29 DECEMBER 1939, page 6

I Have Noted With Considerable Pain The Opinions A Mr.

Kelly of Galway City has been enunciating regarding certain journals which he stigmatises as highbrow. They include Studies (The Universe), The Dublin Review, The Spectator, The......

* * * * Lord Lloyd's Booklet The British Case

has received a good deal of praise, and deservedly. Its argument is clearly and forcibly stated, and sustained on a high moral level. But if a second edition is called for,......

A Spectator's Notebook A Sentence In Raymond Gram Swing's...

on Saturday night made me wonder whether after all the last word on propaganda has been said yet. " There is no Allied propaganda in the United States," said Mr. Swing, " there......

It Is Stated That The Finns Are Thinking Of Arranging

for evacuated school-children to be set homework by post. Surely a gratuitous aggravation of the horrors of war. But a striking testimony, all the same, to the thoroughness of......

Someone Has Proposed A Joint Sitting Of The British And

French Parliaments, as a spectacular demonstration of the unity of the two countries. The suggestion is interesting, and in certain circumstances such a session might have......

Complaints About The British Censorship Might Be Less...

we knew more about the French. Students of the Paris Press are accustomed to the blank spaces which indicate where the censor's blue pencil has been active, but the cases where......

Homes For Heroes ?

N EARLY four months have passed since this country became involved in war, but the conflict is still in the initial stage, and the positions which will have to be faced when it......