15 DECEMBER 1939, page 6

Cheap Editions Of Good Books Are A Boon. When An

important work comes out at a high price most of us cannot buy it because it is dear, nor get it from a library because so many other people want to. This apropos, in......

A Paragraph In This Column Last Week On The Scuttling

of enemy ships and the cheering of German submarine crews has evoked two classes of comment. On the one hand, it is pointed out, very justly, that submarine crews who sink......

It Comes As Something Of A Shock To Find Mr.

Joseph Kennedy, the Ambassador to Great Britain, going home to exhort his countrymen to keep out of the war at any cost. Not, of course, that we ever expected America to come......

A Spe C Tator's Notebook C Uriously Enough Two Of The...

in the proceedings at Geneva this week—the President of the Assembly, M. Hambro, of Norway, and Dr. Rudolf Holsti, the Finnish delegate—are prominent Groupers. The Group......

Life, As Has Not Infrequently Been Observed Before, Is...

hard. A day or two ago I met a Conservative M.P. who has occasionally supplied a little of the grist from which this column is laboriously ground. I asked him if he had anything......

It Is A Disappointment Not To Have Trapped The '

Bremen,' but the explanation of her escape to a German port seems fairly clear. She was sighted by a British submarine, which quite rightly refrained from torpedoing her at......

France And Great Britain

INCIDENTS at sea and in the air occurring in endless succession have for some time had a major place in the war news ; the communiques concerning military operations on the......