23 AUGUST 1940, page 2

News Of The Week

T HE withdrawal of the small British force before powerful Italian forces and the evacuation of Somaliland may be of no great military consequence but are much to be regretted......

Rumania And Bulgaria

The negotiations between Rumania and Bulgaria have been brought to a conclusion which everyone well acquainted with the history of the Balkans in the last 32 years will regard......

Need To Attack Italy

The very successful British naval bombardment of Bardia and Fort Capuzzo was probably designed in part to counter the impression created by our evacuation of British Somaliland.......

Eire And The Submarines

Mr. Lees-Smith called attention last week to one aspect of Eire's neutrality which deserves to be more widely known than it is. At present a very high proportion of the British......

Japan's Manoeuvres

Japan's policy cannot be developed without regard to the balance of world forces, and one may assume that her Govern- ment receive particularly good information about the......

Co-operation With America

On President Roosevelt's initiative the United States has taken two simple and straightforward, yet profoundly significant steps towards creating common bonds of defence between......