21 MARCH 1941, page 5

A Spectator's Notebook

UT ITH air-raid fatalities on Merseyside and Clydeside alone on three nights this month totalling more than those for the whole country in the twenty-eight days of February......

While British And South African Troops Converge On Addis...

from every frontier of Abyssinia it is worth while remembering that guerilla warfare against the Italian con- querors has been perpetual for the past five years. It has been......

Next To The New Ambassador, I Suppose That President J.

B. Conant, of Harvard, is the most distinguished American now on an official mission to this country. President Conant, who is one of the leading chemists in the United States,......

Anonymity In Journalism Is On The Whole On The Wane,

but the foreign correspondents of papers like The Times and The Daily Telegraph remain still " Our Own Correspondent " simply. Occasionally they should be given in their own......

It Is Sad That M. Titulescu Is Dead. No One

who ever met him in any of the odd quarters of Europe where you were liable to meet him will ever forget him. His duels with Count Apponyi at Geneva on the perennial " optants "......

I Have Been Discussing Serving Generals This Week With A

General of great experience and discernment on the retired list, who in the past has been in close and frequent contact with Sir Archibald Wavell and holds as high an opinion as......

War And Post-war

B OTH inside this country and outside it thoughts and energies are being directed to two distinct but associated ends, the prosecution of the war and preparation for the......