24 MARCH 1939, page 14

Many People Moreover Were Startled To Observe That Their...

of" the future" had suddenly been altered. Until that dreadful hour the thought of spring and summer had been illumined by gay enterprises and delights ; suddenly they found......

Then Came The Prime Minister's Speech At Birmingham. Few...

statements can ever have done more to coalesce and galvanise the emotions of a nation. Within some thirty minutes bewilderment and anger were fused into resolution. The country......

Prominent In This Initial Mood Was Bewilderment. It...

that the leader of an honourable nation could thus flout the principles of honour. It seemed incon- ceivable that the initiative should have passed so blatantly from the hands......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON T ASK my German friends when they come to London to tell me how many of their compatriots listen in to our broadcasts in the German language. The replies......

How Tremendous, For Instance, Must Have Been The Effect Of

the Prime Minister's speech of March t7th ! Those severe but simple sentences must have echoed as a gong of warning in all German hearts. This, as I have said before, is the......

First Few Hours Men And Women Were Actually Numbed By

shock. The sunshine stimulus which Downing Street had put out during the week before was suddenly dimmed by a stormy cloud. The accustomed impulses of hope or appre- hension, of......

I Myself Listen Fairly Regularly To The News Bulletin In

German. I do not see how it could be improved. Those of us who heard the shrieks of Marshal Goering on Sunday night, who heard the steam-saw of " Sieg-Heil! " grating upon the......

I Do Not Share This Cynicism. I Believe That Our

former augurs, haruspicists and hepatoscopists are permanently dis- credited. I believe that we shall either achieve peace by firmness; or face war with resolution. I believe......