreciation of the French currency he in full progress. The causes of the present crisis are fully discussed in an article on a later...

the negotiations with regard to an Air Pact is eminently satisfactory. That was essentially the first step to take, and both Herr Hitler and our own Govern- ment appear to ....

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com- panies which require investigation ; but there is a special need for legislation in regard to companies which insure against motor accidents, since motorists are required...

of London which The Spectator was discussing last week has been taken by the Minister of Health, who has approved the London County Council's scheme for town-planning the whole...

in the treatment of juvenile offenders, but we have a long way to go, as Lord Hewart showed in his Clarke Hall lecture last Friday, before we shall have found the ideal...

military writer on the fatal vulnerability of London, not merely under attack from the air but under long-range gunfire from the French or Belgian coasts, is a great deal more...

been considering the petition of Western Australia to secede from the Australian Commonwealth has concluded that though it is within the legal competence of Parliament to pass...

week between Germany and Great Britain are to be welcomed if only because they represent an attempt, however modest, to tie together the broken strings of the disarmament...

he raised with all his remarkable debating skill in the adjournment on Tuesday the question of the discharge from a branch of the Territorial army in Edinburgh of William...

given on Monday to a demand for information as to the steps that the Government was taking to carry out Mr. Baldwin's promise that there would be no profiteering as a result of...

find another assembly in which such a question as that of the Gin Traps (Prohibition) Bill could be discussed with so much practical knowledge as in the House of Lords. Yet the...

The fact that the replies received by the organizers of the Peace Ballot now exceed nine million, and may reach ten million when all are in, is a fact whose sig- nificance it...

India Bill has been proceeding through its report stage in such an atmosphere of bored reasonableness that the spectators in the Gallery might well have thought that it was an...

least of the credit for the fact that in the 10 weeks ended May 18th, 1935; the numbers of persons killed and injured on the roads were reduced by 13.9 and 9.7 per cent,...

amid general acclamation from the Government supporters and very mild criticism from the Opposition. Figures published the same morning were impressive evidence of the succ e ss...

H ERR HITLER'S Reichstag - speech was discussed at length in these columns last week. No apology is needed for returning to it. The peace of Europe depends on a wise solution of...

of the Supreme Court of the T United States re-emphasize the fact that President Roosevelt, in spite of the immense powers which he exercises, is in no proper sense of the term...

means that journalism must plainly be counted among the dan- gerous trades—but every journalist knew that already. It is extraordinarily difficult to summarize fairly in a few...

his own self again. We cannot possibly have too many level heacli available to lend a hand in steering the ship of State through these dangerous waters."—The Taller.

T HE personal element has figured rather largely in Anglo-French relations since the War. Mr. Mac- Donald and M. Herriot, Sir 'Austen Chamberlain and M. Briand (with Dr....

in the protest of the Public Orator of Cambridge against the statement that a certain gentleman represented the University of Cambridge at the canonization of Sir Thomas More...

touches on a rather disturbing factor in inter- national relations.. There has, says .the writer, been a general belief that British opinion favoured Italy's " active " policy...

is part of a fortnight's crop. A daily paper, to illustrate an article on unchaperoned holidays, had found a photograph of a married lady cycling with a lady friend . and,...

TN these last three critical years when with each month 1 the international situation has worsened and the prospects of disarmament have become increasingly remote and Europe is...

By GEOFFREY CROWTHER T HE gold bloc is in extremis. As originally consti- tuted after the failure of the London Conference in 1933, the bloc had five members—France, Italy,...

By CAPTAIN W. A. POWELL S IR JOHN GILMOUR has announced the Govern- ment's decision to form a Home Office Department to deal with the question of the protection of the civil...

By GRAHAM WATSON T HE twopenny lending library—pay twopence and take a book—is a comparatively recent innovation, the logical development of the older and more expensive...

By RALPH MORTON T HERE were twelve of us in the bus when at last it started. But when we reached the east gate of the town a soldier jumped on. " Have you got a ticket ? "...

By ROSE MACAULAY I SOMETIMES wonder if publishers overestimate the .I. modernity of their readers' tastes, or if this is impossible. " We like .books dealing with modern con-...

PRISON Discirilsz.—In the. House of Peers, on Monday, Lord MELBOURNE pledged himself to bring in a bill to improve the state of the prisons, in conformity with the resolution of...

