1 DECEMBER 1939, page 6

The Appointment Of M. Jean Monnet As Chairman Of The

Anglo-French Co-ordinating Committee, which is to organise the whole of the joint Allied effort in the economic field is admirable. Actually M. Monnet was more responsible than......

A Spectator's Notebook

IT is a long time since a series of articles has attracted such wide attention as the six, on conditions in Ger- many, which Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard has been con- tributing......

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pronunciation of Bolivar, someone points out that to put the accent on the second syllable (which I suggest is right) would be to make Kipling's " Ballad of the Bolivar "......

A Deep Political Thinker, Who Has Been Studying The Possi-

bilities of closer Anglo-French relations, advocates as a beginning a Customs Union between the two countries— and the assimilation of British liquor-licensing laws to the......

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An official publication (Short Vocabulary of French Words and Phrases with English Pronunciation, Stationery Office, id.), which is less generally known than it ought to be, has......

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Nothing could have come to hand more aptly at this moment than Mr. W. Arnold-Forster's singularly lucid, sane and objective account of the Allied blockade, including reprisals,......

Lord Tankerville's Statement That The Zoo Is Thinking, On...

of economy, of slaughtering the two Chillingham cattle it has at Whipsnade disturbs me greatly. The Chil- lingham herd represents the only survivors of the real aboriginal wild......

Company For Herr Hitler " Thousands Of Balts Have Already

gone, most of them heartbroken at having to leave their Hc:nzath. Our friend, Dr. L—, has the enviable lot of sailing for Germany in charge of more than a thousand......

The Provinces And Their Press L Ast Saturday The...

made its last appearance under the editorship of Mr. Arthur Mann. His knowledge of journalism, wise judgement and fearless independence, in an editorship lasting twenty years,......