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IN SPAIN

In Paris a wrecker's axe un- earthed 5,000 pieces of gold valued at about 2,500,000 francs | hidden in a wall, with a will, and forgotten since the eighteenth century. Colourfully appropriate, the treasure was, in a building in the Latin Quarter.

In New York workmen de- molishing the old Civic Repertory The policy of appeasement pur-Theatre, where famous stars trod sued by Mr. Chamberlain is un- the boards a generation ago, were doubtedly reaching a critical showered with several hundred stage. For Signor Mussolini has dollars from a floor being remov- as yet done really nothing to ed. Bills and coins that looked give that policy a hope of suc-genuine dropped from above and scattered over the wreckage. In- cess. Suggestions are now ap pearing in the Italian Press that spection revealed that they were the Agreement with Great Britain not stage money, but real.

Evidently the money had been should be brought into force im- mediately, without waiting for a stored in old money bags long settlement in Spain. At the same ago by whom and why can only time, Italian bombers in Spain be guessed. Though the bags are doing their devilish utmost had disintegrated, the money to bring the war to a speedy con-was intact. Each of the work- clusion, and thus to hasten the men shared in the find. day when the Agreement will Though it is a prosaic job, most come into force. The victims of of us are content if we can dig this bombing which has admit-up enough money to pay the rent, tedly quietened since Lord the excess water assessment and Perth's approach in Rome, have the compradore. Yet who can been not only non-combatant civil-say romance has entirely vanish- ians, but also British ships and ed from modern life when hid- British seamen, and it is gener- den treasure shines in the news? ally admitted that the attacks

have been deliberate. The Brit-Wells for Milton ish Government realises the futi- lity of protests, but in spite of

Mr. H. G. Wells is said to be the falsities of the Franco con- tentions, proved false by the re- favourably considering a sugges- connoitring of British ships out- tion that he should step in as side Spanish ports prior to bomb-Milton's deputy. Milton. as every- ing.-has-not-decided on a course one knows, long thought of writ- of action. It has been suggested ing an epic about King Arthur that the Government might con- and the Knights of the Round sider raising the ban on anti-air-Table, but abandoned the plan in craft equipment to the Spanish order to concentrate on "Para- Government as the only effective dise Lost." There seems now a form of protest against the mer-distinct possibility that Mr. Wells

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signatories wrote to the Prime He will follow in distinguished Minister advocating such a footsteps. Tennyson is perhaps policy, among them the Duchess the most notable of his predeces- of Atholl and the Archbishop of sors, his "Idylls of the King" be- York. The suggestion has not ing spoilt, in the midst of much been accepted and Britain is now fine poetry, only by a tendency concentrating its efforts on the to write of Arthur as though he setting up of a commission to were Albert, the Prince Consort. examine individual cases of bom- Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde,” bardment of non-military objec one of the greatest of his operas, tives.

deals with a cognate subject, as

In Spain the Government is does Matthew Arnold's "Tristram fighting for its life as General and Iseult." It is in the latter Franco advances on Valencia. In poem that one gets, more than the early stages of the advance in anything else written since d'Arthur, the the number of casualties on the Malory's "Morte insurgent side is believed to have authentic touch of magic which been very high, but recently Gov is the hallmark of these famous ernment resistance appears to tales of Excalibur, and Sir Lance- have weakened. The insurgents lot, and dim and ancient battles. Whether Mr. Wells is a mas- claim to have Sarrion, which has opened the road to Sagunto, ter of this particular -- atmos- Should the town fall it is likely phere of enchantment remains to be seen. His versatility is that the next insurgent advance amazing. He is equally at home will be on Valencia. Undoubted-with books on politics or religion, ly the struggle for this important sociological novels, or farces, or position will be prolonged, and films, or history. In his early there are few observers who be- astronomical romances he wav lieve that the war will be over ed the magician's wand to some before the end of the year. It purpose. But his magic in those han deceived all the days was that of the conjurer rather than the magic of fairy, King Arthur may give him