2 FEBRUARY 1940, page 6

There Is Character In Handwriting, No Doubt About It, Even

in so little of it as a mere signature. To that I owe the following discerning assessment, from a Californian correspondent whom I do not know: Excuse a personal remark : Your......

A Spectator's Notebook

A QUESTION which many people are rightly asking is, what amount of help is Finland receiving from abroad, and particularly from Great Britain. There are many reasons why the......

I Have Received Further Confirmation Of My Recent...

when regular R.A.F. officers are moved from one station to another they receive "disturbance allowance" to cover the cost and removal, but that in precisely similar circum-......

No One Will Object Very Seriously To The Cancellation Of

the 4 o'clock news bulletin. We get quite enough news to satisfy most of us as it is. But better spacing would improve matters. One, five and nine is much better than one-, sx......

Sir Chartres Biron's Death Removes A Very Individual...

legal and club—particularly Brooks's and the Garrick—circles. Sir Chartres appreciated greatly his posi- tion as Chief Magistrate at Bow Street (carrying with it the task of......

One Of The Many Advantages We Gain From The Tightening

of our ties with France is closer acquaintance with nomen- clatures as satisfying as they are unfamiliar. I see, for example, that one of the members of a delegation from the......

The Entry Into Being Of The Eire Navy On Monday

was a historic occasion. Apart from an aged vessel in Kingstown harbour, unknown to the books of reference, but described rather hesitantly as a gunboat by my chief source of......

Profits, Prices And Wages

O NE of the maxims which has been dinned into the public mind almost since the first day of the war is that the whole community will have to bear the burden and share the......