12 JULY 1940, page 5

The B.b.c. Has No Doubt Had To Feel About, As

it were, for the ideal commentator on current events, and some of its experiments have been calamitous. But in Mr. J. B. Priestley, who was not so obscure that he need have been......

A Spectator's Notebook

HE most remarkable feature of the situation in France is the total absence of any reliable information about what is appening there. Between this country and that, separated s......

The French Government, I See, Has Instituted Proceedings...

well-known journalists, including Madame Tabouis, M. Andre Geraud (Pertinax) and M. Henri de Kerillis. All of them, fortunately, are outside the French Government's......

I Have Been Sent A Rather Sumptuous Publication On The

United States, described as a Picture Post Special, which has jut appeared. It evokes nothing but admiration ; but what interests me particularly is not its quality but its......

I Wrote Something Last Week About The Psychology Of Fifth

Columnists, or if you will Quislings, or if you will traitors. It is a subject that is very far from being exhausted, and to any- one disposed to pursue it further I commend......

The Club-member Who Had Been Scanning The Tape-messages...

brought the results of his study to the smoking- room. " Bad news," he said. " The British fleet has been sighted off Beachy Head with the Italian fleet in hot pursuit," which,......

Dakar Was, To The Layman, An Unlikely Spot To Find

the ' Richelieu ' in. Not quite everybody, indeed, could say on the spur of the moment where Dakar is. It is actually the chief port of French West Africa, lying at the very......

A Fascist France

T HE speed with which what we must still call France is unwriting all that is greatest and most glorious in French history is shattering. On June 14th Paris was still in French......