W HILE dates in themselves matter little, it is of auspicious omen that the agreement between Great Britain and the United States should have been announced on the first day of...

T HE speech Herr Hitler made in Berlin on Wednesday was devoted to preparing the German people for the prospect of a second winter of war. It contained much bombast, many lies,...

The R.A.F. has continued its astonishing record of success against the German massed daylight air-raids. The first of these raids was on August 6th, and from then until the end...

The decision of French Equatorial Africa and Gaboon, as well as the mandated territory of the French Cameroons (which adjoins the British Cameroons), to follow the example of...

The vote cast by the South African House of Assembly en Saturday on General Hertzog's " peace with Germany " motion . shows that General Smuts has not merely maintained his peg'...

The campaign of violent and baseless recrimination which Italy launched against Greece in the month of August, was recognisable as the regular prelude, under the Axis technique,...

The opportunist neutrality of King Carol has landed Rumania in a lamentable position. For nine months of the war she sat on the fence—guaranteed by the democracies (with the...

The more the question of interned aliens is examined the more numerous are its unsatisfactory features seen to be. Perhaps the most serious of all mistakes is the lack of any...

The position of people whose homes are damaged by air raids is thoroughly unsatisfactory, and calls for very early amend- ment. At present, unless there is lack of housing...

The latest unemployment figures are puzzling, not to say disquieting. At a time when every person's effort is needed there remain about 80o,000 unemployed, including over...

In his speech on the anniversary of the war Mr. Eden em- broidered with much rhetorical ornament a thesis which had been set forth in a broadcast not many days earlier by...

Overshadowed though it is by the greater satisfaction which the decision regarding the American destroyers provokes, there is a substantial, though a lesser, satisfaction to be...

W E have this week passed from the first to the second year of war; and in weighing its possibilities it is well to remember always that the Prime Minister is think- ing and...

priced at tenpence a pound ; in a Kentish market forty-six pounds of selected Victorias are sold for eighteenpence. Again in Kent the average price for Czars has been...

CANADIAN soldier to whom I gave a lift on Sunday re- minded me of something I ought to have commented on ore—the extent of the debt that the whole Commonwealth es to Mr....

damage in this country that a message by the well-known American journalist, H. R. Knickerbocker, to his New York papers, quoted in Wednesday's Daily Express, is of particular...

the death of Lord Rutherford, and he has been verY distinguished Master of Trinity. Wide though his interests were he had in some respects the scientist's one-track r niod. A...

lumps, have special reason to deplore the death of Christopher obhouse, killed in action at the early age of thirty. The uthor of works of high merit on Charles James Fox and on...

paper France, but pressure on space forbade. Nothing is more essential than that the growing French community, military and civilian, in Great Britain should have a paper which...

By STRATEGICUS M R. EDEN warns us that Hitler has not abandoned his intention to seek a quick decision in the only possible way—by invading Britain ; and that timely warning...

By PROF. D. W. BROGAN I N the great debate over American foreign policy that is raging in America, an increasingly prominent role is being played by the Committee for Aid to...

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

By RENk CASSIN* y F Britain's victorious resistance to German air attack is the I most important event of the last two months, there is another which fully deserves to be set...

your letter and wonderful fat bundle of Spectators reached me. I appreciated the Spectators tremendously, and have read them from cover to cover. T".! left behind for other...

war waged in the interests of different ideologies, the present conflict affords those serving in our armed forces surprisingly few opportunities for intellectual exercise. The...

facts can have been collected, the Nazi news machine flashes out to the world the fantastic story of another British defeat in the air, British planes destroyed by the hundred,...

By OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT T 0 some extent, varying with physical and temperamental make-up, occupation, age, and of course, local geography, a considerable proportion of...

New War Pictures THE exhibition at the National Gallery of paintings and drawings by official war artists has been re-hung and some additions hare been made to it. It looks...

THE extreme beauty of our Augustan nights has been enhanced, though disturbed, by the patterns of searchlights. The small units of men who direct these from many a quiet field...

...Br. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet." A the Warner. — " Tom Brown's Schooldays." At the New Gallery. 15 this column last week certain remarks, which might be r egarded as...

England been more strongly pronounced. The corn has been cut and carried in the South, and, more than this, a very large amount of ground has been ploughed. The ploughs have...

A distinguished man of science is engaged in an endeavour to grow potatoes from cuttings of the haulm and thus not only to save seed, which is always expensive, but prevent...

among vine-growers) have a special reputation among observers of birds. They seem to promote migration, which incidentally is a better word than evacuation. It is stated in the...

is a mistake to prune apple trees, a correspondent asks whether other fruits benefit by the neglect of attention. Pruning is of course a nice art. If it is not done very well it...

