T HE record of the fighting in Albania during the last week has been one of continuous success for the Greeks, though the resistance has undoubtedly stiffened. Last week all...

Rumania's submission to Germany has weakened all autho- rity in that country except that which the Nazis choose to support, and there was nothing to check the Iron Guard terror...

The amount of the military help which Britain is giving to Greece has not been fully divulged. In addition to successful fleet actions in the Mediterranean we know that the...

Mr. Hugh Dalton's broadcast to North America last Sunday was an explanation of what is already being done by Britain's economic blockade of Germany and Italy, and of more that...

what she is unable to achieve by arms has acted as a boomerang, the announcement of her treaty with Wang Ching-wei being more than offset by President Roosevelt's promise of...

Spain has many reasons for wanting to keep the war out of the Iberian peninsula, and not the least of them is the fact that it is an urgent necessity for her to import goods...

It was highly probable, said the Home Secretary in the debate on the internment of aliens in the .House of Commons on Tuesday, that among the people interned were many genuine...

Lord Woolton, the Minister of Food, announced at Man- chester last Monday that we shall soon have to submit to fur- ther food restrictions and reduced rations. This is what we...

Milne continued the attack initiated by Mr. Shinwell a week ago. Lord Winterton demanded a greater effort, both at home and in the Colonial Empire, to improve production and...

position of the B.B.C. and our foreign propaganda, and pleaded for greater use of the Allied Governments in our midst. Again Mr. Seymour Cocks, in a well-informed speech, asked...

There are still large numbers of children living in the London County Council area, whose presence demands decisions from the Minister of Health and the President of the Board...

is now admitted that the indiscriminate detention of aliens and also of British subjects under 18B was a mistake. The administrative arrangements made by the various Departments...

war-time was the subject of Mr. J. A. Spender's presidential address to the Institute of Journalists at its annual general meeting. In this country the Press has not suffered...

the Royal Empire Society on Tuesday Air-Marshal Sir Philip Joubert, so well and so favourably known to radio listeners, expressed himself with vigour on the essential...

Our Parliamentary correspondent writes : —The House of Commons has complete confidence in the Prime Minister, in his energy, his capacity and in his leadership. It would not...

rr HE heading of this article should be sufficient to impose a sober restraint on the discussion of war-aims in any detail. Before we can build the peace we have to win the...

book—it is from quite an old one, the " Recollections " of Dr. Forbes Winslow—but it has some merit none the less: " On the completion of his first year of study he [the...

the impulse constantly, against all the demands of the situation. But the persistent and pernicious falsification of values in the news bulletins compels comment almost every...

in Albania only serves to emphasise the rarity of such achieve- ments and the singular difficulty of hitting bridges from the air. So far as I can remember not half a dozen...

to enrich and gratify his people has never materialised, and the money extracted from the workers in advance in payment for the Promised vehicle has been impounded for general...

the news that Mr. Joseph Kennedy is not to return to London as American Ambassador—and American papers are often right. Mr. Kennedy was in some respects an unusual diplomat. On...

I F the B.B.C. has a leg to stand on in the matter of its veto on Sir Hugh Roberton it has very effectively concealed it under its skirts. Because Sir Hugh Roberton, the distin-...

By STRATEGICUS T HE continuing success in Greece and the Mediterranean has so encouragingly proved that we have turned the corner that we can afford to look at our...

By ROBERT POWELL B RITISH press censorship, which has long had its critics in the home field, has recently come in for sharp comment trom foreign correspondents in London,...

By LORD DAVID CECIL T HE trouble with professional historians is that they tend to kill the past. They can hardly be blamed. Their aim is to dissect and analyse a former age:...

ordering 4 ' The Spectator " regularly, since newsagents can no longer be supplied on sale-or-return terms.

By EDWARD SHILLITO W HEN David Livingstone stepped upon the deck of the barque ' George ' on December 8th, 184o, he was a traveller with sealed orders. Africa called him, and...

By A. M. CHIRGWIN HUNDRED years ago—on December 8th, i84o—David Livingstone set out for Africa, where, after a century, his influence abides and the movements he initiated are...

By JOHN PULLEN „ HE Greeks are now fighting like veterans, and the cry, ' To the sea! ' is now being heard on all sides." So wrote a Press correspondent in a recent despatch...

THEY will come no more home to field and byre, Our roads will not see them waiting at the corner for their girl, the beaches watch them stripping for a bathe laughing and...

"North West Mounted Police." At the Cariton.—" The Gay Mrs. Trexel." At the Empire. CECIL B. DE MILLE'S reputation stretches right back to the palmy days of twenty years ago,...

Return to Queen's Hall ONE advantage of fasting is that, when the fast is broken, food tastes twice as good. After two months of complete abstinence from orchestral music,...

including in its wide survey such diverse and important criticisms as those of Mr. Neville Chamberlain and the newly revised edition of the famous Lexicon of Liddell and Scott....

