26 JULY 1940, page 11

America Prepares

By ERWIN D. CANHAM By Air-Mail. T HE creation of a vast citizen-army in the United States is now under way; the Government, with national opinion likely to come along......

Poem

IT would be strange If at a crucial question, in wild-beast dens Or cellars sweating with pain the stammerers Should find their confidence. It would be strange If the haphazard......

Drake's Way

By A. L. ROWSE M ANY people—the Government itself, to judge from some of its pronouncements—have been struck by the similarity of our situation today to that in 1587-8, that......

Important Notice

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