29 MAY 1941, page 5

The Welcome And Well-deserved Appointment Of General...

a Field-Marshal in the British Army has, I see, revived the story, which is perhaps not as generally familiar as I thought it was, of the incident at the Conference of......

The Ministry Of Transport Has Issued Detailed...

immobilisation of cars in case of invasion. "The distribution head, magneto or fuel-injection pump," it says, " should be smashed with a hammer, and high-tension leads removed,"......

Comment On The Hess Affair Has Pretty Much Died Down,

and until there are new facts to base it on that is just as well. But there is one point on which obscurity might be cleared up with advantage. It was freely asserted when Hess......

It Was A Singularly Happy Idea On The Part Of

Miss (I presume her to be Miss) Evelyn Turner, who was Chief Escort for the British children who crossed the Atlantic in the ' Samaria' as the guests of American families, to......

But Did He Try To Establish Contact At Any Time

before his arrival by air? Did he address a letter to Lord Clydesdale, or the Duke of Hamilton, as he became in 194o? Sir Archibald Sinclair, in the House of Commons last week,......

A Spectator's Notebook

A PART from the obvious lessons to be drawn from the battle in the North Atlantic, two or three points of secondary interest emerge. As to whether the distressing loss of the '......

America Decides

T HE basic theme of what is rather singularly called President Roosevelt's fireside talk—actually one of the most momentous utterances ever made by an American statesman—was in......