22 SEPTEMBER 1939, page 15

I Have Been Interested This Week In Ascertaining And Noting

down various shades of opinion throughout the country. Those who are really in the know are reticent and firm. Those who are half in the know are also reticent but asking for......

* * * * The Thoughts Of Our People, And

of the German people, should be directed, not so much towards the actual condi- tions of peace, as to the sort of world which the eventual peace must safeguard. The destruction......

Few Things Are More Illustrative Of The Difference...

temper of the country in 1914 and our present frame of mind than the attitude of the intellectuals. In 1914 the vast majority of the intellectuals faced the situation in a mood......

It Is A Hive, I Notice, Into Which Countless Bees,

and some drones, are most anxious to enter. I have received many letters this week from the distant cousins of distant acquaint- ances telling me that they know French quite......

I Should Imagine That If Mass Observation Were Still...

Mr. Tom Harrisson and Mr. Madge would find that this phrase was almost universal. It is mainly inspired by a natural desire to serve to the best of one's capacity. People are......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON OME amusement (and we are in need of amusement) 13 has been caused during the last days by the Ministry of Information. It is not in any sense malicious......