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Cornish Fanners Are Getting Some Useful New Light On Natural

history from evacuee children. For example: " Coo, no wonder the old sow's so big, with all those little ones blowing......

The Continuing Conflict

T HE capitulation of France is complete. There is no room for illusion about that. Nothing would be gained, and a great deal would be lost, by resort to any kind of......

For A Year Or Two Before Last September A Well-known

American business man (whose wife happens to be English) was settled very happily in a Home Counties village. When the war broke out he offered the village a field for the......

A Spectator's Notebook

EPLORABLE though the decisions taken by the Govern- ment of Marshal Petain are, there would seem to be no justification for the suggestions rather freely made in this country......

Mr. Bevin—now Satisfactorily An M.p.—is A Considerable...

Government as a broadcaster. He may drop some of his final g's—do not many of the bluest-blooded do the same?—and accentuate personnel in the second syllable—but why not? All......

Philatelists Will Find An Interesting Stamp Story In M....

Siegfried's new book on the Suez and Panama Canals. In 19o2, when the American Senate was sharply divided on the vital question of whether the projected Atlantic-Pacific water-......

One Question Of Some Importance Must Have Presented...

a good many parents in connexion with the possibility of the migration of children to the Dominions or the United States. Only this week I had a letter from a frequent con-......

The Ministry Of Information Leaflet Describing The...

be observed " If the Invader Comes " is admirable except for one paragraph which has started a note of query in other minds than mine. It is the one on parachutists. "......