The Demand For Foreign Office Reform Is Older Than You
might realise. Here, in language which you might not normally associate with a Victorian era is Carlyle's comment on the Foreign Office in Latter Day Pamphlets, published in......
There Is A Revealing Sentence In A Report I Have
just read from a Jew who managed recently to leave Germany. He " had the impression that frequently Jews were welcomed by the workers because, in talking to Jews, there was no......
In My Notes Last Week I Over-praised The Proposed Reforms
of the Diplomatic Service. Apparently the Commercial Diplomatic, whose members are appointed by the Department of Overseas Trade, is still excluded from the scope of these......
And All This Is Awkward Because The Ambassador In Lisbon
is also Sir Ronald Campbell, and one is therefore provided with endless material for farce or drama. Will the one be arrested by suspicious police—and the police in so......
I Have So Often Waxed Angry Over The Timid Policies
of men like Baldwin and Chamberlain, Simon and Hoare, that I now hasten to pay my tribute to the author of the slogan which, at the time of its invention, filled me with......
The Axis Powers Are Very Angry About The Recent St.
James's Palace meeting of the Allied representatives. " This circle of ghosts " holding their " death dance on the ruins of a shat- tered world," was the way in which the German......
I Am Intrigued By The News That Ronald Campbell, Formerly
British Minister in Belgrade, has arrived in Lisbon. I refer to him without a prefix not because I know him very well (for, alas, I don't) but because I do not know whether to......
A Spectator's Notebook
I CANNOT share the widespread satisfaction over the reports of Russo-German friction. They can generally be traced back to the Germans themselves, and therefore the more we......
Even In These Days Of Broadcasting, Belligerents Know So...
of events in each other's countries that I write very diffi- dently about the state of mind in Germany. Reports from many sources agree, however, about the astonishing lack of......
Russia And The New Europe
T HE recent concentration on the Soviet frontier of a hundred German divisions, to which have been added armoured divisions and powerful air squadrons, has been the subject of......
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