10 AUGUST 1944, page 4

August Is Said By Epicures In The Appreciation Of Landscape

to be the dullest month in the cycle of the English seasons. I have never found any month or week or day in England dull or without novelty, and I could prolong indefinitely......

In This Time Of Destruction It Is A Relief To

know that Mont St. Michel has not shared the fate of Monte Cassino. The four Germans left on the mount appear to have surrendered to one French- man and an American war......

Meantime, While Terrorism In Germany Is Increasing Its...

action, we in England are being threatened with "V2," and so forth, in the familiar German " turn-of-the-screw " methods, one wonders whether there are many Germans who realise......

A Few Weeks Ago I Watched Some Men Putting Up

scaffolding and platforms above the sea on a western bay. I was told that this work was being done on behalf of the Ministry of Information in order to get sea photographs for a......

A Spectator

'S NOTEBOOK E VEN before 1914 the " honour " of the German army had been brought to a low level by the officer corps ; in great affairs the General Staff had accepted a plan of......

At Long Last Some Members Of The Officer Corps Have

turned against Hitler—not for reasons of "honour," but merely because they have seen immediately before them the ruin of Germany. And now, at Hitler's orders, " honour " is......

If One May Judge By Long Press Summaries, The Report

on post- war university education issued under the auspices of the British Association seems a curious document. The British Association is doubtless competent to deal with......

Liberation And Security

URING the last week the war in the West has reached a stage where the fighting there is comparable, in character if t in extent, with the fighting in the East. No longer......