19 MAY 1939, page 6

One More Example Of Herr Von Ribbentrop's Folly Or Per-

versity. A recent visitor to Paris was told, with all solemnity, by a former diplomat, a non-German in touch with official German opinion, that Herr von Ribbentrop and his......

I Never Thought I Should Live To Get A Shock

from that long- established, staid, dispassionate record of events, the Annual Register, which no less a personage than Edmund Burke founded in 1758. If there is one thing more......

Let Britain Speak

TODAY Great Britain is spending over £400,000,000 a year on war preparations, on guns, on shells, on warships, on aeroplanes, on soldiers. This vast expendi- ture is justified......

Hard Things Are Often Said About British Diplomacy, And Not

all of them are undeserved. But—thanks, admittedly, in the main to Herr Hitler—enough has been achieved by British diplomacy in the past two months to make Herr Hitler sick with......

I Have Been Sent A Cutting From The Times, Accompanied

by some pungent comments to which I can take no excep- tion. The essential sentence, which reaches me underlined, runs : ." Boil two small live lobsters." That unadorned in-......

I Referred Last Week To The Use Made By A

propaganda news-sheet published in Bavaria, called News from Germany, of comments on the international situation in The New Pioneer, and mentioned that according to the......

A Spectator's Notebook

V ARIOUS explanations are proffered for the substitution of M. Maisky for M. Potemkin or M. Molotoff as dele- gate of U.S.S.R. at the League of Nations Council meeting next......