has in substance accepted the figures agreed upon by the Japanese and American delegates. Japan obtains thereby her ratio of seventy per cent. in light cruisers and...

"- that sort of legislation which cOnveyi 'no meaning unless it be read in the context of previous ACts: - . The Bill is officially called a Housing Bill and:that is- what it...

Government have no more important • measure in domestie politics than theft: Bill for slum clearance, the text - of which was issued on Monday night; Mr. Arthur Greenwood, the...

areasareas so bad that the only remedy is' demolition ; (2)' improvement areas—areas where the Conditioni can be remedied without demolition ; (3) individual insanitary houses....

the local 'authorities for slum clearance—the present grants must not exceed one half of the estimated annual 'average lois—the Bill proposes to establish a flied annual grant...

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March 28th, after being defeated on an Old Age Pensions Bill. The defeat was the result of carelessness, many of the Government's supporters being absent. But Mr. Cosgrave has...

also done much hard thinking, and every day sees more converts to the idea that making arrangements for war to keep the peace is d'efinitely the wrong way to organize peace....

the most flagrant illustration of the fears and hatreds, bred by the War, which dominated the minds of the statesmen at the Peace Conference. And these fears and hatreds, aided...

feeling of the whole British people," that though Great Britain desires to do everything she can for improving the machinery of peace she will have nothing to do with any...

concerted measures of war- prevention as are laid down in Article 16 of the Covenant. That being so, the fundamental issue is : What does Article 16 mean ? Or, to put it in...

Tardieu last Sunday, when the Chamber ratified the Young Plan by five hundred and twenty-seven votes to thirty-eight, suggest that the required break-away from the idea of...

Reichstag to pass the Young Plan and the attached finance Bills ! Herr Miiller's Cabinet was not expected to last long, It resigned on Thursday, March 27th, the occasion being a...

farmers without tariffs. So far as that goes, we approve, but the fact must be faced that all attempts to stabilize prices by purchasing and storing grain are risky. The...

death penalty for cowardice and some other offences, but retains it for desertion, treachery and mutiny. Cowardice and desertion are so nearly allied as to be sometimes indis-...

with Egypt were opened on Monday at the Foreign Office. Mr. Henderson and the Egyptian Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, made formal speeches of great good will. The delegations then...

the reports that the Government have decided upon an agricultural policy. They are credited with the intention of introducing a Marketing Bill which would empower a majority of...

on Monday, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer found himself with a deficit of t14,500;000. Not only the Government's expenditure, chiefly on the Unemployment Insurance Fund,...

on March 20th, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was op Wednesday 1031; on Wednesday week, 103i ; a year ago, 1011; Funding Loan (4 percent.) was on Wednesday 911x.d.; on Wednesday...

Act of 1929 came into force, and with the disappearance of the Guardians a notable epoch in - our social history came to an end. The work of the Guardians passed into the hands...

of the former Guardians will be brought back into service. There is a reasonable expectation that this will happen, as the intention of the Ministry of Health is that medical...

example of Western Australia and New South Wales, rejected a " no licence ". proposal by a substantial majority. Canada, except for Prince Edward Island, has, of course,...

T HE Commission which was appointed to inquire into the riots of August, 1929, in Palestine has issued its Report, and it may be said at once that though the Commission strayed...

[The interview with Mr. Henry Ford which was printed in the Spectator last week has aroused considerable interest. We decided to invite comment from one or two leading British...

I WAS much interested to read the interview with Mr. Henry Ford on British unemployment, because I like to think of him as a friend, and I have a great admiration for the...

[This contribution from the Bishop of Southwark was written after the appearance of an article in the Spectator of March -1st. We shall publish next week a study of the...

[Professor J. S. Haldane, C.H., F.R.S., has been engaged in scientific teaching and investigation since 1885. His book, Mechan- ism, Life and Personality, was published in 1913,...

question of Imperial wireless communications on Wednesday of last week. As was to be expected, he put the case against the Government decision not to use the beam service of the...

T HE boundaries of the planetary system have been extended over a thousand million miles by a few faint marks on photographic plates. Whilst meditating on the great effects that...

book-boxes of the Charing Cross Road, I recentlyfound some of extreme delicacy in a book called First and Second Poems (Sheed and Ward). The author is a woman, Ruth Pitter....

to put ourselves in the shoes of another race, but many of us—unfortunately—imagine that a system that works well in England must also flourish in alien soil. Democracy, for...

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPON D ENT.] PUBLIC interest in Mr. Gandhi's pilgrimage has already begun to wane. The news of his progress is relegated to the back pages of all save the...

rot COCHRAN'S 1980 REVUE." BY BEVERLEY NICHOLS. AT THE LONDON PAVILION. " SOCRATES." By CLIFFORD BAX. THREE HUNDRED CLUB.] LET us begin boldly, pragmatically, arrogantly, by...

notify the'SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EAD WEBS. The previous address to which. the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

WAR ON FI.OWERS. Flowers are very important things : their cult grows daily ; but by the same token their number decreases in the Wild; • though. it 'increases in the tame. A...

