28 MARCH 1941, page 2

News Of The Week

I F the passing of the Lease-and-Lend Bill in the United States created a wave of renewed confidence among all countries winch look for a British victory, there was reason to be......

Mr. Matsuoka's Tour

The European tour of Mr. Matsuoka, the Foreign Minister of Japan, naturally the theme of much discussion in Tokyo, has been advertised with flamboyant rhetoric in Berlin as a......

Lord Halifax On War And Peace

Britain's principal war aim, said Lord Halifax in his wise, reflective speech at the Pilgrims' dinner in New York last Tuesday, is to " win this life-and-death struggle for the......

Victories In East Africa

The pressure upon the enemy in East Africa is being directed from all points of the compass along lines which tend to con- verge on Addis Ababa, the Abyssinian capital. The......

The B.b.c. And The Prime Minister

The B.B.C. have withdrawn, though not with the best possible grace, and not without exposing themselves to a merited rebuff from the Prime Minister. To ostracise persons who......

Aeroplane Output

Lord Beaverbrook's broadcast last Sunday was announced (by its author) as being " an account of the state of our nefer planes," but roughly half of it was devoted to a eulogy of......