27 OCTOBER 1939, page 6

From An Edinburgh (or Thereabouts) Garden. Gem N Bomber...

over the tree-tops about fifty yards away, w ch a British fighter in pursuit blazing away at it. Nurse . : " If there's any more of this I shall take the children indoor......

Apropos Of My Reference To Herr Von Papen's Almost...

record of diplomatic failure, I am reminded that von Papen was responsible for the early stages of the talks that led to the Soviet-German Pact—and so to the alienation from......

* * * * An Advertisement In A Daily Paper

inviting " members of the Naval Service," meaning, presumably, naval officers primarily, to submit to the paper for publication—subject, of course, to the Censor—against payment......

" There Is No Part Of The World Where The

British flag is not waving against the will of the people in question, and where deeds of violence, robbery and lies do not mark the path of British Imperialism."—Herr von......

Hard Though It Sounds To Say It, There Can Be

no doubt that, so far as the evacuation of school children is concerned, parents are the curse. I see from one of Monday's papers that on Sunday a number of parents, taking......

How Many Old Trades, I Wonder, Is The War Responsible

for reviving? In Surrey charcoal-burning, which had almost. if not entirely, died out, is being resumed in several wooded areas. But the native art has disappeared, in this part......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE statement in an American newspaper that Great Britain is considering recognising de jure a German Government, to be formed in London, and numbering among its members Dr.......

The Funeral Honours Paid To Two German Airmen At Edinburgh

have aroused some criticism, but there hardly seems ground for it. There is a cameraderie of the air as of the sea (you do not seem to get it in-the same way on land) and like......

The Universal Plaint—this Time From Johannesburg. " We...

more news and less propaganda from England, as we trust our rulers in the main and the population in the mass, and believe in their strength sufficiently to bear to hear bad......

The Following I Reproduce As It Reaches Me—from A Most

respectable source : " Perth control has failed conspicuou ly to restrict the progeny of the Ministry of Information." * * * *......

The Arts In Time Of War T Here Are No Classes

of the community which have -I- been so hard hit by the war as those whose members are concerned with the arts and certain other kinds of intellectual activity. The coming of......