27 OCTOBER 1939, page 15

It Is Interesting To Observe The Curious Companionships...

war has created. A thin yellow line of pacifism runs from the extreme right to the extreme left. You have the rich defeatists who foresee that whatever happens they will lose......

It Amazes Me That This Thin Yellow Line Should Be

so thin. The whole life of the country has been dislocated ; our pleasures, our hopes and our relaxations have been curtailed ; the vast organisation which had been planned in......

* * * * What Is So Strange And Comforting

about Mrs. Dukes is that she always knows. I had sat up late the other night discussing the probabilities of the coming war with three men who functions and experience entitle......

The " British Council For Christian Settlement In Europe "

bears many honourable names. The motives of some of its supporters are Christian in the finest sense of the word. But it also contains the names of other people who have in the......

Especially Am I Grateful To Mrs. Dukes, My Charwoman In

the Temple. My manservant having, with gay patriotism, joined the defence forces, it is Mrs. Dukes who comes in the mornings. As I shave I can hear her answering the telephone.......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON W HEN I was a civil servant I used to regard Parlia- mentary Questions as a method by which, at the expense of public time and money, the pushing politician......