25 AUGUST 1939, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

M OST of us will probably long remember how we heard the German-Russian news on Tuesday morning. No doubt the average newspaper-reader got his shock at his breakfast-table.......

Advancing Years Seem To Bring To Mr. Robertson Scott, The

Editor of The Countryman, ever brighter ideas. What could be better than his suggestion that the copy of Magna Carta at present being exhibited at the World's Fair in New York......

A Drive To The Borders Of Cornwall And Back During

the week-end confirmed the conviction which a tour northwards last month impressed on me, that if ever a time comes when money in substantial quantities can be devoted to such......

The Translations Of The Two Ronald Campbells, Sir Ronald And

Mr. Ronald, are calculated to make a nice diplomatic confusion. Sir Ronald Campbell, Minister in Belgrade, goe , , as Ambassador to Paris, where Mr. Ronald Campbell is Minister,......

It Would Be Interesting To Know What The Actual Position

of the Fascist movement in this country is, for the fact that Fascist meetings are so largely ignored by the Press may create some misleading impressions. I do not believe the......

* * * * The Daily Paper Whose Compositors Made

it say last week that two " convicts " had been rescued from some cliffs on the Bristol Channel, instead of two " canoeists," is to be condoled with, but its apology was lavish......

However The Russo-german Pact Is To Be Interpreted, It...

to have not unimportant reactions on British naval strategy. In a brief survey given privately not long ago by a high naval authority of the probable position on the outbreak of......

The Palestine Mandate

T HE Report of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League on Great Britain's policy in Palestine, as stated in the White Paper last May, has apparently come as an......