18 OCTOBER 1940, page 5

A Spectator 's Notebook

I s London, I wonder, taking its air-raids too lightly? That may seem a strange and rather heartless question in the circum- stances, but it arises out of a conversation with an......

Opinions Regarding Princess Elizabeth's Broadcast Seem To...

professional critic, I see, speaks of the Princess as " the most outstanding child radio personality I've yet heard." I should not have put it quite that high myself, but it was......

Since Dr. A. V. Hill Called Attention In The Times

to the —on the face of it—shocking case of Mr. F. G. Friedlander, wbo has just been elected Fellow of Trinity (Cambridge), I have acquired some further facts about Mr.......

But Gross As The Case Of Mr. Friedlander Is, It

is only one of many. I have before me a list of scholar after scholar—this particular list contains only scientists—for whose release the Society for the Protection of Science......

* * * * One Class Of Worker Whose Services

to the community at this time are in danger of being too little recognised is the road haulier. Driving night after night with no headlights on roads carrying much more traffic......

" You Ought," Someone Whose Advice Is Worth Following Said

to me the other day, " to find out who was responsible for deciding to adopt the Spitfire as the approved type of fighter, because the man who did that—chose that machine rather......

The Widening War

T HIS week sees the occupation of Rumania by German troops and the opening of the Burma Road by Britain. It has seen the fiercest of the German air- raids on London, and it may......