25 AUGUST 1939, page 23

" Spiritual Disarmament" Sin,—after Reading The Spectator...

I dropped it, and I only recently began again. The first copy contained Dr. Joad's article, the point of which seemed to be to take away from our spiritual armoury what had......

Queer England

Snt,—I have recently returned from a holiday in England. I found the English individually charming and collectively incomprehensible. One night, returning to our flat, we......

The Map Of Europe

Sta,—In your last issue you produce, for the convenience of readers of articles on foreign affairs, a map of Europe, and I write to utter a protest against the form in which the......

Prison For Critics Sir,—the Letter Which Appeared Under...

in last week's issue of The Spectator is typical of the Right-Wing Pro-Fascist element in the Conservative Party today. It seems that such people would like all Labour, Liberal......

Australia And Conscription

Sur,—On March loth you published a letter from a Mr. L. E. Kastner, in which he states : " It is hardly necessary to recall that all democratic countries in Europe have......

Alliances Or Collective Security ?

SIR,—Mr. J. A. Spender in his reply to Sir Norman Angell does not quite put the point which has long troubled me. At various crises prominent men have reprimanded us (the......