It is reckoned that this spring is a fortnight later than the normal. But it makes good very rapidly. The first migrant birds began to appear in numbers this week, and...

The gist of the matter—its botany as well as its philosciphy- is to be • found in one of the most charming and also well- documented little books that I know : Our Vanishing...

I was asked the other day, what struck inc most during a recent tour of Southern Spain. The only truthful answer was, " Goats." They left a yet more various and lasting...

wild flowers and wantto' . pick them. Many a 'dull room is sanctified = if the word is n ot too a'howl of primroses or bluebells or marsh marigolds. I was . horrified when, a...

A large number of the rarer flowers dwindle and vanish: You can scarcely find any local or county record of flowers that does not - bewail 'some threatened extinction: one...

Some people have suggested that we should " paint the lily to throw a perfume on the violet " by sowing the seeds of garden plants broadcast. The idea does not altogether please...

In the evening General FitzWilliam's Harper came. He immediately began to tune his Harp in the Hall, on hearing which We left our dining Room and adjourned to it— He began to...

A circumstance happened at this time which had it been foreseen, would have given general alarm on H. My's. Account, in respect to its consequences, at a period like this. The...

The Chancellor & Mr. Pitt came here this day. They both saw The King seperately & both were alone with Him. The Chancellor's Visit was short. Mr. Pitt's was about an hour & a...

In H.Mys. walk of this Morning He went along the Terrace near The River in his way to the Observatory. As He passed along, some Men going down the River in a Boat hailed Him...

Many of these extracts from the hitherto unpublished Diaries of Robert Fulke Greville, shortly to be brought out in their entirety by Messrs. John Lane under the Editorship of...

Angst 14th This day arrived The Farrel Sloop which made a little addition of strength to our little Squadron. Signals from the Ships & shore have been this day settled, &...

[At a subsequent period His Majesty made Weymouth a 'frequent Summer Residence attended by The Queen and the Princesses. They resided in Gloucester Lodge which was fitted up for...

The Arrival of Colonel Manners this day in regular suc- ceeding Waiting as Equerry to His Majesty, releived Me from My long Waiting as such, of sixteen Weeks, excepting the...

Our ride this morning was on the Turnpike Road to the Hill beyond Upway where We left it & got upon the Downs. descending afterwards to Monkton at the corner of the Village His...

Just as His M. was going with The Marquis of Bucking. ham to His Tent, He saw a very young officer & asked who He was. L. B. told Him that His name was Harris, that He was Son...

S1R,—To one who has had to study more or less the A to Z of the question of " technological unemployment," as one has to do during the tenure for many years of a lectureship on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In this country there are employed and unemployed workers. Looking at conditions generally, there is a suffi- ciency of food, clothing,...

THE NAVAL CONFERENCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Still the Naval Conference goes on. Slowly but surely, I am told on good authority. Maybe. But I cannot but feel,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Now that the Egyptian question is once more occupying the attention of public men in this country, it may be oppor- tune to make a few...

am obliged to " Manzai " for his reference to the report of my speech which appeared in the Wimbledon Borough News of February 7. I need hardly say that the statement that 64...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] _ Sin,—This question is being complicated by and .diverted to futile and irrelevant issues. What does it matter whether there are 23 million....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Dean of Chester, in his admirable article under this heading, quotes the distich—so appropriate to the coming season of Passiontide :...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni-,The letter of . Geo.. G. Armstrong in your last issue raises a _qtiestion which, I submit, should be dealt with before this useful...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May it not be that the present shortage of ordinands is intended to serve as a call to the Church to utilize the large amount of new...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] • SIR,—Mr. Wigg's letter in the Spectator of March 15th touches a reform long overdue. Our British system of money, weights, and measures has...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The committee of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds has found it advisable to issue a kind of manifesto which has been distributed...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you forgive a reader who admires the Spectator greatly, if• he makes a respectful complaint ? My trouble is the great increase in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I am delighted with the singularly enlightened article by Mr. Harold Cox on the removal of railings, which is well in the Free Trade...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Minister of Agriculture states that during 1929 no British horses, exported for butchery, were slaughtered in Belgitim or at...

reading a book review, under the above heading, in a recent issue of the Spectator, I learned with interest some of the amiable. habits of the unicorn ; and am reminded of an...

ONCE from a summit met my enchanted gazing outspread a vast dim world with silvered streams, bounded by far serrations, scarce upraising the dull red orb above that land of...

SOUPER AND BOYCOTT. It would be of interest to your readers in Ireland to know if the word " souper " is in common use in Great Britain in the newspapers that circulate among...

THE " SPECTATOR," - Aran. Sao; 1830. ' ' TRIAL OF DUELLISTS. Lieutenant LaMbrecht,' Mr. Cox, and Mr. Bigley, were tried • at Kingston, yesterday, before Mr. Justice Bayley,...

