26 SEPTEMBER 1941, page 4

I Hear That The Polish Government Proposes To Issue Very

shortly a set of postage-stamps on which will appear pictures of the ruins of Polish cities. They cannot, I imagine, in present circumstances frank letterer but they will have......

I Find. It A Little Difficult To Follow Major Dwight

Whitney, who told the English-Speaking Union on Tuesday that Americans completely misconceived this country, thinking that we were wanting Americans to rescue us from defeat,......

Capt. Margesson's Article In The Star On Invasion, Which The

Times deprecated and the Sunday Times defended, no doubt falls within the provision that a Cabinet Minister may make a statement for publication, to one paper or many, regarding......

We Have Never Taken Much In This Country To Stringing

people up on lamp-posts (though we used to do good work with heads on Temple Bar), but there is something to be said for acquiring the habit. Nothing much less is suitable - for......

Two Answers, I Hope And Believe Accurate, To Questions...

Why are E-boats called E-boats? Short, I am assured, for Enemy-boats. Why this type, more than cruisers, or destroyers, or anything else should get that name I don't know, but......

* * * * One Reflection On The Paper Situation—papers

generally have now been cut down to a basic ration representing 221 per cent. of their pre-war consumption—presents itself. I picked up casually in a railway-carriage the other......

• A Spectator's Notebook

THE statement that in the first fortnight of this month over 400,000 tons of Axis shipping was destroyed in the Medi- terranean by Allied aircraft and submarines is only seen in......

Help For Russia .

AR and the threat of war encircles the globe. Curiously enough it is the still technically non- iligerent United States that completes the circle. East- rd her naval patrols......