19 JUNE 1941, Page 5

The Axis Powers are very angry about the recent St.

James's Palace meeting of the Allied representatives. " This circle of ghosts " holding their " death dance on the ruins of a shat- tered world," was the way in which the German radio referred to it, and the Rome radio called Mr. Churchill " an old rogue entering his dotage." They have some reason to be angry, for the meeting has forestalled one of their own at which all the quislings of the slave states will be expected to assert their joyful acceptance of Hitler's New Order. The St. James's meeting should be the first of many. Any speech by any of the exiled statesmen doubtless provides useful material for B.B.C. broadcasts to his country. But these speeches would be infinitely more effective, in America as well as in Europe, if they were delivered at meetings of an Inter-Allied Parliament.