24 JANUARY 1941, page 5

A Spectator 's Notebook

0 journalist can feel happy about the suppression of any newspaper, however repugnant he may personally find its ews. Freedom of the Press is one of the ideals we are defending......

Tht Prime Minister's Reference On Wednesday To His Hope Of

maintaining national unity, meaning a National Govern- ment, for three years after the wat is very interesting. Mr. Churchill, who, if I remember rightly, was one of the......

Some Interest Is Being Taken In Instructed Quarters In The

destruction of five German bombers in the raid on Sunday night—the last to be reported as I write. Five is not a large number, but it was not an extensive raid ; so the......

"when I Walk Into The Room Many Of The Children

look at me hopefully and cry 'Daddy.' "—Mr. Malcolm MacDonald (on residential nurseries) at Cheltenham. "He sez about every child he meats calls him Par, and he takes it for......

Welcome Mr. Willkie

I T may argue some disproportion that in a week in which President Roosevelt has delivered the only Third In- augural in the history of the United States the American who is......

Returning From America In His Best Fighting Trim Mr. H.

G. ells is outraged to find 'Rome still unbombed. What on arth has the R.A.F. been up to in his absence? By Rome r. Wells (whose emotions fill in about half a page of the inday......

Mr. Boothby Will Have To Tread With Singular Care If

he is to make anything of a success in the defence he proposes to put up in the House of Commons. The House cannot vindicate him without throwing over its own Select Committee,......