24 AUGUST 1944, page 4

The 8 O'clock News (and For All I Know The

7 o'clock news) one morning this week happened to contain several different sets of figures which throw an instructive light on the relation between killed and prisoners in......

Whether It Is The Minister Of Home Security Or The

Lon Passenger Transport Board that is responsible for the decision to run the Tube trains under the river (except on one route) d alerts I do not know, but I hope very earnestly......

A Spectator's Notebook A Very High British Officer Was...

have said just before or after D-Day that the Germans would be out of France in a month. The prediction seemed too fantastic for its author to claim to be taken seriously. Yet......

The Proposal To Leave Some Of The Blitzed Churches In

London elsewhere in ruins as a reminder to future generations of what blitz was seems to have aroused little enthusiasm, and I am surprised. What need, after all, is there for......

Signature Tunes Are The Fashion Nowadays, And Some Of Them

any rate are much more recognisable than a great many mut signatures that come my way. A day or two ago a business lea reached me with a name suffixed of which I could not so......

Having Commented On The Frequent Misuse Of The 0 "

shambles " I may admit that its application to some of the 5 C in Normandy in the past week cannot be cavilled at. On the hand, the junior Minister who referred a few days ago......

I Wish That Mr. Dalton, Who Has Done Great Service

in arranging for the supply of utility articles of one kind and another, would tui n his mind to the subject of watches. He has, I know, done a good deal about alarm clocks, but......

The League Of Tomorrow

rni General Montgomery declaring that the end of the war is in sight (his vision, it will be observed, is a little more tracing than General Eisenhower's), Sir Alexander Cadogan......