20 SEPTEMBER 1940, page 5

I Am 'told That In More Than One District Of

London, particu- larly where there have been bad bombings, persons have been taking round from door to door a petition urging that peace negotiations should be opened, to stop......

There Is A Good Deal Of Perplexity About The Five

French cruisers and other vessels which passed through the Straits of Gibraltar a few days ago and are said to have arrived at Dakar, the strategically important port in French......

The Ministry Of Health Is Urging Local Authorities To Take

a liberal view of their duties- in the matter of the repair of raid- struck houses, and to cut forms and formalities to a minimum. I hope the Petroleum Department will do the......

The Question Whether Some Immunity Could Be Secured For...

from German bombers by a considered warning of some form of reprisals raises a triple question, psychological, strategic and ethical. Crude reprisal there certainly will not be,......

The Action Of Lieutenant Davies And His Staff In Unearthing,

removing and destroying the vast time-bomb that threatened St. Paul's Cathedral has rightly been seized on by the public imagination as the most spectacular example of cool and......

A Spectator 's Notebook

S OME single authority, it is clear, with a man of proved and exceptional competence at the head of it, ought to take in hand the problem of London under fire. Admirably—indeed......

Whether You Can Or Can't Change Human Nature Is An

old and vexed question. But that you can change feline nature— or at least that Hitler can—I have proved in the past week. A cat that had been independent and stand-offish to......

The Battle Of London

T HE battle for the destruction of the soul as well as the substance of the capital of the Empire continues. The situation in the past week has shown no decisive change. Goering......