11 APRIL 1941, page 5

A Spectator's Notebook

fil HE Syndics of the Cambridge University Press have taken I a bold step in so far according the aegis of their authority to Basic English as to publish the New Testament in......

Is It Really The Case That In This Salvage-minded Age

there is no use at all for old bottles—medicine bottles, lemon-squash bottles, wine bottles, any bottles? Judging by enquiries I have made in quarters that seemed likely, it......

If, As Is Reported, Dr. Wellington Koo Comes To London

as Chinese Ambassador in succession to Dr. Quo Tai-chi, appointed Foreign Minister of China, diplomatic circles will have considerable compensation for a very real loss. Dr.......

Mr. J. M. Keynes Is Now Working At The Treasury.

So is another Cambridge economist of the Keynes school, Mr. Hubert Henderson (he has, it is true, chosen Oxford in his riper age). It is not surprising, therefore, that Mr.......

The , .veek Of Germany's "barbaric Invasion" Of...

unfortunate moment for the appearance, in the April Conte,„parary, of an article on what the writer, Dr. William dliarbutt Dawson, calls justice, but most people would call in-......

The Appointment Of Mr. H. V. Hodson, Till Lately Editor

of the Round Table, to be Reforms Commissioner in the Govern- ment of India is interesting on various grounds Mr. Hodson, who is only 34, obtains a notable position at an early......

The Widening Conflict

T HE best comment on the latest extension of the war is Mr. Cordell Hull's description of " the barbaric inva- sion of Yugoslavia, the attempt to annihilate that country by......