Too Few Children
SIR,—May I reply to the letter signed " A. R. Caton " in your last week's issue? I never imagined that comment on the Petains and Lavals could be read as a " gibe " at the......
Country Life
Citizens and Soldiers Correspondents who have written both to me personally and to The Spectator will be interested to know, perhaps, that the facts in the case of the......
Women's Land Army Farmers Have Shown A Reluctance To State
their requirements for extra labour that has, apparently, confused both the Ministry of Agriculture and the Women's Land Army. An official appeal for another 5,000 women land......
Aircraft Landings
SIR,—Questions are being asked by many people as to which Govern- ment Department is making itself responsible for the erection of posts and other barriers on open spaces. This......
Sweet Chestnut Bloom
After the high colour of May-time the woods take on a dark uniformity of green that remains unbroken until the early days of July. In hot summers the blossoming of the Spanish......
Germany's War Methods
Sro, — The morale of the Allies has been lowered by an exaggerated respect for the recent triumphs of German arms. An admitted element in these triumphs is the fanatical courage......
The Valour Of Their Own Hearts "
SIR,—John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) wrote a history of the last war, the volumes coming out every quarter or so as the war went on. la describing a very gallant charge of the......
The Siege Of Britain "
SIR,—Webster's Dictionary defines a siege as the sitting down of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling its surrender or of reducing it by......
,‘ If 1-itler Came To Britain "
StR,—I have been reading Mr Robert Powell's article " If Hitler Came to Britain " in your last issue. There could not be a better com- pendium of the consequences which would......
Snt,—with Reference To The Article " The Peril Of Ireland
" hi your last issue, the attention of your readers should be drawn to the grave fact that all-Ireland unity means all-Ireland neutrality. This in turn means the withdrawal of......
Native Cheese A Note On English Cheeses, Written Two Years
ago for this column, brought some interesting information, together with a large slice of mellow Leicester, which, unfortunately, arrived when I was 3,000 miles away. Since that......
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