26 JUNE 1941, page 4

A Spectator's . Notebook

T HERE are very few Englishmen with personal and up-to- date knowledge of conditions in Russia. One of those few, who happens to enjoy good facilities for observation, and who,......

This Issue Of The Spectator Reveals Distressingly The...

the paper-rationing scheme, under which a general and uniform reduction to 25 per cent. of the weight of paper used in the pre-war period is imposed on all weekly periodicals. A......

Again, I Have Lying On My Desk Two Publications Concerned

with the film trade, To-day's Cinema and The Daily Film Renter (each now appearing only three times a week), one of which weighs approximately half a pound—more than four times......

A Service Department, To Which The Ministry Of...

news, protested that it couldn't make bricks without straw, rejoined tardy " We do provide straw ; you drop the......

In View Of The Suggestion That Mr. Menzies May Yet

return to London as a member of the War Cabinet, a private letter I have received this week from an Englishman in Washington on the Australian Prime Minister's recent visit to......

One Man Whose Lot The Attack On Russia Has Made

con- siderably easier is M. Ivan Maisky, the Russian Ambassador in London, who, as representative of a country fighting side by side with Britain, finds himself a persona grata......

Hitler's Gamble

T HE invasion of Russia by Germany in the small hours of last Sunday morning had been appropriately heralded by the announcement made in Berlin the previous Friday that a quiet......