24 FEBRUARY 1939, page 6

I Spoke Last Week Of The Difficulty Of Deciding How

much importance to attach to the persistent reports of an alarming deterioration of the German railway system's locomotives, rolling-stock and permanent way. As it happened,......

Mr. A. P. Herbert Raises A Nice Question When He

calls on the President of the Board of Trade to refuse a licence to a company bearing the name Oxford Group (formed for the purpose of holding any moneys given or bequeathed to......

Mr. R. S. Hudson's Journey To Moscow, Warsaw And Other

European capitals may mean a good deal for the country and a good deal for himself ; for the country, because the increase of British export trade is a matter of the first......

The Committee Engaged In Considering The Question Of The...

seat is likely, I gather, to advise against any change in the present arrangement, whereby the Speaker, as one of the 615 members of the House, stands in the ordinary way for an......

A Spectator's Notebook

I GET from more than one source surprising reports about the hostile attitude adopted by the Quai d'Orsay, and M. Bonnet in particular, towards British journalists in Paris. I......

One Of The Tragedies Of The Present Situation In Europe

is the tendency of a new—and necessary—charitable appeal to sidetrack an old one in the public mind. Take the Basque children. Most of those who came to this country have been......

The Palestine Deadlock

T HE Palestine Conference appears to have reached the deadlock which all except the most confirmed optimists foretold when it opened. The Jews and the Arabs have stated their......