1 NOVEMBER 1940, page 5

Disastrous Though The Norwegian Campaign Was From Many...

view, it is likely to bear belated but rather important fruit before long. As everyone knows, the iron-ore, indis- pensable to Germany, from the north of Sweden is at normal......

I Observe With Some Satisfaction That Two Suggestions I Have

pressed in this column lately (I make no exclusive claims to their advocacy) have been or are being adopted by Ministers. One is the employment of Welsh and other miners to......

* * * * Parliament The Other Day Agreed In

about five minutes to a vote of a further Er,000,000,000, to carry on the war for another four months or so, at the present rate of £9,000,000 a day. A comparison with the cost......

I Was Glad To See The Times Leader On The

two-hundredth anniversary of Boswell's birth—a date that even in these days of stress should not go unnoted. For even Macaulay, who belittled Boswell so dogmatically, agreed......

With Signs Of Movement In The Middle East The Army

is likely to find itself rather more in the public eye than it has been. Lately, for very obvious reasons, the Air Force has been getting all the glory—because it has been......

A Spectator's Notebook

I IT seems hard to believe that Dr. J. J. Mallon has been Warden of Toynbee Hall for twenty-one years, but since it is a historical fact that he started there on November 1st,......

War In The Balkans ,

F OUR months ago when Italy declared war on Great 1 : Britain and France Signor Mussolini made a " solemn " declaration that she did not intend to " drag other peoples who are......