27 DECEMBER 1940, Page 5

These shortages are getting serious. Not a razor-blade after January,

I read in one quarter. Hardly an alarm-clock to be had even now, I hear in another. What an appalling vision con- fronts us of millions of bearded Britons, or British beavers— beginning with the Prime Minister—still abed long after the slow sun is up. Wars are not to be won that way. JANUS.