10 MARCH 1939, page 14

I Learnt That "laatste Niews " Would Be Found On

page thirteen. I turned over the pages hurriedly. There it was. Field-Marshal Goring was about to leave for Italy. " Goring's rustkuur," the paragraph was headed. I read the......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON p OLITICIANS share with theatrical companies the fre- quent disadvantage of travelling on Sundays. Few experiences are more dispiriting. So potent is the......

I Have Learnt From Experience Not To Criticise Domestic...

in other countries. I replied that I knew nothing whatsoever about Monsieur Sudan, but that I hoped that the Belgian Ministerial crisis would be settled without an elec- tion.......

He Began By Telling Me That Democracy Was Doomed....

he explained, no free economy could hope to resist the closed discipline of the totalitarians. The barter system, for instance: did I not regard the barter system as invincible?......

"but What Sort Of Map?" I Asked. "a Map," He

answered ; "which apportions the world between Germany, Italy and Japan." I had heard the same thing that morning from a more authoritative source. I looked at him with surmise.......