Snt,—May I, as a political observer of no importance but of con- siderable experience, express the great satisfaction I have had in reading what you wrote about Mr. Neville...

and if one result of the war should be a wider representation of different views, it may prove to be a great bl:ssing. Your summary of aims, desired I hope by all parties,...

[In view of the paper shortage 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...

Slit,—Mr. Cleghom Thomson points out that certain well-known preachers holding pacifist views are no longer allowed to broadcast. I should like to draw attention to the fact...

Sta,—From your review of Professor Allison Peers' The Spanish Dilemma he seems to omit one reason which I have thought a very important one as to why Spain has not actually...

to read Dr. W. B. Selbie's stout plea for the study of Greek in times which have seen the slopes of Parnassus swept by a driving hail of evicted Greek and Roman authors. The...

SIR,—I claim no expert knowledge of the British or any other railway system, but I cannot feel that Mr. G. Boyd-Carpenter's letter on " Railways and Raids " in The Spectator of...

Sta,—One of the most attractive finds on walks in childhood in Dorset lanes was the brilliant and exquisite " red-cup," as we used to call it. I have never found it elsewhere,...

SIR, —may I suggest to Mr. Bates that it is a mistake to draw a general inference from a limited experience, and, in war-time, to publish it may easily be a national disservice?...

Stn,—I would like to be among those who express their strong support of " Janus's " contention that the bombing of Rome would be an outrage which we would all be ashamed of when...

SIR,—Perhaps Messrs. Morgan and Procter will kindly inform us why it is that while the farmer gets about one shilling per gallon for milk, the housewife has to pay three...

salvage is greatly to be deplored. What may take place in his village is certainly not the case in many villages with a better sense of patriotism. Mr. Bates suggests that...

has been extremely common all through the days of autumn gales. Its position in relation to the sun, a little to the right, does not seem to vary, and as a forecast of imminent...

Since writing the notes of last week I have tried to check my own previous experiences of birds in raids. On Sunday I was very conveniently bombed, but the only noticeable...

In the garden, among the last roses, the ragged scraps of potentilla and verbena and the wind-tom pansies, Viburnum Fragrans creates a miraculous touch of spring. There is...

Evidence on Birds and Raids At the tune of writing the evidence on birds and air-raids is sea, and unconvincing. A Sussex correspondent observes that "directly the rat-tat-tat...

By the time these notes are read the first of the New Year seed catalogues ought to be in the post. Apropos of vegetable seeds, a correspondent writes to ask for the name of a...

Bihar the Elephant Babar and Father Christmas. By Jean de Brunhoff. (Methuen. 8s. 6d.) WHEN the creator of the Babar books, M. Jean de Brunhoff, died not long ago, the world...

Annals of Innocence and Experience. By Herbert Read. (Faber and Faber. ios. 6d.) Too many autobiographies nowadays are written by uninterest- ing people for uninteresting...

Winston Churchill. By Robert Sencourt. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) IT is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Mr. Sencourt has given us not one, but two books; there is, on...

Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs. Vol. H. Problems of Economic Policy 1918-1939. Part 1. By W. K. Hancock. (Oxford University Press. 1[59.) PROFESSOR HANCOCK'S work is one...

THERE is a danger that this important and extremely timely book may be neglected. For some years past Captain Liddell Hart has been regarded as the expositor of the doctrine...

My First War. By Captain Sir Basil Bartlett. (Chatto and Windus. 3s. 6d.) IF war were only as the pacifists describe it—violent, unjust, horrible, useless—it would have fallen...

The Big Six. Arthur Ransome. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) The Seasons and the Gardener. By H. E. Bates. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.) Caravan Island. By E. H. Young. (Black. 7s. 6d.)...

The Fall of the Idols. By William Ralph Inge. (Putnam. 8s. 6d.) To one who was a colleague in those quiet days when St. Paul's had finished with its reconditioning, and had not...

Nailcruncher. By Albert Cohen. (Routledge. 9s.) Landfall. By Nevil Shute. (Heinemann. 8s.) IF, as Mr. Herbert Read suggests, we are to have a competition for the World's...

(Con- stable. rzs.) THIS is a collection of " private " letters written to America by Mr. and Mrs. Harwood and the replies of their friends, who include Mr. Alexander Woollcott...

respectable modern verse, this one represents less personal taste or critical judgement than a kind of po - tical com- promise. If Miss Jones believes that Mr. Laurence...

La France Libre. (Hamish Hamilton. 2s.) THE Free French movement in Great Britain is already well represented in the journalistic world by the daily paper France, which has now...

Thomas. (Cambridge University Press. 78. 6d.) Andrew Marvell. By M. C. Bradbrook and M. G. Lloyd Thomas. (Cambridge University Press. 78. 6d.) THIS short co - operative essay...

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By CUSTOS AFTER last month's rise in equities gilt-edged are again making the running in Throgmorton Street. Greek successes have pro- vided the political background, and...

RHOKANA CORPORATION INCREASED TRADING PROFIT THE eighteenth annual ordinary general meeting of Rhokana Corpora- tion, Ltd., was held on December 4th, in London. Mr. Franck L....

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