21 JUNE 1940, page 5

As The War In Africa Is Supplying Welcome News Of

successes, so it is supplying welcome touches of humour. Two are pro- vided in The Times telegrams on Wednesday. One, of course, was the novel and agreeable achievement of......

These Are Days In Which Most Of Us Are More

than ready to do the right thing if only someone we have confidence in will tell us what it is. War-time diet is a case in point. We all have vague memories of reading articles......

It Is To Be Hoped The New Order Regarding The

obliteration of place-names will be rigorously enforced. A few days ago a Surrey village, from which every signpost had been scrupulously removed, had its name blazoned on some......

A Spectator's Notebook

R. CHURCHILL'S broadcast address on Tuesday evening differed by hardly a word from the speech he had delivered in the House the same afternoon, but at one of the few points......

It Is To Be Hoped That Something Will Be Done

quickly to remove the difficulties about taking money to Canada and the United States. As things are the position is that poor children can be sent to Canada at the Government's......

We Have Probably Got Fairly Well Out Of The "

it can't happen here " frame of mind by this time, but there are some distaste- ful lessons still to be learned. About Fifth-Column activities, for example. How any Briton could......

It Is A Rather Curious Fact That As Each New

age group is called up the proportion of conscientious objectors grows steadily smaller. Among the " 28's," called up last Saturday, it was less than in any previous groups.......

And Now Britain T He Fate Of France, And The Future

of the French fleet, are, as we write, still in doubt. Decisions taken at Bordeaux on what was perhaps the most critical Sunday in France's history arose out of conflicts of......