THE' closing words of an article by General Ternperley in Wednesday's Daily .Telegraph—" Can the Italian. army win, the war before sanctions. lose it ? Effective petrol...

is in some respects a set-off to the drastic methods preferred' by General Doihara and the Japanese soldiers in regard to the so-called autonomy movement in Northern China. For...

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that is right there is a trialism that is clearly wrong. A phrase, already used more than Once by Sir Samuel Hoare, made its appearance in the Ding's Speech on Tuesday, when...

M. Laval has survived the opening stages of the dis- cussions in the Chamber on finance, securing 324 votes to 247. His fate in the division on the control . of the political...

'The Five-Power: Naval Conference opens in London on Monday. On its prospects no high hopes are set anywhere. Yet its failure may have the gravest consc- . quences, both...

The case for National Parks,' or any other f(win of preservation of open spaces, in this country is over- whelming, and it is 'difficult to contest the cOnclUsion, reached by a...

By a display of wisdom, courage and generosity too rare in the .rulers of .States,, King. George of Greece has laid what should be sound and enduring foundations- of stable...

An important application for a reduction in tariffs under the terms of the Ottawa Agreement is being heard at Ottawa by . the Canadian Tariff Commission. The Lancashire cotton...

The ultimate crisis in the German Evangelical Church in Germany has been impending so often that there is some excuse for doubting whether even now it has finally arrived. But...

much more lively affair. It began with a maiden speech frorri Mr. A. P. Herbert, who took the unusual - course for new Member of intervening on a question of routine. business...

sur- prises me most about' the new House of Commons is the lifelessness of the Labour Opposition. After all, the, little band in the last Parliament has been strengthened by...

China Clipper ' across the Pacific is a portent of which we do well to take some note. Isolation always has been, and to a large extent still is, the keYnote of American foreign...

the important report of the Archbishops' Conmiission on the Ministry of Wonien is the note by the Dean of St. Paul's, in which br. Matthews states iii vigorous language his...

Mr.' Wakefield: who had the very difficult task 'Of moving the Address, made some good points which' were 'beauti fully phrased and lit up with some excellent • flashes of...

T HE King's Speech has only one paragraph which could not have been foretold from the Government's Election Manifesto. The Speech is, in fact, the Parliamentary expression of...

P RESIDENT MASARYK is resigning the office • bestowed on him by the unanimous acclamation of his people seventeen years ago. In him there passes from • the forefront a. the...

conventional to draw a fundamental distinction between them. Sir John Squire and Mr. T. S. Eliot and all those other eminent people who are writing to The Ti»zes about cheeses...

his brief appearance in Vicky at the Carrick, in spite of the Solemn protest lodged by the German Embassy. There have been historic examples (notably of course the case of The...

J. H. Breasted, " of an undefinable malady," is duly recorded in relation to the legendary curse on all who violated • a Pharaoh's tomb.. It is true that the mortality among the...

over the Canadian Government's state- ment about the coal-and-oil resolution.. at _Geneva is as devoid of content as a pricked bubble.. Whether the Canadian delegate proposed...

TNTERNATIONAL cricket has for some reason sent 1. more men to the House of Commons than interna- tional football (Alfred Lyttelton and F. S. Jackson come at once to mind), but...

in Washington in 1921, one in London in 1930. At the first, incidentally, I was sitting next to William Jennings Bryan, who had descended or ascended from polities to...

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By WALTER DURANTY I S the U.S.S.R. reverting to bourgeois habits and methods, and, if so, what is the social and political significance of this change ? • In last week's article...

By PROFESSOR C. D. BROAD * I HAVE been asked to write the introductory article of a series dealing with Psychical Research. In each subsequent article of the series one...

By DR. RUDOLF KIRCHER, Editor of the " Frankfiirter Zeitung " W HEN I was staying in London, in November, every one of the many conversations I took part in ended, or even...

By J. R. GLORNEY BOLTON W ITHIN a few weeks of each other there have recently appeared lives of Charles Gore and. Randall Davidson. The era during which these two old Har-...

By EDWARD SHILLI TO T HE Christian Year begins with Advent. . It begins • ..with a remembrance of the End. Before we see the, acts one by one we look: swiftly ,at the end of the...

By GRAHAM GREENE T HE Liberian launch, lying beyond the bar off Grand Bassa, was making its maiden voyage down the coast from Cape' Palmas to Monrovia. It cannot have been more...

By MONICA ,REDLICH A LADY in a recent divorce case complained that her husband did not respect her. " He called me a kitten." It was very sad. There was (we may be certain) a...

• The Theatre .. '5` Storm Song." - By Denis Johnston. At the A. D. C. Theatre, Cambridge FOR the last thirty-five years; Ireland has maintained a scarcely challenged...

"La Bandera." At the Curzon.—" Woman Tamer." At the . Leicester Square.—" Come Out of the Pantry." At the London Pavilion THE camera swin g s down from the night sky above the...

[D'un correspondant parisien] " A SAINT-LAZARE . . . " Qui n'a entendu, sur un ton lugubre, fredonner ce triste refrain d'une complainte realiste, laquelle fut jadis celebre...

Rococo Os Wednesday Sotheby's were privileged to sell one of those collections which one regrets to see scattered, bedause it was clearly forMed by taste and insight, and not by...

Another little incident of the week in natural history may be worth recording. An ardent student of birds was walking aciess a Lilt of rough, rather marshy ground not so far...

of the English garden that it can induce plants from the mountains even of Asia and Europe to flourish on the plain. Our rock, or scree gardens, to use a phrase growing into...

