17 AUGUST 1944, page 4

A Spectator's Notebook

T is satisfactory to learn from the Minister of Health that the j fatalities from flying bombs are only a third of what they were when the attacks began ; the relative smallness......

A Note On The Paper Shortage. Attempts To Buy A

Bible at 1 0 of the principal bookshops in a University town produced no Bib le ' and no suggestions as to where one could be acquired. Yet ono* the shop, paper—with the......

The News That A Considerable Number Of Millions Of Maps

of Berlin have been printed for the use of the British troops no doubt argues a wise prevision, but there seems little likelihood that the maps will ever be required, except......

The Death Of Captain G. C. Grey Is A Heavy

blow to the small Liberal Party in the House of Commons. That party, like Con. servatives and Labour, is weak in young members, and in Captain Grey a recruit who added to youth,......

The Fact That The 497 Road Deaths In June Were

135 fewer than in May gives no particular ground for encouragement. Variations from month to month are of little consequence ; all that is relevait is the average taken over a......

I Have Some Sympathy With A Correspondent Who Protests...

the perpetual misuse of the word " shambles," so consistently invoked by war correspondents as a fitting description for villages reduced by bombing and shelling to piles of......

Did General Montgomery Take In' Anthology Of Historic...

him to Normandy? Or has he a number of them by heart? In his address to his troops a month ago after D-Day he quoted most of Sir Francis Drake's prayer penned before Cadiz in......

The Pacific War And After

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT returned last week from a journey Jr in the Pacific which compares with the war-time Odysseys of Mr. Churchill. These two leaders of the English-speaking p......