NEWS OF THE WEEK ' eye-witnesses, the regular Nazi mechanism of victimisa- tion, proscription and persecution is already in operation, is carried one step further by the...

of the whole unhappy Czechoslovakian affair than the attitude of Poland. Mr. Chamberlain in his earlier talks with Herr Hitler endeavoured to keep the immediate issue to the...

the only possible conclusion from the situation in which they find themselves. This week the influential Lidove Noviny, the organ of Presi- dent Benes' party, and until now the...

the conduct of policy in China has once again been increased, by the resignation of General Ugaki from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs. His place has been taken...

con- gratulations on the part he has played in the Munich conversations. For him, however, the most solid satisfaction must be that only by avoiding a general war could he avoid...

M. Daladier in the French Chamber can hardly be taken as proof of the unity of the French people. For it signifies the break up of the Popular Front which for over two years has...

guarantee of the frontiers of the new Czechoslovakia, but the arguments against the participation of this country in any such arrange- ment are conclusive. If there were a...

help of Lord Runciman, not more than two months to settle to its own satisfaction a thousand-year-old conflict between Czechs and Germans. Such speed contrasts strangely with...

make the results of the Munich Conference more calamitous than they are it would be the decision to fight a General Election on foreign policy. There is only one reason for such...

Tuesday was not altogether a happy one. Usually a convincing debater, he overdid the heroics on this occasion. His reference to Czechoslovakia as a State that was inevitably...

has been confined to a few narrow issues. There has been little criticism of what was done at Munich. Mr. Attlee summed up the attitude of the Opposition parties when he...

commands at the moment the support of an overwhelming majority of the electors few people will dispute. Yet an uninstructed observer who listened to the speeches in the House of...

to the life of the Church, if that life is to be strengthened and deepened, when he asked in his presidential address at the Church Congress on Tuesday whether the Church was to...

will, it is hoped, result in an extra year of school life for most children in Elementary Schools all over the country. Many problems arise out of the task of making that year...

TT is a bewildering world. On Wednesday of last A week, September 29th, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons how during his talk with Herr Hitler at Godesberg the latter...

T HE peace brought back from Munich has aroused alarm as well as relief in thinking men ; but whether they rejoice or whether they fear, all are agreed on one point of future...

T HE question whether the B.B.C.'s foreign broadcasts are to be continued appears to be still undecided. The decision rests not with the B.B.C. itself but with higher...

By R. C. K. ENSOR There may perhaps be a value in showing how this remarkably correct forecast was made. It is worth thinking about for the light it may throw on past as well...

By A GERMAN ECONOMIST W ITHIN little more than six months, Herr Hitler has added over ro,000,000 Germans and about 40,000 square miles to the German Reich. He is looming in...

By D. W. BROGAN Yet this view of the importance of American opinion can be attacked. America is not likely to intervene actively in our affairs ; American sympathy, in itself,...

By D. R. GILLIE N O French public man has been given such a welcome since the last War as M. Daladier received on his return from Munich. The crowd in the street was mindful of...

By A "SPECTATOR" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT I UST before the last session of Parliament ended, an d important debate on patent medicines took place in the House of Lords. It was...

By FRANK TILSLEY IN 1914, when the war broke out, I was ten years old. I can remember the day well enough—sunshine, school holidays, the desire to join the Scouts, adult talk...

tribe, Master of the killing gibe, Here is work that none but you Craftsman-like could carry through. When you last observed our earth Statesmen shuddered at your mirth : You'd...

Commonwealth and Foreign FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT O N August i4th Dr. Vladko Matchek, leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, came to Belgrade to confer with the chiefs of...

STAGE AND SCREEN The Proms Tim Promenade Concerts ended last Saturday in an atmosphere of even greater enthusiasm than ever under the stimulus of the thought that we might all...

" Prison sans Barreaux." At the Academy— " Prison without Bars." At the London Pavilion----" Mademoiselle Ma Mere." At the Berkeley IT is said that this is the first time that...

Floriferous Autumn Last week I counted forty-seven blossoms on one small apple tree and buds were opening on the first day of October. Such unseasonable eccentricities are to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—I read Professor Seton-Watson's analysis of Hitler's programme and of Mein Kampf in particular in your last week's issue with great...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a...

[To the Editor of TIM SPECTATOR] SIR,—I should like to add my little quota of congratulations to Mr Chamberlain for the magnificent way in which he has worked unceasingly during...

[To the Editor of TIM SPECTATOR] SIR,—I found it hard last week, as I am sure many others did, to understand how The Spectator, after the line it had taken, could join in the...

SIR,—I had been too busy until this morning to look at the " specimen copy " of The Spectator sent me a day or two ago, and it filled me with amazement and anger at the attitude...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SLR,—Before the memory of recent events grows conveniently dim, will some champion of the National Government provide me with an answer to the...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR] SIR,—It is not too much to say that no action of a foreign government has ever shocked the public sentiment of America so profoundly as...

Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SLR,—The article by Mr. H. Powys Greenwood under the title " We Can No Other," contains an expression of his astonishing belief that " upon the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—May I thank you for the one bit of really amusing satire which the crisis has produced—your article last week called " More Tortured...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—We have seen, in the alternating fears and hopes of last week something which is both new and auspicious in the history of the world. We...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I was very interested in the letter from Miss Cam in your issue of last week. In August I was staying at a mountain resort in Switzerland...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—A plea for Czechoslovakia! This State was established by the Peace Treaty to take over fragments of the defunct Austrian Empire. It did...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—We do not all applaud Mr. Chamberlain. He has released us temporarily from a fear we could have faced courageously, and given us instead...

