9 APRIL 1942, page 4

The Appointment Of Sir George Beharrell To Be Director Of

Controls at the Ministry of Supply is an interesting departure, though it is not quite clear yet what the office entails. If precedent prevailed, Sir George, who is chairman of......

I Wonder How' Many Of The Thousands Who Have Been

ento the revival of Mr. Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma had ever h the name Dubedat before. Last Saturday's Times contained report of an inquest on a Mrs. Dubedat, of Hampstead, who......

To Hark Back To Switzerland, That Gallant Republic,...

by German or German-controlled territory, is living under strange conditions. Though in sympathy ninety-nine per cent. pro-Ally (particularly, for various reasons, the......

A Remarkable Career, Possible, I Imagine, Only In France, Is

lined in the last Let tre de la France Libre. Rear-Admiral Gee Thierry d'Argenlieu has lately been appointed High Commiss for Free France in the Pacific. The new High......

A Spectator's Notebook

D IPLOMACY, political warfare, Ministry of Information, B.B.C. —the vast, sprawling (necessarily sprawling, no doubt) appara- tus constructed for presenting British policy and......

The Fate Of France

announcement that the United States is to resume ship- eats to North Africa is an indication that Vichy has assurances which Washington regards as, temporarily at satisfactory.......