19 JUNE 1941, Page 5

I have so often waxed angry over the timid policies

of men like Baldwin and Chamberlain, Simon and Hoare, that I now hasten to pay my tribute to the author of the slogan which, at the time of its invention, filled me with disgust. The Dutch Official Press Agency reports a broadcast talk by Max Blokzijl, the notorious Dutch Nazi, in which he complains that " a great number of Dutchmen now wear a red, white and blue badge on which the words ' Wait and See' are engraved in English." * * * *