19 SEPTEMBER 1941, page 13

Puzzled Workers Six,—almost Every Day Some Disembodied...

wireless tells us and the world that it is up to the factory-workers to win the war. Almost every day some Cabinet Minister visits some industrial centre and speaks to the......

The Uses Of Advertisement

SIR, —There is excessive advertising by firms engaged wholly or mainly on Government contracts. Here are a few examples. Sixteen recent issues of one journal connected with the......

Sut,—the Name Of Persia For Iran Has Been Accepted In

Europe through many centuries, and was good enough for Cicero, Pliny, Chardin, Burton, Curzon and the British Government. Nor was it rejected even by the followers of Zoroaster.......

Dislocation And Opportunity

SIR, —The Spectator's leader last week on " The Europe of Tomorrow " contained the suggestion that we must abolish impedi- ments to trade as rapidly as is consonant with the......

Bombing-policy

SIR, —Your contributor's article on bombing policy reminds the public, whose memory is short, that night-bombing was started by this country as a long-term policy and British "......

Floral Vagaries

Sts,—Mr. Harold Nicolson in his interesting article on Iran in your issue of September 5th told us how Teutonic ruthlessness had succeeded in making the hard scarlet of the......

Iran Or Persia ?

SIR,--A8 I am the writer whom Mr. Siodia quotes in his letter in your last issue, perhaps you will allow me to explain why I prefer " Persia " to " Iran." " Persia," like "......