20 JANUARY 1939, page 6

From Information Which Reached Me From A Particularly...

this week I think the general impression pre- vailing in this country about the state of Czecho-Slovakia needs revision. It has, of course, what may - be considered up to a......

Someone Seems To Think That A Few Lines Which I

wrote last week on the tactics employed by a relatively small body called the National Unemployed Workers' Movement implied a lack of sympathy with the unemployed generally.......

The Unification Of A Dual Personality, Of Which I Was

guilty a week or two ago in the case of Ian Hay—Major- General John Beith, may in certain circumstances cause un- intended inferences to be drawn. It arose, it may be......

One Other Picture Of The Visit To Rome Raises A

question worth considering. After twenty years might not the con- ventional wreath-laying by Ministers of any country visit- ing any other be quietly dropped now ? It has......

Writing Last Week Without A Marlborough College Register...

elbow, I said " I thought " Mr. George Turner was the first lay headmaster of Marlborough. He is not, nor even the second. Mr. (now Sir) Frank Fletcher and Dr. (now Sir) Cyril......

Every Paper Has A Right To Its Own Opinions, But

I am bound to say I read with surprise, as well as regret, the Daily Telegraph's leading article on the League of Nations on Tuesday, constituting as it did an elaborate......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE rumours about a possible visit of Field-Marshal Goering to this country seem to have no very solid basis, but in a letter which Lord Londonderry published in his book......

The Party Machine M R. Wright, The Independent...

the East Norfolk election, has with- drawn from the field, and the Government can rest assured there will be no split in the ranks of its some- what restive supporters. It is......