29 MARCH 1940, page 3

Even In Peace-time The Ordinary Private Member Is A Far

busier man than the public, or a large part of the Press, seems to realise. The amount of work which his constituents expect of him is constantly increasing. He is the universal......

Feeding The People

In an article on another page Mr. Seebohm Rowntree reviews a book that is of immediate importance—Feeding the People in War-time, by Sir John Orr and David Lubbock. Its......

Evacuation Schemes—an Inquiry

There is now available ample data relating to the problem of evacuated school-children, and it ought before this to have been the subject of scientific investigation on a wide......

Since Early November, Unhappily, The Newly-established...

has tended to decline. When the Blitzkrieg failed to materialise, and boredom descended upon legislators and the public alike, the Government Whips were able to set about......

Six Months Of Parliament

Our Parliamentary correspondent writes : In September last a moribund House of Commons—its days were already numbered—came suddenly back to vigorous life. This new and unwonted......

Readers Of The Spectator Who Would Be Willing To Help

in increasing further the steadily rising circulation of the paper are asked to read the notice on page 461 of this issue. Their co-operation in the manner there suggested would......

Turkish And Allied Co-operation

German diplomacy will be almost as hard put to it to drive a wedge between the Allies and Turkey as between Britain and France ; for our association with Turkey rests upon......