T HOUGH the patrol arrangements off the Spanish coast and on Spain's land frontiers technically come into effect at midnight on March 6th, they are not likely to be in full...

The resolutions adopted by the Fascist Grand Council on Monday regarding the militarisation of Italy are no doubt .the normal response of Italy in her present temper to the...

hand make it clear 'that the Indian National Congress Party candidates have succeeded beyond their own or anyone else's expecta- tions. They have clear majorities in the...

Henlein, the leader of the Sudetendeutsch in Czechoslovakia, has rejected out of hand the important concessions made at the instance of a million German citizens of...

by the Secretary for the Colonies a year ago to investigate the institution known as Mui Tsai, involving the adoption of girl children—usually in effect by sale and purchase —...

Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, on Tuesday made concessions to organised Labour which are described as unprecedented in America's industrial history. By signing a one-year...

which begins its work next week, has been given a good start by the admirable study of the problem prepared for it by the Secretariat of the League. The Secretariat has, perhaps...

Saturday when, despite the fierce attacks of M. Flandin and others, he secured a large majority on a vote of confidence in the Chamber. He had no difficulty in showing that his...

some time have been urging the Government to reduce the tariff on iron and steel products ; it advises that the duty of 331 per cent. on imported pig-iron be abolished and the...

assisting the special and depressed areas will not have an easy passage. The White Paper issued this week consists of a fairly comprehensive review of what has already been done...

much difference between the declared policies of the various parties. It is true that neither Liberals nor Socialists can find much to cavil at in the recent pronouncements of...

mind of the average member that Tuesday's debate on foreign affairs was for the most part a continuation of the discussion on the Defence Loans Bill. This was illustrated by a...

Oxford University election is remarkable in its completeness, for it is doubtful whether any single person believed in the possibility of his securing an actual majority of the...

Defence Loan has produced a curious reversal of the accustomed roles. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has flung orthodoxy to the winds and rejoices in the temporary support of...

Chamber of Shipping last week, Sir Richard Holt made a proposal which, as he suggested, might usefully be considered at the next Imperial Conference. He pointed out that while...

Government's proposals regarding the Special Areas has aroused expectations which the White Paper issued on Monday only in a very limited degree satisfies. It is significant,...

The report is brief but far from simple, for the inter- relations between the various film companies, renters, producers and exhibitors are as complicated as a Chinese puzzle....

T HE belief is apparently entertained quite seriously in Germany that Mr. Eden will cease to be Foreign Secre- tary soon after the Coronation. It rests on four assumptions —that...

By H. V. HODSON IT has become almost a commonplace of political thought in the British Commonwealth that mutual understand- ing and co-operation between the two great...

By Dr. G. C. ALLEN F ROM 1922 to 1925 I lived in a provincial town in Japan, and not until last year was I able to revisit the country. Before I returned there in July I...

By SIR. ARTHUR SALTER, M.P. FEEL able to respond to the request for some comment on the Oxford election because its significance is obviously political and not personal. Sir...

By MARK BENNEY O NE day in 1926, when I had just commenced my Borstal sentence, I was called into the housemaster's office and asked what trade I should like to learn. I had no...

By E. B. CASTLES I TN his article on " Religion and Youth " in last week's Spectator, Mr. Peter Winckworth very truly says that a sub-Christian compromise is more likely to...

By JAMES HANLEY T HE two boys had got half-way down the lane when they both stopped dead. One swung his satchel in the air, the other laid his on the low stone wall. The tall...

WHITSUN PASTORALS." 0- DArmas flute your longing, 0 Chloe turn your cheek The gleaners sing the Linus song, the girls play hide and seek Beauty and Youth go naked to tempt the...

By SYLVIA STEVENSON 1 . the time these lines appear in print, the L.C.C. elections I will be decided. I have the manifestoes of the two parties before me. Labour's is hopefully...

Commonwealth and Foreign By JOHN GATEHOUSE AUSTRIA is rapidly approaching the crossroads. One way leads to Habsburg ; the other to Hitler. It appears reason- ably certain, not...

" Fire Over England." At the Leicester Square Theatre- " Maid of Salem." At the Carlton—" Theodora Goes Wild." At the Regal HERR POMNIER, the German producer, and Mr. William K....

THE THEATRE " The Ascent of F 6." By W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. At the Mercury Theatre—" Retreat from Folly." By Amy Kennedy Gould. At the Queen's Theatre The...

Kurpfalz " ist ein beliebtes deutsches Volkslied. Auch Georg Biichner lasst es in seinem unsterblichen " Wozzek " im Chore singen : " Halli, hallo, gar lustig ist die Jdgerei...

MUSIC WHENEVER Rigoletto or La Traviata is revived, someone is sure to talk of " early Verdi." Actually Rigoletto is the seventeenth of his twenty-eight operas, and represents...

The International Committee for Bird Preservation Fifteen years ago a group of influential bird-lovers, including Earl Buxton, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Lord Rothschild, Dr....

SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The question of recruits for the British Army has been much discussed recently, and various reasons for the " unpopularity of the army " to the average young...

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 letters are given a preference...

of TIM SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. Justice Bucknill in a case last week touched upon possibly the one remaining legitimate grievance of a married woman under English law—for the alleged...

