12 APRIL 1940, page 15

Such Quips And Criticisms Are Little More Than Surface...

upon a deeper tide of uneasiness. People are asking themselves whether in fact there are no new cards in the pack and whether this game of musical chairs must continue......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON I T has been strange, both in the House of Commons and outside, to observe the after-effects of the Cabinet re- shuffle of April 3rd. The popular newspapers......

I Can Conceive That Two Alternatives, Two Prepared Lines,...

be necessary. The first necessity will arise when the Germans launch their offensive against our own Army and when the people of Great Britain will realise for the first time......

In My Opinion The Apparent Lack Of Eminence Among The

Government back-benchers is due to subtler and more credit- able causes. In the first place, the more gifted among them are all Socialists at heart, and do not feel for the......

I Find Also That There Exists A Strain Of Defeatism

regarding the capacity of the back-benchers upon the Government side. This apparent dearth of rising statesmen is attributed to two separate causes, neither of which seems to me......

There Are Still Many Cards In The National Pack, And

many discards, which might be used. The tough integrity, the ripe experience, of Mr. L. S. Amery cannot for much longer be disregarded ; Mr. Duff Cooper has returned to us with......

It Is Said, Again, That The Younger Members Of The

Con- servative and associated parties have been subjected in recent years to too stringent discipline upon the part of the Whips. It is true indeed that some (although not all)......

Some Indignation Also Has Mingled With This Merriment....

the House appreciated the promotion of Mr. R. S. Hudson, they would have appreciated it even more if his energy and strong will had been applied to some department other than......