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Support, I See, Is Being Given In Other Quarters To

the sug- gestion I made a fortnight ago that soldiers should be called in where desirable to reinforce the civilian defence services. The reasons are obvious. Some of the......

I Am Glad That General Sir Hugh Files In His

broadcast talk a week ago put in a special word of recognition of the work of the shelter-marshals. These voluntary workers, who work long night hours at by no means negligible......

Questions Of The Utmost Urgency Connected With Victims Of...

have distracted public attention from other grave problems like the treatment of alien internees, but it would be a great mistake to think that with the appointment of one or......

A Spectator 's Notebook

VOTHING, naturally, arouses more eager and earnest interest 11 than suggestions that an answer to the night-bomber will S003 be found. There is little doubt that it will, but in......

Well Known And Admired As General De Gaulle Is In

his capacity as leader and inspirer of Free Frenchmen, the average Englishman knows comparatively little of his inherent qualities. The little book (De Gaulle's France, Simpkin......

One Official Whose Immense Importance To The Community,...

than ever, is much too little appreciated, is the town-clerk. Parliament passes Acts, but municipalities administer them, and the head of each municipal administration system is......

The Situation In London

T HE Ministry of Home Security announced last Monday the new and fuller measures it is adopting to protect civilians in heavily raided areas, and especially in London. The......