17 OCTOBER 1941, page 4

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE proper limits to be set in a democratic State to criticism of the conduct of a war are hard to fix. Clearly the business of planning campaigns must be left to those trained......

Those Quotations. Information Received (and Hereby Grate-...

that the observation that " You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them " was made by Felix von Schwartzenburg, who established order in Vienna after the 1848......

Another Aspect Of The Paper Question. A Well-known Public...

who writes to me that the publication of a book he has written is held up till January because the publisher has exhausted his paper-stocks, adds " I get the most nonsensical......

End Their Engagement. A B The Question Of Pipe-smoking In

public by officers of the p R.A.F.—on which I permitted myself some observations a fortnight ago—has now engaged the attention of the House of fc Commons, and Captain Balfour,......

Information Supplying Answers, Which I Am Glad To Give, Some

of my questions regarding the organisation of the Grou Movement has reached me. It takes the form of counsel' opinion and a letter from a firm of solicitors. From these I......

For Months " Fido's Food Shop " Purveyed Cow-flux ("

unfit for human food "), for dogs and cats at what mos t people would regard as the outrageous price of Is. 3d. a lb . Lord Woolton evidently so regarded it, for he stepped in......

Two Communications, Bearing Rather Curiously On The...

reached me from different quarters simul- taneously. One encloses a thick package of the familiar birth- control, rejuvenation, female-remedies puffs, dealing with ques- tions......

The " Do-something " Strategy

NXIETY regarding Russia is so intense, and sympathy for her army and her people so profound, that the mand that Britain should help her to the utmost limit inevitable and......