17 NOVEMBER 1939, page 6

The Journalistic Casualties Of The War, I Am Afraid, Are

only just beginning. It is distressing that one of the first should be the Cornhill, so admirable a survival of the Victorian days, when the taste for reading what was instruc-......

I Have The Best Of Reasons For Welcoming The Attention

The Times has drawn to the ;historical importance of Plymouth's celebration of the 5ooth anniversary of the granting of its municipal charter. There are not many British cities......

All That Need Be Said Of Sir Arthur Salter's Appointment

to the Parliamentaryship of the Ministry of Shipping is that it is a case of the right man being half-way towards the right place. By accident or design the appointment was......

We Have Hardly Realised Yet How Complete A Barrier The

new Neutrality Act in the United States has set up against visits by Americans to this country. Under the Act no American ship may come into British or French waters and no......

Arising Out Of A Discussion Between Normally Well-...

who were not well-informed on this—the shortest flying distance from Germany to the coast of Britain, assuming the neutrality of Holland and Belgrum to be respected, is just......

A Spectator's Notebook M R. Churchill's Mention Of The...

15 German raiding bombers have been shot down by our fighters without the loss of a single machine of ours, while highly gratifying so far as it goes, emphasises pointedly the......

Clergy, It Appears, Are Being Warned That Parish...

something which concern the censor, and one of them suggests that he and his brethren are wondering whether they will soon be having to submit the drafts of their Sunday......

The Public Schools

T HE public schools have had to bear their share in the upheaval which has affected all primiry, secondary and higher education, but are now settling down under war-time......