1 APRIL 1938, page 6

Impressed By The Reports In Wednesday's Papers Of The Plain

speaking by the German minority in the Czechc- slovakian Parliament the previous day I took the trouble to ascertain precisely when last an ordinary member of the German......

* * * There Are A Great Many Ways Of

apologising. I rath, like this model—from the Personal column in last Monday", Times : I N the issue of the Daily Worker, dated Saturday, March 26, we made a statement, " THE......

The Daily Mail, Which It Is My Misfortune To Think

usually wrong, can of course on occasion be right. And in its con- demnation of a forthcoming book, which is described by its publishers as " a frank and unusual autobiography,"......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HERE is a curiously, and in my view quite unjustly, derogatory note in a good many of the comments I have read on Colonel House. He was a remarkable man, and his quiet......

Mr. Justice Asquith Is, I Think, Qualified To Be Numbered

among the comparatively few literary High Court Judges— not because he has written books on Constitutional Law and Trade Union Law, but on the strength of the chapters he......

Not All German Propaganda Is Crude, Though A Great Deal

of it is. Someone has sent me the latest issue of Nea; From Germany, which is posted broadcast from Starnberg, in Bavaria, to large numbers of people in this country. It......

If I Occasionally Draw Attention In This Column To Some

forthcoming, or just published, book it is more in the intere: of potential readers than of the writer. In that spirit let me commend unreservedly Insanity Fair, by Douglas......

Tact—or The Printer ?

" Another well ? dressed woman was Lady —, in go lame and emeralds."—The Sunday Times, March 27th. jANUS.......

Minerals In Peace And War

T HE vital importance of minerals in modern industrial life has long been recognised, especially perhaps since Sir Thomas Holland wrote his now famous book on the Mineral......