A Spectator 's Notebook T Here Is No Mistaking The Mood
of the public about Libya in general and Tobruk in particular. That, I believe, is discussed elsewhere in this issue, and I will add nothing here. But there is another question......
It Will Not Have Escaped Notice That When Sir Horace
Wilson, Permanent Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Civil Service, vacates those offices in August on reaching the retiring age of 60, he is to be succeeded in both by......
Studying An Advertisement Of " Wine And Food, No. 34, Summer
1942," I try to decide both what my emotions are and what the should be. There is a wistful nostalgia about the contents. Fo example: "The Passing of Antoine." "Alfred Housman,......
A Gallup Poll Has Recently Been Taken In Sweden On
the genet reliability, or popularity (I imagine the latter depends on the former of the news in Swedish broadcast respectively by the B.B.C., t German and the Russian radio. The......
One Thing That Makes Considered Judgements By The Ordina...
on tht Libyan situation a little difficult -is a pair of messag like these: "The Gazala-Mekili line, which we held for the last months, was not a really good defensive position.......
The Resignation Of President Ortiz, Of Argentina, Is A...
of how far a nation's destinies may depend on one man's eyes. Dr. Ortiz was elected President in 1937 and assumed office for a six-year term in 1938. In 1941 he was......
In The Debate On The Colonial Office Vote In The
House of Comm° this week, Mr. Harold Macmillan spoke of the great vogue bicycles in many colonies. There is an aspect . of that on which apparently did, not touch. In some......
Why Did It Happen?
pFi.is may be worse news to come from the Middle East I. yet. In any case what has come already is bad enough. We have sustained a defeat of the first magnitude in Libya. We......
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