0 son doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges To dine with Lord Lobcock and Count Asthma on the platinum benches, With the somersaults and fireworks, the roast and...

A Letter from Oxford [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Once in a lifetime the Oxford summer term is memor- able for something other than Eights Week, Schools and Commem,...

Fred Astaire and Miss Ginger Rogers appear in leading parts, the mainspring of Roberta is its dancing, and dancing which is not- only wonderfully skilful but graceful and...

" The Scoundrel." At the Plaza - THE scoundrel is a New York publisher played by Mr. Noel Coward, who appears as a film actor for the first time. His Tony Mallare is one of...

" The Magic Flute" at Glyndebourne A PERFORMANCE of Mozart's Die Zauberflote should be some- thing more than an entertainment, something more, even, than a musical experience...

From Royalty to Savage- WITH the help of photographs of tombs and manuscripts to supplement the paintings Messrs. Agnew have contrived to collect portraits of all the kings and...

[Von einem Deutschen Korrespondenten] IN Berlin fanden innerhalb einer Woche zwei Prozesse statt, die sogar in unserer ungewohnlichen Zeit etwas ganz ausser- ordentliches...

Penalties of the Frost Until the summer is over, gardeners, and indeed farmers and game preservers, will continue to find lamentable results of the worst May frost within...

An American, who is a fond gardener, once expressed astonishment to me that English people were content to plant lupins on their borders. The flower is a wild weed in some parts...

The Chelsea flower show, which has several autumn but no spring rivals, proved a triumph for the landscape gardeners. The rock garden was not a flower garden at all, but a...

big country houses to the public on a select day or two in the summer has given great pleasure and earned a fair sum of money for charity. One of those who thus invited the...

swallows are said to be fled ? Some came to us, of course, much earlier than the date of the frost, but the bigger immigrations are usually the latest. The " single spies " of...

phenologists, because they study the dates and correlations of appearances, may like to take cognizance of a certain West Countryman's annual prophecy. He is a great observer of...

Birds on the whole suffered rather less than one feared ; but very melancholy accounts come from some of the grouse moors exposed to the north east. This hostile wind (so loudly...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...

too suspicious. If he will refer to the House of Commons' report of May 9th, he will find that the Minister of Agriculture estimates the cost for this year's crop at £5,766,308,...

Sin,—Your correspondent Mr. William Borthwick claims to be a farmer, but his reasoning seems to be based on joint- stock company investment and returns in the form of dividends....

quoting figures of the cost of production of cane and beet sugars, ignores the very important comment of Mr. Cyril Lloyd, in his Minority Report, on this matter. In fairness, I...

pupil of his predecessor, Dr. Hillard, I read Mr. Bell's article on " The Homework Problem " with particular interest. He does not specify the exact amount of time that he...

THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Seldom hitherto have I found myself in agreement with Major Attlee and never with Sir Stafford Cripps. But, judging from the brief epitome in The Times of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As one who has spent ten of the post-War years in Germany, and has many friends there as well as in France, I should like to endorse what...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am grateful to Squadron-Leader P. R. Burchall for his appreciation, in your issue of May 10th, of my monograph on a European Air...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some time since the Attorney-General considered it advisable personally to warn the public, through the B.B.C., against the activities of...

through My article on Marshal Pilsudski which appeared in The Spectator of May 18th I regret to notice that I made a slip of the pen. The Exhibition, at the :open* of . which on...

SIR,—It appears that in saying of Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt Junior's Farewell To ...Fifth Avenue, that " the English critics have gaily ridiculed Mr. Vanderbilt's earnest expose...

you aciclided Mr. Baldwin for the peroration of his speech of Mity 22nd, was somewhat Spoilt by the fact that your Parliarnentary correspondent quoted his words inaccurately....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In No. 5578 of Friday, May 24th, 1935, of your appre- ciated paper you have an article : News of the Week, The Czech Elections. You spoke...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.,] SIR,—Janus, in ,your issue of May 17th, 1935, with referents to the lamented death of Professor F. C. Burkitt of Cambridge, expressed the...

By A. L. ROWSE TEE psychology of the martyr is surely a very curious and morbid thing. Two main elements seem to be essential to it in conjunction ; -and in these days of...

The Duty of Empire. By Leonard Barnes. (Gollanez. 10s. 6d.) MR. LEONARD BARNES' new book is the most ambitious essay in polemics he has yet attempted. In Caliban in Africa and...

