29 NOVEMBER 1940, page 5

" We Cannot Say That The News Of Koritza Is

altogether bad. It has, in fact, its good points. It proves incontrovertibly that Italy has no aggressive intentions against Greece."— Rome Radio, November 23rd. Quite......

The Fact That Lord Reith Has Said Little About His

recon- struction plans does not mean that he is thinking equally little about them. Very much the contrary, I believe. The field is a new one for him—or, indeed, for anyone......

It Is A Nice Question Whether Lord Rothermere Gained Fame

from association with his brother, Lord Northcliffe, or lost it through being overshadowed by him. Northcliffe was un- questionably a great journalist. Rothermere was not, and......

A Soldier To Whom I Gave A Lift In London

one morning this week was on forty-eight hours' leave. He was stationed at Arundel and his home is at Scarborough. He could naturally not afford the rail fare, and was depending......

Corsets Are Not A Subject On Which I Speak With

any authority. It is only so far as they are at the moment assuming a semi-political importance—owing to a threatened cut in the supply—that I feel called on to take cognisance......

The Writer Of A Letter In Last Week's Spectator, Justly

castigat- ing one or other of the many offences of Janus, brings matters to a head by asking regarding that individual, " He is not by any chance a member of the Roman Church? "......

The Reform Of

PARTY POLITICS 1 N a letter published in The Spectator last week Canon Roger Lloyd closed a correspondence which was started by his own article, " Back to Party Politics? " The......

A Spectator' S Notebook

Y OU might say of Lord Craigavon and Ulster l'etat c'est moi, in the sense not that the late Prime Minister was a dicta- tor, but that no more typically characteristic......

Someone Has Written To The Times Suggesting That This Is

a fit moment to recall Charles Dickens' toast " Gentlemen, I give you America and England, and may there never be any- thing between us but the Atlantic." But is it? Had the......