29 DECEMBER 1939, page 2

Truth And Ley

The Manchester Guardian has done a useful service in republishing an article in the Angriff by Dr. Ley, the head of the German Labour Front. With elaborate mendacity and......

The Pope's Five Points

The address by the Pope to the College of Cardinals on Christmas Eve, linked as it should be both with the exchange of visits between the Pope and King Victor Emmanuel and with......

Yellow And Blue

The French Yellow Book on the origins of the war was published too close to Christmas to get in this and other countries the attention it deserves. It supplements, without in......

Dr. Goebbels' Christmas Cheer

The Christmas address delivered at the Ministry of Propaganda by the German Minister whom it gratifies The Times to style nudely "Goebbels " (though it so far relaxes as to call......

Politics In Japan

The " important announcement " foreshadowed for Wednesday of this week by a Japanese Foreign Office spokesman did not materialise. Instead a political crisis was threatened, and......

The American Safety-zone

The protest voiced by twenty-one American republics, headed by the United States, against the activities of belligerent warships in the so-called safety-zone of 30o miles round......