SIR,—You write : " The jury which awards the next Nobel Peace Prize will hardly need to meet." On the contrary I should think that they would suffer some embarrassment if on of...

SIR,—Herr Hitler has claimed the Sudetenland on grounds of self-determination. Let us offer him a plebiscite in the late German Colonies, the inhabitants, native and European,...

there is no need for the Committee to meet in order to decide the award of the Nobel Peace Prize. But surely there are at least two claimants, one with an even superior claim to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—It is desirable that the position of journalists under the Official Secrets Acts should have the widest possible discussion, but in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—WhO is responsible for the present lamentably weak position of Great Britain ? The answer is Stanley Baldwin. From 1931 to 1937 he was the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—My attention has been called to a note by " Janus " appearing in " A Spectator's Notebook " in your issue of September 3oth, which opened...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—In Japan if you are going to live in a Japanese house it is explained to you that the burglar is dangerous because he is armed. It is best...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] my head—as such things will—three lines from the touching little ballad of the " Three Sailors of Bristol City " : " Said Gorging Jack to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—It appears from a recent announcement that in the event of war householders in the Home Counties will have to provide refuge, whether they...

Essex.

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sm,—Mr. John Sparrow is barking up the wrong tree when, in his article of September 23rd, he attributes to snobbishness the contempt in which...

your publication of my previous letter on this subject, but with reference to your appended editorial comment, I am afraid you have again been misled by the statements made by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sm,—I was surprised to see in The Spectator of September 9th a statement under the heading " Hungary's Land Reform " that, if Rumania were to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,—Mr. Gerald Wynne Rushton's letter on Miracles and the Catholic Church reminds me of a maxim which Dean Swift attributes to Lady Halifax :...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I am making a biographical and critical study of Richard Holt Hutton (1826-1897), essayist and editor of The Spectator. I should greatly...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,—One has heard from_ many lips „during the past critical weeks vehement diatribes against the aeroplane. To those who maintain that the...

[D'un correspondant parisien] L'article qui suit fut &Tit au moment oil tout espoir sembluit perdu. Quolgue &passe par les ivenements, it peut conserver la valeur d'un document,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] _ Sia,—The Spectator has long been my favourite paper, as it stands for ideals of Liberal freedom and understanding. It was therefore a severe...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—In the second paragraph of " A Spectator's Notebook " in yourissue of September 23rd, it is stated that one-tenth of the world's supply of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sm,—During the anxious days of the crisis, hundreds of thousands of British parents have, for the first time in history, been brought face to...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By E. L. WOODWARD AT a time when thousands of voters are unable to give political allegiance to any one political party, and political parties are themselves...

MR. PRINGLE, as it appears, is, or was, a schoolmaster in Jamaica ; presumably a young schoolmaster. Like many other such, he spent his holidays in adventurous travels ;...

Scawen Blunt. By Edith Finch. (Cape. 15s.) THIS exceedingly good book may be called a public, and not a private, Life. Based largely on Wilfrid Blunt's own Diaries, where he...

Martindale. (George Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) THE British Civil Service has many virtues, and one of them is accuracy. Miss Martindale's account of the coming of women into...

The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship. A Study in World Politics, 1898 - 1906. By Lionel M. Gelber. (Oxford Univer- sity Press. 56s.) M. GELBER'S second title reveals his...

Aspects of History. By E. E. Kellett. (Cape. 5s.) WHAT a lot of books are coming out these days about history : a tribute, I take it, to the topical importance of the subject...

Poems. By F. T. Prince. (Faber. 5s.) MR. PangcE's poems have the rare and complex quality that we call distinction. In his patient search for the right word and .cadence, and...

America. By Franz Kafka'. Transl a ted by Edward and Will_ Muir. (Routled g e. 8s. 6d.) THE first in date of Kafka's three g reat novels, America is the least complete. The g ap...

Robert Burns showed a stron g impulse towards auto- bio g raphy in prose. He started two commonplace books, kept a journal when travellin g , wrote a letter to his En g lish...

By GRAHAM GREENE The Death of the Heart. By Elizabeth Bowen. (Gollancz. 8s.) . Days of Hope. By Andre Malraux. Translated by Stuart Gilbert and Alastair Macdonald. (Routledge....

This book (Macmillan, 8s. 6d.) is really two. The first eight chapters are an account of travel in south-western France and Burgundy, supplemented by passages. of reminiscence...

The rapid developments of the Czech problem have neces- sarily outdistanced the monthly reviewers whose articles had to be printed king before the Prime Minister revealed the...

CURRENT LITERATURE By Dorothy Dunbar Bromley and Florence Haxton Britten The authors have approached their problem with " high and truly scientific- standards and ideals," but...

Kuznets This formidable work (Macmillan, 2 rs.) is the first of a series of statistical-economic studies undertaken by the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York, at...

Motor Show Prospects Next week's Motor Show at Earls Court should be well worth seeing, if only half the prophecies we have heard come true. I do not gather that the inevitable...

By CUSTOS HAVING translated its relief at the Munich agreement into a spectacular rally in prices the Stock Exchange is now realising that " as you were " is not necessarily...

THE break in the international crisis directs attention once more to the progress of industry in this country and the publication of the September unemployment figures as at...

By W. R. AYLING Wins the passing of summer and the lengthening of the evening s opportunities for outdoor photography become less frequent. For those blessed with leisure and...