LORD WESTER WEMYSS has left his own account of his work at Gallipoli, and this book is not going to add to what might be called the quarrelsome literature of the War and post-...

Trim, the author tells us, is " not a book about the Far East "-; it is a book about " war in the Far East." All other questions are today overshadowed, in Mr. Peffer's eyes, by...

Love Poems. By W. H. Diiiries: (Cape. Ss. 6d.) A Winter Diary. By Mark van Doren. (Macmillan 8s. (id.) HERE are five books of verse, all written, presumably, by honest,...

Tim career of Gervase Elwes was a triumph of personality, and something more. Considered purely as an instrument, his voice was not of the first order. Though fresh and...

Memoirs of a Cheat. Sacha Guitry's Tale. (Gollancz. 6s.) Ma. GOLLANCZ grows very quipsome. From an encircling scarlet band we learn that Memoirs of a Cheat has gained the ' Prix...

Louisa Alcoa. By Cornelia Meigs. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) I HAVE often thought that a volume, itself delightful, might be written on Delightful Books " ; those books which, whatever...

SEAN O'FAOLAIN B y 7s. 6d.) Nancy Brown. By H. P. McGraw. (Heinemann. 7s. New Arcadia; By Maurice Bedel. Gs.) " An ! yes ! " sighed a furniture-remover man to a friend of...

By WILL Y. DARLING * TT was a Scottish writer who wrote " To travel hope- fully. fully is a better thing than to arrive," and there must be many who this year have determined...

By WILLIAM POWER "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven !" T HESE hackneyed lines take on fresh meaning when applied to tramping conditions in...

By GEORGE SCOTT-MONCRIEFF pENERALI - Vspeaking the big roads cast a network la over Scotland and each county is caught up in the string bag. The tourist in his car can traverse...

By ALEXANDER WANLESS TN Scotland, when we think of fishing, we think in terms .11., of trout, sea-trout or saint - on. Although we have perch, as in. Loch Leven where large...

By J. J. MILLER T HERE is no other kind of athletic fixture in Scotland which has so long and so closely been linked up with national sentiment as the series of annual Gala Days...

By L. A. G. STRONG 'ITEM; vidi, rictus sum. It is just ten years since, doggedly resolved to be faithful to the Ireland of my blood and the. Devon of my birth, I travelled up to...

uniqw.. place-names in all Great Britain, bid especially in Erigland, there is none more apt than Scotch Corner, none simpler nor more suitable. He must have been a, writer of...

Fletcher of Saltoun Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun : His Life and Times. By W. C. Mackenzie. (The Porpoise Press. 15s.) This biography is very much a public biography, and Andrew...

Colonsay and Oronsay in the Isles of Argyle. By John de - Vere Loder. (Oliver and Boyd.. 35s.) The Lordship of the Isles. By I. F. Grant. (The Moray Press. 21s.) OF these five...

THE blue stain on the hedge's green Was flower and flower : Who were unhappy having seen ? But ask not why, within that hour, A joy had been Given not only to the eye. Those...

AN interesting aim for research would be to determine that precise quality in the West Highlands which inspires so much bad writing. It is not enough that the country is...

of Scotland met on Thursday week. Dr. W. Thomson, of Perth, was chosen Moderator ; and his first act was to express to the King's Commissioner his delight at the proposal in his...

Scottish Banking [By A SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENT.] IN common with their contemporaries elsewhere, the - Banks in Scotland continue to ,operate under conditions_ by no means...

BRITISH FUNDS • LOWER. PRICES in the Stock Markets during the last few days have moved somewhat irregularly, and an outstanding feature has been the very generalAet-back in...

. Although the fall in British Government Stocks may not be connected with the currency crisis in Fiance and the heavy fall in the franc, the fact remains that the event may...

that the Company had had a good year. At the annual meeting held this week, the Chairman, Mr. A. E. Pattinson, made it clear that the satisfactory results had been secured. in...

Not .the least interestipefeattire during the past week has i been the spurt n the Preference stock, of Cable and Wireless (itniding), - Ltd. The latest annual report showed a...

BY ZENO [A- prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...

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On more than one occasion I have expressed the belief that very cheap money And abnormally high prices of gilt- edged securities have their dangers as well as their advantages....