15 AUGUST 1941, page 10

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON I T is generally held that it is the Civil Servants who in truth govern this country and that the bureaucratic machine turns out much the same commodity......

Mr. Hudson Is Now Calling For Two Thousand More Land-girls

to cope with the increased acreage now coming under plough. Will the time come when the hop-gardens, our hanging vineyards, are swept from Kent, leaving the oast-houses to swing......

The Harvest Is Now Upon Us, One Of The Finest

harvests which England has ever seen. Further volunteers have been called for from the industrial North and Midlands, and north-country voices are heard among our Kentish lanes.......

But The Historian, In Deducing From This Similarity Of...

the theory that it is the Civil Servant who invariably decides, will be deducing a false theory. He will be forgetting that any Government Department is like an iceberg, in that......

Having Spent Many Years In The Civil Service, I Have

come to the conclusion that most experienced Civil Servants are indifferent to political or economic theories and that the only thing that they really object to is light or......

Mr. Hudson Occupies One Of The Most Vulnerable Of All

Government posts. The mistakes of a Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, in that they mature slowly in the womb of time, cannot be either remedied or concealed. Other......

The Numbers Of Volunteers For Whom Work Has Been Found

since the outbreak of the war has gone up steadily. Kent, which is so often in the vanguard of any new form of national effort or experiment, heads the list with 1,500, as......