Sra,—In your issue of February 19th you quote from the report of six Anglicans and six Free Church divines on the position of religion in Red Spain. We are assured by these...

evidence adduced by the Rev. Charles King in support of the orthodox view of the personality of Jesus only strengthens my case against it. The appointment of the Twelve has an...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was absent at Tangier when Professor J. W. Harvey's letter appeared in The Spectator of February 19th, in which he derides my " opinion...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. Dyneley Hussey's article on the above subject is one for which loVers of pure singing have been waiting for some considerable time. He...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Thomas Mann, in A Warning to Europe, has been deploring the growth of the herd and its invasion of civilisation. Mr. St. John Mann...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—You may be right in saying that " the surprise expressed 'in Rome that the Emperor of Abyssinia has been asked if he .desires to be...

[To the Editor of Tint SPECTATOR.] SIR,—YOD praise the Finns for the election of an anti-German President and condemn the Germans for their fear of Bol- shevism. Why do you not...

[To the Editor of ME SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read Mr. E. H. Taylor's letter on the subject of "Did England Starve Germany? " He writes : " In my opinion the Germans were starved...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One does not want to multiply demands for relief for Spain, but may I make through your columns a very urgent appeal for the needs of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have just finished reading the text of the new Con-. stitution of the U.S.S.R. The preliminary articles on " The Organisation of...

Percy Harris's article in your issue of February 26th must have aroused widespread interest and indeed concern. I venture to hope that you will allow me the opportunity to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—In order to raise funds for Spanish Medical Aid, the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture is organising a Book...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By J. A. SPENDER SHORT biographies are the fashion of the moment, and if, as I imagine, it was Professor Trevelyan's deliberate choice to keep his Life of...

Savage Civilisation. By Tom Harrisson. (Gollancz. 16s.) Naven. By Gregory Bateson. (Cambridge University Press. ISS.) RECENTLY there has been a recrudescence of interest in the...

By F. H. Brabant, M.A. (Longmans. x5s.) UNTOUCHED ETERNITY MR. BRABANT, who is already well known for some admirable studies in the philosophy of religion, has chosen for his...

Robespierre : First Modern Dictator. By Ralph Korn , old. (Macmillan. x6s.) Talleyrand. - By Comte de Saint-Aulaire. Translated by G. F. Lees and F. J. Stephens. (MacMillan.'...

The Flight of an Empress. By Wu Yung. Edited and transcribed by Ida Pruitt. With an Introduction by K. S. Latourette. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) THE author of this book, a man...

Bolingbroke. By Sir Charles Petrie. (Collins. I2S. 6d.) BoLINGERoiCE -has seemed a hero to some young Tories, though anything less like a hero it would be hard to imagine, for...

MODEST as he was, and intent on preserving materials for the biographies of others, Crabb Robinson would have been surprised to know that his own career would be the subject of...

CAMBRIDGE has known many " honourable women," and among them not a few have been kings' daughters, who in various ways have " exercised authority and have been called...

The Earlier Letters of Gertrude Belt. Collected and edited by Elsa Richmond. (Ernest Bean. f5s.) DURING the War, Gertrude Bell's career as a British official in the East was...

By LOUIS IgacNE ICE Devil Take the Hindmost. By Frank Tilsley, (Seeker and Warburg. 7s. 6d.) One Life, One Kopeck. By Walter Duranty. (Hamish Hamilton. 7s. 6d.) The Other Side....

The Round Table opens with an interesting article on " Crown, Constitu- tion and Commonwealth " in their new relation, and shows in a second article on " The Empire and the...

In Battlefield of the Gods (Allen and Unwin, ios. 6d.) Mr. Kelemen deals with various aspects of the ancient civilisations of Mexico. His object is to rouse interest in the few...

of a Mediterranean cruise from the mass of similar books with similar titles, except. that it is the latest. -For that reason Mediterranean Magic (Jenkins, 8s. 6d.) will have...

a con- tributor to the Imagist Anthology. The smooth iambics of the original, the carefully-wrought choric passages, are reproduced without differentiation by H. D. in a rattle...

Powell The Letters of Robert Blake _(Nasty Records Society, 2Is.) is a . book for which students of naval history will be grateful, and in which general readers will find some...

Mr. de Monfreid blames the English for most of the misadventures which have marred his career as a trader in the Red Sea. " A perfidious and vindictive nation," he calls us, but...

As I suspected, the rarying point for gilt-edged stocks had almost been reached when I wrote last week. Selling ceased- abruptly as soon as " par plus accrued interest " was...

W. J. (Mon.).—You would do better to confine your invest- ments to the larger societies. The fixed trusts are the only medium I would recommend among the others. H. B. K....

FINANCE ON another page will be - found a summary of some of the thief pbints in the speeches of the Chairmen of the London Midland and Scottish and Southern Railways at the...

MARKETS RECOVERING. THE outstanding feature of the early part of the past week in the Stock Markets has been the fairly general recovery in securities led by British Government...

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...

The winner of Crossword No. 231 is Mrs. Warren, 6 Holland Villas Road, W.14.