_Davies, 8s. 6d.), is an extraordinary sea-story : as queer arid startling in its miniature wayas is Moby Dick on the grand scale. It deals with the adventures of a wierd web-...

of the Week Ma. E. W. HENDY'S second collection of nature essays, Wild Exmoor Through the Year (Cape, lOs. 6d.) is just as good as his first, The Lure of Bird-Watching, which we...

and' Hall, Os.), Mr. Gilbert Thomas confesses that he was at school neither an athlete nor a scholar. That is as much as to say that he is no specialist, or not, at least, on...

make a delightful pair. Mr. Walter Jerrold has a reason for thus coupling their names. The greater part of the book consists of Wood's " Reminiscences," and he remembers many...

Tim Editor of the Spectator offers a prize of £5 5s. for the best County Story. Stories must not exceed two hundred words in length. The Editor reserves the right to publish any...

Dominion Autonomy in Practice. By A. B. Keith, D.C.L., D. Litt. (Orford University Press. be.) The Colonial Service. By Sir Anton Bertram. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d.)...

Before going abroad or away from home readers are advised to place an order for the SpEcrracia. The journal will be forwarded to any'address at the following rates :— One Month...

Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Drew) : Her Diaries and Letters. Edited by Lucy Masterman. (Methuen. 21s.) MARY GLADSTONE was the fifth of Mr. Gladstone's eight children. Her mother was...

THAT public-spirited, quick-wittei and, to our shame, sadly under-financed body, the Design and Industries Association, has stepped aside from its specific function of awakening...

Palestine 'To - day and To - morrow. By J. H. Holmes. (Allen and Unwin. 10s.) • MANY - books have been written sine the War about Palestine. but . none tells the truth so...

Pilgrim's Progress in the World To-day. By the Rev. H. F. B. Mackay. (Philip Allan. 38. 6d.) THE Vicar of the celebrated church to which he refers as " St. Margaret's, Mowbray...

Miss IRIS BARRY has taken for the theme of her book an exceedingly simple idea, but one which (so simple - is it) has never been worked out before. " What would happen," she has...

The Top Note Flood. By Robert Neumann. Translated by William A. Drake. (Putnam. 7s. 6d.) 7s. fkL) LET the novelist and the musicians work themselves up wildly to the final top...

Clutterbuck hardly did anything else. She was the capable, managing widow of a north country business man and - all • her dominating, organizing abilities in the quiet village...

7s. 6d.)—This is a study in the lives Of three cool. blooded people : Charles, a young man who becomes with suspicious ease a great portrait painter ; Anne, his one time...

7s. 6d.)This book is certainly, _ to quote its opening words, " not least foul among these night-monsters." The hero and heroine, in the inverted fashion of this class of...

Modern Pilgrim Routes [We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in their plans for travel at home and abroad. They are written by correspondents...

Guide to ?letter Garages, published for the Design and Industries Association by Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson (6d.): There -is no reason why petrol pumps and garages should be...

Thanks to Herodotus and Xenophon and the Old Testainent, the early Persian kings are more familiarly known than any other Eastern - potentates in or before their time. Thus...

Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. L. Pakenham, c/o Union Bank, Pitt Street, Sydney, Australia, for the fol-...

but now much restored house of Ardincaple, standing up behind Helensburgh at the entrance to the Gareloch. Mr. E. R. Welles, after much patient research, has compiled an...

and the old town beside it, nothing could be better than Rugby (A. and C. Black, 3s. 6d.), which contains twenty-four attractive pencil drawings by Mr. Joseph Pike and a short...

Organization (1919-1929) are clearly described and pleasingly illustrated by a recent publication of the International Labour Office. The story is told by Mr. Arthur Fontaine,...

a history of one's own town or village, for the need is great and the workers are still relatively few. The young people in every place ought to know something about the ways...

is still unwritten. But recently several books have appeared which help to fill up the gap, and the latest recruit to that honourable company is The Social and Economic...

Those who enjoyed the privilege of hearing Professor Mari- tain lecture during his recent visit to London, will be grateful for the excellent translation of Art and...

The Year's Deficit I DO not propose to waste the time of readers of these columns by arguing at any length as to whether the responsibility for the past year's realized deficit...

in poetry, that the much boomed Scotch Renaissance shows most signs of taking shape. Of The Switchback : The Pardoner's Tale : The Sunlight Sonata, by James Bridie (Constable,...

3s. 6d.), is a worthy record of a very worthy achievement. As speeches, or as literature, they are not brilliant, but they do represent admirably what General Dawes in his...

REACTIoNARY MARKETS . VARIOUS circumstances combined to impart a more sober tone to the stock markets during the past week. The big deficit in the national accounts, referred...

recent _meeting of the Associated Portland Cement Manu- facturers with regard to industrial reconstruction and industrial problems were certainly justified by the record of the...

Sir Enoch Hill, the president and managing director of the Halifax Building Society, was able, at the recent annual meeting of the society, to give a most excellent account of...

It is not surprising that at the recent meeting of Vickers Sir Herbert Lawrence drew attention to the fact that one effect of the non-extension of the Export Credits Scheme to...

Readers of these columns, if they were not well acquainted with the ways of finance, might imagine that the great rush for some of the recent new issues of capital denotes a...

our leading Eastern banks; and this is now being evidenced in the manner in which they are passing through the difficult times in China and the less prosperous trade conditions...