Slit,—At the end of May I brought my two-year-old daughter back to safety in my native America, leaving my British husband in London to do what he could toward winning the war....

cling to faith and stubbornly refuse to accept changed conditions. This would sound funny if it did not have tragic consequences in po t : In a letter in your columns last week...

SIR,—The British Government has again led the Congress horse to the water, but it still refuses to drink. All India, Congress, Moslems and Princes alike, views with detestation...

[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...

Sus,—The Archbishop of Canterbury's statement that he believes s ome people may be called to be pacificists raises a difficult moral problem, but I believe there are strong...

bishops have recognised in the superficially contradictory statement which Dr. Matthews deplores, is itself a large part of the Christian pacificists' dilemma. It is this...

SIR, After consulting twelve reputable dictionaries, two encyclo- • paedias, the large technical English-French French-English dictionary (Bellows') and the recognised leading...

that the dictum of the Archbishops, as it stands, is unintelligible. Pacificism, in the ordinary use of that term, means the view that it is always wrong to take the part of a...

they have a difficult job on hand, to square war with the recorded teaching of Jesus, and they do it with real skill. But I think Dr. Major does seri- ously overrate the power...

or the Church, or even the Dean himself, have absolute knowledge of the Nature of God he is bound to admit that the Spirit of God is ever seeking to lead us into fuller...

Sta,—In your issue dated August 23rd, Dr. Shackleton Bailey drew attention to the privileged position accorded to farmers in the matter of income-tax assessment. He pointed out...

Sm,—France must bear the sole responsibility of her surrender. Let us use her—if we must—as " a warning and an example," to quote one of your correspondents, but is it fair—or...

Stit,—Most of us are agreed that it is desirable to safeguard our children from the danger and horror of war. And all the good reasons for removing English children from the...

from " Soilless Gardening " is shown by Sir Albert Howard in his Agricultural Tes- tament to be well founded. One learns that not only the plant but also the soil must live if...

your issue of August 23rd ought not to pass unanswered, as it is both unfair to the farmer and most inaccurate. There are two statements which call for a reply. One is that...

Sm,—In last week's issue of your paper " Janus " states that the popu- lation of the world is about two billion. According to Chambers's dictionary a billion is " a million or...

SIR,—Surely, Sir, " Tenby " in your last issue misses the whole point of my letter—which was: How does one meet such a situation as I described? I was not complaining. The...

SIR,—I wonder if you would pass on that remark of Mr. Churchill's administered to a not very distinguished M.P. who was making a nuisance of himself with irrelevant and...

a poem entitled " Britain " (not to be found in his collected works), wrote a stanza that will, I feel sure, be welcomed by your readers in this hour strife in " the valley of...

penny bits in Edinburgh is explained by the existence of a large Roman Catholic element in the population of that city. He would probably encounter an even larger number in...

HERE is a really important book, small and readable, that should make layman and expert understand this war better. The record of the Editor of the Economist for enlightening...

IF there is anything to be said against the shorter poems of Hardy it is that they tend to leave the reader dispirited with life. He has been blamed for a monotonous note of...

India: The Little More Enlist India for Freedom. By Edward Thompson. (Gollancz. 2S. 6d.) No one who thinks—and we have to think harder, more clearly and resolutely than at any...

MR. WILLIAM TEELING, trayell-i, journalist and prospective Conservative candidate, has assembled thirteen contributors to give their views on Britain and Europe after the war....

Country and Town in Ireland Under the Georges. By Con- stantia Maxwell. (Harrap. as.) TRINITY COLLEGE, Dublin, makes full contribution to national purposes. Professor Curtis has...

as. 6d.) SINCE the beginning of the war, publishers have found the economics of their trade so difficult that most of them have given up the publication of books of verse, and...

1848: Chapter. of German History. By Veit Valentin. (Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) DR. VEIT VALENTIN'S massive and indispensable history of the German Revolution of 1848 is well...

MR. C. S. FORESTER'S novels are based securely on accurate knowledge of his subject-matter, but he stands out from the realist by the imagination with which he interprets his...

GREAT UNIVERSAL STORES, LTD. THE twenty-second ordinary general meeting of the Great Universal Stores, Ltd., was held on August 30th last at the Institute of Chartered...

By CUSTOS ON the investment, as on the military front, the first year of war has been full of surprises. Who would have predicted in September, 1939, that after twelve months...

THE WELLMAN SMITH OWEN ENGINEERING CORPORATION DISTRIBUTION OF 12; PER CENT. MAINTAINED THE twenty-first ordinary general meeting of The Wellman Smith Owen Engineering...

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