19 JULY 1940, page 5

The Moral Factor In Total War

T HE Prime Minister's broadcast last Sunday will have been recognised by all who know this country and most of those who fear it as the authentic voice of the British nation. He......

A Spectator's Notebook

HE policy, approved by the Foreign Office and strongly disapproved by the Ministry of Economic Warfare, of easing e blockade for Italy in the days when she was still a " non-......

The Reason There Has Not Been More Outcry Against The

rationing of tea is partly that the nation is in a mood to accept cheerfully any restrictions it is told are necessary, and partly that the people who are hardest hit are least......

At A Time When Blenheim Bombers And Hurricane And Spit-

fire fighters figure in Air Ministry communiqués every day of the week, we owe as a matter of decency (an aviator friend suggests to me) some acknowledgement to two personages......

Mr. Matsuoka, The New Japanese Foreign Minister, Played A...

part in the Manchuria discussions at Geneva in 1932, when he distinguished himself in one speech by likening Japan to Christ, 6rucified by the European Powers. The Chinese......

While On The Subject Of Headlines, Let Me Quote This,

from another daily paper the same day, both as a good example of the Americanisation of the British Press and as a stimulus to unravellers of the enigmatic: FINE FOR KING......

Opinions Will Differ As To The General Value Of Otto

Strasser's new book, Hitler and I, and it has always to be remembered that in a conversation between two people one participant's subsequent version of what was said might not......

Whether President Roosevelt Accepts Nomination For A...

not he will have achieved a record, as far as I can remember, by even receiving it. On the face of it that seems not to be true, for the other Roosevelt—Theodore—was nominated......

Goring's Bluster At Britain Says A Headline In The Times,

over an article based on long quotations from the National Zeitung, " the mouthpiece of Goring." I can't help thinking that this " mouthpiece " busi- ness is being overdone.......