19 DECEMBER 1941, page 4

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE little fourpenny booklet on The Defence of Calais, by Eric Linklater, which the Ministry of Information has pre- pared for the War Office, a little perplexes me. That it is......

I Referred A Week Or Two Ago To The Importance

of the forth- coming by-election in the Willowfield division of Belfast, where a Government seat was being contested against the official Government candidate by Alderman......

A Question That Ought To Be Given Much More Than

local attention has just arisen in an interesting form at Plymouth. A week or two ago twelve well-known business and professional men in that ravaged city, most of them active......

It Is Exhilarating To Read Of British Troops Smashing Their

way through enemy defences in Libya and elsewhere, but not quite so gratifying to find them applying that process as extensively as they apparently do to their billets at home.......

I Expressed Confidence The Other Day That Professor...

could be relied on to avoid any suspicion of propagandism in the course of his present speaking-tour in the United States. I retain that confidence fully, but Dr. Huxley has, I......

The Temptation To Assume A Crack In Morale In Germany,

in view of the German reverses in the east, should still be resisted. There are, it is true, one or two encouraging signs. As lately as October the German official radio was......

A Single Strategy

M EMBERS of Parliament, and in common with them everyone whose business it is to give serious thought to tne international situation, are seriously concerned about the question......