HE victory of the Eighth Army at the Wadi Akarit and its junction with the American force driving westward from El uettar means a substantial step forward towards the desired...

Now that the full details have been divulged of what had already been fairly widely discussed as the Keynes and the White Plans for regulating international currency after the...

King Boris is said to have been a reluctant guest when summoned by Hitler to discuss the position of Bulgaria. He has had ample evidence of the growing unrest in his country,...

. To the notable series of constructive speeches he has recently made Mr. Herbert Morrison last Saturday added another, addressed primarily to the Labour Party, but relating the...

There is a general feeling of confidence among the public that the proceedings of the War Damage Commission are as sure as they arerlbevitably, slow ; though many owners of...

It is revealed by the House of Commons Select Committee on National Expenditure that while the staff employed by the Press Division of the Admiralty consists of go persons, the...

The Catering Bill, after a much-disputed passage, is now through the Committee stage in the House of Commons, and emerges without drastic alterations. Its opponents put up a...

Members of the House of Commons quite properly pressed Major Lloyd George for an explanation of his action in taking over control of the Point of Ayr Collieries, which it ti now...

said Mr. Eden, in his speech to the /11 Canadian Parliament at Ottawa last week, " we see the conception of the United Nations gradually taking place," and he added that this...

3 S NOTEBOOK W HILE it can be well understood that General de Gaulle is impatient over the postponement of his journey to North Africa, it is plain from the latest turn of...

By STRATEGICUS T HE development of the Eighth Army's new attack, with its encouragingly auspicious opening, must exert an important intluence on the year's offensive against...

By PROFESSOR I. M. HE1LBRON, D.S.O.,-F.R.S. MONG the various divisions of Science, chemistry is unique in that it obtrudes itself into every phase of present-day civilisation....

By WILLIAM PATON P ROBABLY there has been no time within our memory when . we in Britain were so keenly aware of the importance and meaning of the Church life of the Continent....

By FRANK SW1NNERTON H ENRY JAMES was born on April 15th, 1843; and his work is probably now less read and less appreciated than it was se any time between 1875, when Roderick...

By HAROLD NICOLSON W E celebrated last week the jubilee of our Protectorate over Uganda ; but the occasion aroused no jubilation in this ,ountry. The King and the Colonial...

"Commandos Strike at Dawn." At the Qaumont and the. Marble Arch Pavilion. — " These are the Men." Generally released. WE are in the middle of a war that can be analysed whilst...

has just issued a pamphlet, full of admirably logical conclusions and distinctions. It has also co-opted a member of the Forestry Commission, and there is a suggestion regarding...

a fact that financial security for every citizen would be impossible if some people were wealthy ; indeed, many of our economists appear to be convinced that the existence of...

views and opinions ds of soldiers once again tempts me to seek space in your columns by in alluding to the first-rate article by your military contributor, n" Strategicus," in...

Sze,—In answer to Mr. H. G. Rawlinson, I may say that I am aware that the Congress leaders are being detained for reasons for security, or what the Government conceives to be...

questions spring to one's mind, indeed, the leader in the News Chronicle of April 2nd suggests that they may disturb more Britishers (not to mention Amcricans) than you appear...

SIR,—Has not Mr. Nicolson been a littk too glib in jumping to the conclusion that Speaker Lenthall was avaricious, a thief, and rather a craven man? It should be remembered that...

SIR,—Sir A. Sinclair on Sunday night, Match 28th, mentioned the names of several well-known men who helped on the Service which; from small . beginnings, is now the mighty...

Stg,—While agreeing with "Five Members of H.M. Forces" that they have been unfortunate in the lectures they have heard, their case must not be taken as typical of Army...

Sta,—I wonder whether " Janus " has verified whether the prominence given to Jewish black-marketeers is not due to the journalistic selection of foreign names, or to the...

Snt,—Mr. Tom Harrisson in an interesting examination of some of the evidence relating to drunkenness, writes that "These results . . . even imply ' fewer public-houses, more...

The Spanish Labyrinth. By Gerald Brenan. (Cambridge Press. 2IS.) THIS rather curious book is divided into three parts, of which the second is so much better than the first and...

The History of the Parson's Wife. By Margaret H. Watt. (Faber and Faber. 6d.) SURELY in no other country of the world has the parish played so important a part as in England....

Weapons and Tactics. By Tom Wintringham. (Faber and Faber. ios. 6d.) The Turning Tide. By Major-General E. D. H. Tollemache, D.S.O., M.C. (John Murray and the Pilot Press. as,...

Singapore to Freedom. By Oswald W. Gilmour. (Burrow. so& 6d.) Tins is a notable book . written tinder the stimulus of adventures the writer left Singapore to risk. The last...

Between Twa.Wars. By J. A. Spender. (Cassell. 8s. 6d.) THIS book, the publishers state, was finished a few days before the writer's death, which means presumably that Mr....

The British Empire : Its Structure and Spirit. By Eric A. Walker. Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. (Oxford University Press. 12s. 6d.)...

The Last of Summer. By Kate O'Brien. (Heinemann. 85.6d.) Ride on Stranger. By Kylie Tennant. (Gollancz. tos. 6d.) The Green Orb. By Chris Massie. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) Mama the...

Fate Has Been Kind. By F. W. Pethick-Lawrence, M.P. (Hutchinson. tss.) AN Etonian, a Fellow of Trinity, and a man of means, Mr. PethickLawrence was One of those young men who...

THE seventy-sixth annual general meeting of Vickers,. Limited, was held on April 2nd at Vickers House, Broadway, Westminster. Mr. A. A. Jamieson (the chairman of the company)...

IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH Tits thirteenth ordinary general meeting of the Lancashire Steel Corporation, Ltd., was held on April znd at Manchester. Mr. John E. James, chairman and...