25 AUGUST 1939, page 13

The Prophets

PERHAPS I always knew what they were saying: Even the early messengers who walked Into my life from books where they were staying, Those beautiful machines that never talked But......

Primrose Hill

THEY cut the trees away I By day the lean guns leer Across their concrete walls; The evening falls On four guns tucked in bed. The top of the hill is bare, But the trees beneath......

Rumania And The Crisis

By HUGH SETON-WATSON I N recent years Rumanian foreign policy has seemed, from the West, uncertain and obscure. After the departure of Titulescu, faithful chimpion of the League......