10 OCTOBER 1941, page 10

I Have Frequently Been Disheartened To Observe That The...

public do not apply to the great issues of foreign policy, or to the processes and results of diplomacy, that good ' sense which they apply almost instinctively to domestic......

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE Ministry of Information, with the ready assistance of the local authorities, is arranging this autumn for a series of lectures to be delivered in......

These Solid And Formative Results Of British Diplomacy W Not

obtained either by menace or by guile. These op* covenants, these pledges of power, derive from the experience of centuries. Mr. Churchill and Mr. Eden have been 105 11 to the......

Of The Many Topical Fallacies Which Dim The Public Mind,

there is one which I have met with this week and which leaves me aghast. There appears to be a legend,, creeping as a wisp of fog throughout the country, that in some manner......

How Are We To Teach Our Public To Acquire, In

regard to foreign policy, a reasonable habit of thought? To my mind the con- fusion into which we have fallen is largely due to the fact That the ordinary man and woman has not......

I Recall That At The Time Of The Abyssinian Crisis

of 1935 1 received from one of my constituents a post-card on which were written the words: "Surely the Government must realise that what the people of this country want is the......