29 MARCH 1940, page 6

I Have Been Reading A Little Belatedly The Minutes Of

the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Publica- tions and Debates Reports at which Commander King-Hall attempted in vain to convince his fellow-members that Hansard......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HIS week's American mail has brought me a variety of letters and cuttings which throw some light on the extra- ordinary medley of forces playing on public opinion in the......

Readers Of Advertisements Of A Certain Brand Of...

diverted, or are meant to be, by aphorisms allegedly Oriental and epigrammatic in form and prefaced by the mendacious affirmation, " Confucius say." Now I see a London daily......

The New Colonial Co-operation Between The French And...

should bring comfort to an Anglo- Canadian friend of mine who used years ago to be seriously concerned about St. Pierre and Miquelon. I doubt whether anyone except......

In Regard To My Last Week's Paragraph On The Subject

of the number of the beast it has been pointed out that a variety of results would be obtained by a judicious mani- pulation of figures. I was not unconscious of the fact, and I......

Canals Are Coming Rather More Into The Public Eye And

the Minister of Transport recently intimated that some financial assistance might be forthcoming for them. Accord- ing to Mr. George Cadbury the canals are in such a bad way......

The Purpose Of France

I N M. Reynaud's broadcast address to the French I people even an English reader can detect the note of authentic leadership—that of a man confident of the resolution of France,......