22 MAY 1941, page 5

The German Wireless Has Been Agreeably Prodigal Of...

in regard to the Hess affair. Quite apart from the generous assortment of explanations of Herr Hess's intentions and state of mind we may learn a good deal that not all of us......

One Effect Of The War Has Been To Give, For

better or worse, a sharp stimulus to anonymity in journalism. I should say it is for worse. Apart from leading articles, which represent no purely individual view, but the......

My Note Last Week On The Egregious Word " Busology

" brings information of a solecism almost more appalling. The word " autobusim "—a Greek prefix, "auto," plus a completely meaningless Latin termination "bus," plus a Hebrew......

Sir Robert Vansittart's Decision To Leave The Foreign...

reaching the retiring age of 6o (which is often, and in war- time usually, extended) next month will surprise no one. Sir Robert has been strangely treated. He was for eight......

Last Week Time And Tide, Youthful And Sprightly Compared...

this centenarian-and-a-bit journal, celebrated its coming of age, and I offer it my respectful congratulations. What I like most about Time and Tide is a certain agreeable......

Whom Are We Fighting?

O NE of the theories about the arrival of Rudolf Hess is that he came to warn us for our own good, or to invite us for Germany's good, to make peace with Hitler. Nothing but......

A Spectator's Notebook

A. REMARKABLE piece of information, to which I have seen no reference in this country, appears in the New Republic of May 5th. In that issue there is reproduced, as basis for an......