22 SEPTEMBER 1939, page 6

I Hear It Suggested That The Halfpenny Postcard Should Be

restored. With the present dispersal of the population and break-up of families, much more communication by post will be needed. But the evacuees are in the main not letter-......

Evacuation Stories Multiply, Though The Publicity Given...

not justify the inference that the scheme as a whole is working badly. But cases like this show some of its weak points. A child billeted within reach of London is being kept—at......

The Appointment Of A New Canadian Minister At Wash- Ington

is only less important in present circumstances than the appointment of a new British Ambassador. It is hard to see how Mr. Mackenzie King could have found anyone better......

A Spectator's Notebook

W HEN the news of the Russian invasion of Poland came one of my first thoughts was to ascertain what interpre- tation the accredited mouthpiece of Communism in this country, the......

Speculation Has Naturally Fastened On The Passage In Hen...

speech at Danzig in which he spoke, or is repre- sented as having spoken, of " a weapon which is not yet known and with which we could not ourselves be attacked." I say " or is......

So Far As Evacuated Children Are Concerned The Success Of

the scheme must depend to a large extent on the teachers. Their help in the matter of discipline is obviously needed on occasion out of school hours as well as in, and if they......

Air-war And The Cities T He Present Complete Immunity Of...

and other British cities from aerial attack, and the similar immunity of French towns far behind the lines, may merely be due to the fact that the Germans have not yet got into......