20 MARCH 1942, page 4

At A Time When The Birth - Rate — So At Least We Are

often told — is kept down by economic pressure, there is encouragement in one example that has just reached me of the effect of the application of income-tax to wage-earners.......

Our Tortured Tongue

" Operational area defence officers are given power to arrest without warrant any person who may have reasonable ground for being suspected of having committed an offence......

The Most Distressing Feature Of Mr. Dalton's Statement...

cut in clothing-coupons was the appalling sentence " there has been a certain amount of talk that clothes are going to be up-pointed." Trousers, it appears, are not to be......

A Spectator 's Notebook

S PEAKING to the Royal Statistical Society on Tuesday, Sir William Beveridge (incidentally he and Sir Stephen Tallents, who have now been appointed to frame a scheme of fuel......

It Would Help A Lot In Waging This War If

facile left-wing writers and speakers could acquire a sense of responsibility sufficient to restrain them from embellishing statements of fact with (if I may adapt a historic......

Malayan Planters Have Come Under A Good Deal Of Criticism

one way and another the last few weeks, but the charge that they are receivers of stolen goods is rather new. You will find it in John Gunther's new book, Inside Latin America.......

Reconstruction Policy

M UCH of the old world is crumbling before our eyes, and vaster military efforts will have to be made before we can oegin to roll back the tide of invasion ; yet few today will......