12 JANUARY 1940, page 6

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I hope the suggestion made by M. Giraudeux and sup- ported by Dr. Ernest Barker for the issue of an Anglo-French postage stamp is not going to be lost sight of. Symbols mean a......

A Spectator's Notebook

O NE reason why a se:-tion of the Press, particularly the Sunday papers, ransacked the universe for explanations of Mr. Hore-Belisha's resignation was that their editors pretty......

I Hear Of A Very Interesting Move Made By That

valuable and enterprising body, the Rockefeller Foundation in America, which has initiated a project for the recording and documentation in film form of the social impact of the......

Wednesday Of This Week Marked An Anniversary Which, So Far

as I have seen, no one in the Press noticed. Perhaps they had no heart to ; perhaps they forgot. On January loth, 1921:I—just twenty years ago—the Treaty of Versailles came into......

Australia Parts With Her Best Men Rather Lightly, But...

she does wisely in sending her best to represent her abroad. We are fortunate in having an ex-Prime Minister like Mr. S. M. Bruce in London, and now Mr. R. G. Casey, who has......

It Is A Great Pity That émigrés Whose Whole Interest

it is to stick together so often bring their quarrels abroad with them. I have before this mentioned a publication called Inside Nazi Germany. It represents a far Left point of......

From A Correspondent " Can You Not Persuade Those Who

arrange B.B.C. talks to instruct the talkers about the pronunciation of German? A gentleman lately told us that what Hitler wanted was " lie- bensraum," which suggested that he......

The Coveted Balkans

T HERE is no social unit in Europe today so small that it may not become at any moment the centre of interest and a turning-point in the major struggle— military or economic. At......