spite . of losses wholly disproportionate to their achievements 1 the enemy have continued to make daylight raids during the past week. The mass attacks have been broken up...

The report that five Generals who were among the Italian mission to Syria have been recalled in disgrace and their place taken by more conciliatory delegates lacks confirmation,...

Minister of the Interior, after conversations with Hitler, Ribbentrop and Count Ciano no in Berlin, has visited Rome and explored the situation further with Count Ciano and...

The shipping losses reported on Wednesday are formidable. The average weekly loss of British shipping for the first year of war was about 30,000 tons. In the week now reported...

Last Friday two Special Commissioners were appointed by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Home Security for the London Region—one, Sir Warren Fisher, to deal with the...

The deep disappointment expressed in the United States at the failure of General de Gaulle's expedition to Dakar is it- self some measure of the higher expectations of British...

The arrest, on no specified charge, of five British subjects in Rumania (one of them a woman), their brutal maltreatment in prison, and the evasion of Rumanian Ministers when...

It is really very difficult to deal with Mr. Gandhi. Lord Halifax managed it when he was Viceroy, but his successors have found the task baffling, as is not surprising when it...

in my opinion it should be Mr. Herbert Morrison. Then he should have on his staff Admiral Evans to take charge of shelters, Mr. Willink to deal with homeless and evacuation, Mr....

I hope that the Ministry of Health will take speedy action over rent, that the Board of Education is planning night and day the best ways of keeping education alive, and that...

like a Commissioner for the whole London Region. When he has seen with his own eyes the main lines of the problem, he should work with a map, telephones and runners, and give...

London Members to meet the Chief Commissioner, Capt. Euan Wallace, Mr. Willink and others. This is not the first time that regional Members have met their Regional Com-...

him and all wish him well. He was recently introduced as the new Member for Croydon, and was flanked on either side as he walked up the aisle by two Under-Secretaries and...

destruction of private property by enemy action are revealed in the circular sent by the John Lewis Partnership to their members regarding the bombing of their shop in Oxford...

Sleeping accommodation, sanitation, and heating are not the v requirements in shelters. Food is equally important. It s to be remembered that many people will have come urriedly...

From our Parliamentary Correspondent: There is no precedent for the present situation, and therefore it is little use quoting the ordinary rules. Parliament ought to meet this...

next week in circumstances for which there is no parallel in its previous history. There are members of the Labour Party holding leading positions in a non-party Government, and...

T HE new order which Germany, Italy and Japan are to join in establishing in Europe and Asia is in truth the oldest of all old orders, the tyranny exercised by those who think...

serious thought to the immensely important question how London is to order is life a month hence, when summer-time ends, and the black- out begins at four o'clock in the...

where his cows grazed, but which was less useful than it might have been • because it was waterless. A few days ago the Germans dropped a bomb there, which most conveniently...

has dwindled to almost nothing, solicitors, at any rate, are being kept much busier than usual over one not very lucrative activity, the making of wills. The reasons are...

given the George Cross it is entirely right and fitting that (together with • one of his magnificently courageous staff) he should be the first recipient of it.. Such an award...

should be called in to reinforce certain of the more heavily overstrained defence services multiply. A writer in T he Times, I see, proposes that soldiers be detached for the...

a poet who belonged less to any particular epoch or generation than Illy other writer I have known. His vagabond existence as a Young man gave him the hard, gritty experience...

By S TRATEG ICUS I T is now recognised that we have reached the end of a phase of the air-war, and it is difficult to escape the conclusion that it was a major phase of the war...

By ERWIN D. CANHAM [This article was written before the pact between Germany, Italy and japan was announced] By Air Mail D ESPITE the energy of Mr. Wendell Willkie's campaign,...

By MAJOR-GENERAL J. F. G. FULLER V OLTAIRE was born in 1694 and he died in 1778 ; there- fore he lived throughout the early years of the steam age. Yet it does not appear that...

By E. M. FORSTER CILILTIVATED people, such as read or write The Spectator, U are a drop of ink in the ocean. They mix easily and even genially with other drops, for those...

By DAVID THOMSON T HE material advantages of the new Pact between Germany, 1 Italy and Japan are so intangible and dubious that it may best be regarded as the measure of Nazi...

My postbag is continually illustrating the old dictum that out of Africa is always coming something new and strange. Here is the latest: a small rough-skinned lizard of the...

Many of us do not remember to have seen quite such complete gossamer days as befell last week. As you walked, soft, almost invisible, wisps of silk stroked your face. You...

A very real addition to the beauty of the garden at this date is that more or less recent discovery, the dwarf Michaelmas Daisy. It has been advantaged by a number of new...

Harvest Festivals The Harvest Festivals, celebrated most aesthetically in country c hurches, have taken on some likeness to the festivals of an ear lier century, when the folk...

The Mortal Storm." At The Empire. HERE is the purely sentimental approach to Nazism; the impact of Hitler's regime is presented in terms of the individuals of a prosperous and...

Sta,—Douglas London lets your readers draw the correct inference. The author of "An Anzac in England," which appeared a fortnight ago in The Spectator, self-confessedly is the...

In view of the paper shortage it is essential that letters on these pages should be brief. We are anxious not to reduce the number of letters, but unless they are shorter they...

SIR, —You printed in your issue of September 6th, under the heading of " The Overseas Broadcasts," a letter from Mr. C. K. Crookshank of Tongshan, North China. You did not, I...

should very much like to believe what Mr. Soren says about France's food position. He seems to be arguing from statistics which were drawn up in 1939, and I have reason to think...

Sta,—I would like to thank you for Mr. Kenneth Lindsay's excellent article entitled "London Defiant! " It is as true that Londoners are bearing their hardships with courage and...

SIR, —Your correspondent " Janus " discusses the question of what our air-bombing policy should be and whether this could be adapted to reduce air attacks on London. I suggest...

contained the following paragraph re the effect of London on the average Australian man: "He finds the people careless and dirty, and venereal disease prevalent, and beyond a...

Stw,—Can I assume that an association appealing for funds through the advertisement columns of The Spectator is known to be a reputable body? There are many appeals now, more...

Britain's Economic Achievement English Economic History : Mainly since 1700. By C. R. Fay. (Heifer. 5s.) English Economic History : Mainly since 1700. By C. R. Fay. (Heifer....

UNDER the title Sea Power the writer revives a very old and no less vital problem, a problem partly political and partly strategical. " What really determines the policy of this...

Calico Pie. By C. E. Vulliamy. (Michael Joseph. vas. 6d.) " MEMORY," says Mr. Vulliamy, " is a fountain of cheerfulness, perhaps immortal " ; and, if it be true that the essence...

MANY people lying at night on a cement floor in the company of total strangers must catch themselves dreaming of some other period of history in which they would prefer to have...

Under the Rose. By Rhys Davies. (Heinemann. 9s.) Bewildering Cares. By Winifred Peck. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) The Wonderful Journey. By Frank Tilsley. (Collins. 8s.) IN...

The Last Days of Paris. By Alexander Werth. (Hamish Hamilton. 8s. 6d.) THE collapse of France in June, 1940, is an event which will deeply affect all. our lives. The France...

By CUSTOS APART from a momentary shudder, markets have been quite unmoved by the conclusion of the new Axis Pact. Most people had already prepared themselves for this formal...

ALLIED INDUSTRIAL SERVICES, LIMITED THE sixth annual meeting of the members of Allied Industrial Services, Limited, was held on September z7th at Netherwood Cham- bers,...

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