12 MAY 1939, page 15

I Am Constantly Striving To Discover The Essential...

which separates those who believe in appeasement from those who believe in the policy of collective resistance. Each side ardently desires the same object, namely the avoidance......

It Is Interesting To Observe How, In This Manner, The

doc- trine of appeasement changes its formula in condonation of each new aggression. When Herr Hitler seized the Rhine- land, Austria and the Sudetenland, we were told by the......

Yet What, In Fact, Is At The Root Of This

divergence of method? I see two fundamental differences ; first, a differ- ent interpretation of Herr Hitler's mentality and intentions ; secondly, a different conception of the......

How Delightful It Was Last Saturday To Escape From All

these sombre falsities and to feel the breeze of England fresh upon one's cheek. I sailed down, that sun-splashed afternoon, from Southampton to Portsmouth. Here at least was......

It Is Possible, Under Such An Interpretation, To Contend...

Herr Hitler possesses sufficient self-control to avoid an unsuccessful war. But it is not possible to contend that a successful war does not appear to him as a delight far......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON I the Sunday Times this week there appeared a short 1 but foolish article from the pen of Monsieur Pierre Etienne Flandin—at one time a regrettable, but now......

The Same Absence Of Understanding Is To Be Noticed In

their treatment of the home front. The public are not being informed of the extent or the imminence of our pre- sent danger. In their desire " not to alarm the country," or to......