25 APRIL 1941, page 14

" Suppressio Veri " Sot,:--some Months Ago I Listened To

Adolf Hitler broadcasting from Berlin. He taunted the B.E.F. for having run away from the Germans at Dunkirk. Last Wednesday I listened to Admiral Sir Frederic Dreyer......

At The Flax Flax Has Brought A New—perhaps More Strictly

a revived—industry to the countryside ; and with it new sights. For now, in April, last year's crop is being spread out in grass-fields for its spring airing. Among the......

Country Lift

Civvy Street I think many country-dwellers, for Whom country-life expresses tranquillity, tramps and all sorts of varied interests, have no notion at all of the intense boredom......

In The Garden .

It is now almost impossible to get leek-seed. Plants from an nut" door sowing are, anyway, often small, and it will pay to try plants raised from a January sowing. Pricked out......

Where Are We Going?

read with interest Mr. St. John Reade's account of the dismissal of an air-raid warden at Bristol. I regret to say that in the experience of my Council this is by no means an......

Politics In Ulster

Sm,—I should like to congratulate " Janus " upon the fairly accurate perspective of his note on the recent by-election in North Down, Northern Ireland. The electirm was, in......

Country Strangers .

Lack of signposts means little to the countryman in his own area, yet nothing has changed travelling in the countryside so much. On a recent journey into the West country . I......

Spain And Monarchism

Sm,—Mr. Scott stated in his letter in The 'Spectator last week that my article on "Spain and Monarchism" contains one rather sur- prising error . . . "that General Franco has......