Is it general, or is it a peculiarity of one place, that the hedge- hogs, those queer nocturnal hibernating animals, have bred families in the late autumn ? Two...

' This is the true story of a bird that willingly exchanged freedom for captivity. A doctor in a Home County keeps a few birds in cages that are large enough to be called...

wren to the hawk (though there is a legend that the wren won the kingship of birds by settling on the eagle's back). A more or less new threat against the biggest and finest of...

Hired Cows A much advertised change in farming finance is likely to stir a new and national effort towards the provision of cheap credit to farmers ; and the reasons for the...

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readers are feeling the shame that is expressed by the Rev. A. Herbert Gray in his letter relating to the injustice of the underpayment of the miners. The history of the coal...

of last week on the coal situation is timely and challenging. You get right down to the root of the matter when you say : " The application of a long term policy of...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Bath Corporation Bill dealing with this matter has now appeared. It is an elaborate measure running to 75 pages and is concerned...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Your Oxford Correspondent " should be told that his remarks on Mr. Herbert's election to Parliament are offensive, not only to Mr. Herbert...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In the dedication of his great gifts to Ireland and to humanity A.E. left in his lifetime memorials more enduring than any monument which...

plain that neither Mussolini not any other nation can hope to succeed in warlike action. If anythin g can be calculated to strengthen the determination of nations pandering war,...

[To the Editor of THE Smc.r.vroal Snt,—I have recently undertaken to write the. story . of Winifred I-Ioltby's life and work, and I should be grateful if I• might ask your...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIII,--Your Parliamentary Correspondent refers to the fact that private Members get so few, chances of taking any effective part in the...

By CATHERINE CARSWELL BUTLER began to annotate this correspondence immediately after Miss Savage's death, and he finished the pious work Some fifteen years later under the...

Greek Ideals . and Modern Life. By Sir R. W. Livingstone. ' (Oxford University' Press. as.) ' ' IF the President of Corpus, true humanist that he is, did not despise the uses...

The Life and Times of St. Ambrose. By F. Homes Dudden, D.D. (Clarondon Press. 35s.) Visnrons to the great basilica of S. Ambrogio in Milan may enjoy, for a small fee, a...

Mit, THOMPSON opens his history with history of the histories of Robespierre ; and it is curious to watch how mankind, like every single man, throws the shadows of later...

The House : A Machine for Living In. By Anthony Bertram. (Black. 5s.) " PROBABLY no saying of our day has been nliore generally misunderstood than Le Corbusier's definition of a...

Samuel Pepys The Years of Peril, By Arthur Bryant. .(Cam- bridge Uzdvorsity Press, • 12s. 6d.) ; . 'rim is an excellent book : quietly written, yet exciting ; learned, but. not...

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M.D. (Geoffrey A Romany Life. By Gipsy Potulengro. (Methuen. 10s. Bd.). THE flood of autobiographies is inexhaustible. From the four corners of the world they come. In the...

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Hubert's Arthur. By Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo. (Cassell. 10s. 6d.) THE latest work of Frederick Rolfe to be brought into print by Mr. A. J. A. Symons is a laborious...

By WILLIAM PLOMER Holy Ireland. : By Norali Hoult. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) Holy Ireland I take to be the ^most remarkable , novel . Miss Norah HOult has yet 'written: The title is...

Kierkegaard's life and religious teaching (Student Christian Movement Press, 4s. Bd.) follows on the heels of the hook 'on the same subject by Mr. E. • L. Allen reviewed in...

PREHISTORIC MAN IN IRELAND by Cecil P. Martin . . Professor Martin has carried out a • study (Macmillan, 210.) which is a good deal more fascinating than the title might...

Wright's biography of Dickens (Herbert Jenkins, 18s.) may be described without serious inaccuracy as the labour of a lifetime. He started to write it, he. tells us, after...

Tim consequences of the League's action against Italy form the dominant theme in this month's reviews. The Round Table emphasises the uncertain effect of such economic sanc-...

in - which he deplored the continued high accident-rate but gave it as his responsible opinion that the public has now grown traffic-conscious, was preceded by stories in the...

MARKET S IRREGULAR, Ting Stock Markets as it whole have; during the past • week, been somewhat under the influence of what is generally described as the " Sanctions " crisis....

The 'L30b,00p,000 Loan UNDOUBTEDLY, the outstanding feature of the past week has been the announcement of a Government Loan for £300,000,000. I am aware that before this article...

• TRADE IN SCOTLAND. I commented recently in these columns upon the excellent character of the annual Report of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and at the annual meeting, presided...

Quite an outstanding feature in the Industrial Market has been the good result announced by Crompton, Par- kinson, Ltd., the electrical manufacturers. The report showed a rise...

The profits of the Aerated Bread Company for the past finanCial year were excellent, establishing, in fact, a new record for the Company. The amalgamation of the business of...

Tim NEW GOVERNOR. Needless -. to, ,say, Mr. Maitland, before proceeding to the business of the day, referred to the great loss the Bank had sustained in the death of the Duke...

It was generally anticipated that Tobacco Securities Trust would show a diminution in earnings and, as a matter of fact, the net profit was only 2527,103, against .2758,409: A...

• MONEY MARKET. Is the Foreign Market; 'Spanish Stock has fluctuated materially. Iii the early part .of the week, the favourite intelligence received from Madrid, and .firm...

There was a point in Mr. Andrew Williamson's address to shareholders of the English, Scottish and Australian Bank, Ltd.--a report of which appeared in the last issue of The...

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