14 APRIL 1939, page 6

Listeners To Raymond Gram Swing's Broadcast From The...

on Saturday evening heard Mr. Swing describe pointedly how Marian Anderson, the well-known coloured soprano, was, on account of her negro blood, refused leave by the Daughters......

The Newest Political Departuie—on Which Its Authors Are...

cordially congratulated, is French Without Tears for M.P.s. The sponsor of the plan is the Anglo-French Parlia- mentary Committee, which finds that a number of its members,......

* * * * I Mentioned A Few Weeks Ago

the growing vogue of news- letters, representing in most cases some single individual's views on things in general. Since then the flow has become a flood, and at least a dozen......

Does The New Earl Of Huntingdon (francis John Clarence...

Plantagenet Hastings) become the first Communist member of the House of Lords on the death of his father, which took place last week? That depends on whether he does, in fact,......

An Interesting Strategical Comment Reaches Me From An...

Germany's seizure of the Ukraine is, of course, one of the main objectives outlined in Mein Kampf, and there is no reason to suppose that Herr Hitler has abandoned it. But there......

A Spectator's Notebook

A GOOD deal might be said about the Stanhope episode of a week ago, and much of it is better left unsaid. But the Portsmouth speech has at least drawn attention to the fact that......

Debits And Credits T He Sharp Turn In English Foreign Policy

has a 1. deeper foundation than expediency. It has been possible because the rape of Czecho-Slovakia, like the invasion of Belgium in 1914, has quickened the moral pulse of......