17 JULY 1941, page 4

It Seemed A Little Shabby On The Part Of Some

London morn- ing papers to refrain deliberately from mentioning the Sunday Express in connexion with the really remarkable lunch which that paper gave last week in honour of......

In Her New Book, The Chesterton, Which I Have Just

been reading (without admiration) Mrs. Cecil Chesterton emphasises her view of the migration of G. K. C. from Battersea to Beaconsfield by observing that " it was as though, in......

More Expressive, If Unconventional, English—this Time...

if unconventional, English—this time from Hong-kong: " Dear Sir,—I am Sing Eu. It is for my personal benefit I write for a position in your Honourable firm.' I have a flexible......

There Seems To Be The Same Dualism On The Vexed

question of playing the International. There are obvious reasons for playing that jingle with the other national anthems now that Russia is our ally, if it really is the Russian......

A Spectator's Notebook

N OTHING I have heard on the wireless for a long time involves the B.B.C. in greater apparent discredit—I em- phasise the adjective for reasons that will appear—than the......

The Nazi Broadcast Picked Up By The Daily Express's Radio

station on Monday, and printed in that paper the next day, was sensational. " We are attacked almost continuously by Russian fighter-planes," declared Joachim Richter, war-re-......

London, Moscow, Paris

1 HE conclusion of a treaty between Great Britain and Russia, and a convention between Britain (and the Free French) and Vichy France, synchronise most opportunely. By the one......