25 OCTOBER 1940, page 5

. * * * * There Is, I Suppose, No

petrol shortage. Certainly there can be none if petrol consumption by the army is any indication. Of the ceaseless streams of lorries charging up and down our main roads in both......

I Cannot Omit A Line Of Lament For John Beresford,

killed some time in October by enemy action. A cousin of J. D., the novelist, he was a civil servant by profession and a writer by choice. His essays were thoughtful, delicate,......

Who, I Wonder, Was Responsible For The Astonishing Biiise Of

releasing for publication, or passing for publication, in the daily papers, a photograph of what was left of an apartment-house in Berlin after a raid by the R.A.F.? Day after......

A Recent Broadcast By General Sikorski, The Polish Com-...

contained a curious reference to the share Polish troops had taken in British "expeditions to the Conti- nent." A London paper recently published a photograph of newly-arrived......

I Sat In A Village Church On Sunday And Watched

late-comers —though only late relatively, for it was before eleven—wander- ing up the aisle and into the transept in vain search for a seat. There was not one left, for the......

Mr. J. B. Priestley Fully Deserves The Rest He Is

taking from his Sunday night postscripts, and he is very wise to take it. No man can keep on indefinitely with this exacting type of work, and Mr. Priestley has been doing a......

A Spectator's Notebook

L ORD LOTHIAN abundantly deserves any short holiday he may be giving himself in Scotland. (I note, by the way, that good Scot though he is, he referred to this country as......

I Wrote Last Week Of Mr. F. G. Friedlander, The

new Fellow of Trinity, who at the time of his election was residing in an internment camp somewhere in Canada, having been transported thither from a similar institution in this......

America's Part

I N ten days' time the American election campaign will be over. Mr. Roosevelt, stung by various charges and allegations of his opponents, will have delivered the five speeches......