19 DECEMBER 1941, page 9

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON TN one of his retrospects, Mr. Noel Coward adopted an ingenious device for marking the passage of the years between 1914 and 1918. The same patriotic verse......

It May Seem No Very Warm Shape Of Comfort To

be aware that one's opposite numbers in Germany are suffering more acutely than one is oneself. It is for me a small and recurrent solace to realise that when nervous depression......

My Memory Of The Last War Tells Me That These

moods of nervous depression come in waves. For no very particular reason one passes through dark zones into lighter zones, and it may well be that when the snow-drops come I......

How Strange It Was To Be In London Last Week

and to realise that the public (stunned as they were by our naval losses) seemed unaware that two decisive events had occurred. The fact that the United States have entered the......

I Observe In Myself And In My Friends Today A

similar attrition of those protective sheaves in which our nerves are encased. We still sing the same resolute and indeed triumphant song. Yet we sing it a little louder, our......