11 OCTOBER 1940, page 5

From An Englishman In America : " X [a Well - Known

American] writes to me ' Why should England need propaganda when the English behave as they do? This shipload of tor- pedoed children singing in their nighties will bring down......

This Week's Statistics Of The Sinkings Of British And Allied

merchant ships fortunately lend support to the belief that last week's black total was exceptional. Then, it will be remem- bered, no less than 131,857 tons of British shipping......

The Imperial Policy Group Shows Signs Of Some Deficiency In

the robustness which one would naturally associate with its name. Its October memorandum on foreign affairs begins with the intimation that " we have felt it necessary to......

Great Position As The Mastership Of Trinity Is—the...

shculd say, in either university, though I am not a Trinity roan myself—Trinity is even more to be congratulated on securing Professor G. M. Trevelyan as Master than Professor......

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Almost everyone, I imagine, wants to see summer-time not merely extended to some time in November, but made perma- nent " for the duration." But that will be a long way from......

A Word More On The Co-operation Of The Military In

A.R.P. work. Desirable as this is (as I have contended in this column lately) on general grounds, there appears to be one unlooked-for obstacle. Trade unionists are reluctant to......

A Spectator's Notebook

N O one is surprised at the translation of Sir Cyril Newall from the position of Chief of the Air Staff to the Governor-Generalship of New Zealand. Needless to say, the move is......

Facing Winter

a M R. CHURCHILL has recast his administration, and Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini have met in con- ference on the Brenner. There is no direct connexion between the two......