30 AUGUST 1940, page 5

Being In Edinburgh During Last Week-end I Went To Bernard

Shaw's new play The Millionairess, which Scotland has had the opportunity of seeing before London. It is in no Apple Cart vein ; indeed the chief question it raises is whether......

We Have Not, For Some Reason, Heard Of The R.a.f.

bombing Essen lately. I have just been given one very sufficient reason, on decidedly good authority. An English business man whose particular work has taken him to Essen at......

Heard In The Stores.

Woman who knows: " Sir Philip Joubert says he can't tell a German aeroplane by the sound. I can." JANUs.......

What Exactly Sir George Paish Did Say To Senator Wheeler

of Montana will probably never be known. When two versions of a conversation a deux disagree there is no known means of de- ciding between them, except on the ground of inherent......

Hesitant Though I Am About Impugning The Arithmetic Of The

Times, I find my credulity rather strained by the declara- tion in its leading article on Wednesday that " in the settlement of 1919 nearly a billion and a hall of Magyars were......

Curiously Enough I Encountered More Threepenny-bits In...

hours in Edinburgh than I have in the last six months in London. The reason eludes me ; I simply state the fact. * * *......

We Learned From The Wireless On Wednesday Evening That The

Queen, in the course of a tour of industrial districts that day, observed, " They are very good at darts," and on Thursday morning that Mr. Churchill, visiting Ramsgate, said to......

What Admirable Ambassadors They Make, These English...

gone as guests to the United States. " There appmrs to be only one opinion here,' ; a friend writes to me from New York, " concerning the youngsters who have arrived_ admiration......

A Spectator's Notebook

E V EN if the precise purpose of the scattered night-raids by single machines or groups of two or three is not perfectly clear, it is fairly obvious what the Germans are aiming......

The Battle Of Endurance

T HERE are many reasons for thinking that the nation will be called on to face in the next few weeks the ordeal that it always knew it must face. Those weeks are critical for......