31 JANUARY 1941, page 5

A Variety Of Possible Opinions May Be Held About Black

Record, the pamphlet embodying Sir Robert Vansittart's broadcast indictment of Germany (Hamish Hamilton, 6d.), about which the Prime Minister was questioned in the House of......

There Are Some Passages In The Despatch Of The Very

able ashington correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, printed n Wednesday, to which serious attention should be paid. 'siring of the popularity which Lord Halifax has already......

A Spectator's Notebook

I F, as seems certain, President Roosevelt appoints Mr. John Gilbert Winant to succeed Mr. Kennedy in London, he will be taking a step that can evoke nothing but sausfaction.......

The Idea Of Improving So-called Summer-time By Moving The...

on two hours instead of one is being seriously considered in Whitehall, not least by Mr. Bevin's department. The argu- ments in favour are pretty obvious. Either offices and......

From A Letter From San Francisco: "did I Tell , You

of our visit to the Fiji Islands? The native men there only wear loin- cloths, and to distinguish the policeman, who is also a native, from the common herd, his loin-cloth is......

Mr. Harold Nicolson Has Been Giving The Anglo-swedish...

London his views on the post-war "order." Speaking of Sweden, I am glad to be able to recommend what the A.A. would call the shortest practicable route to anyone thinking of......

Building For The Future

cc A FTER the war," said Mr. Attlee at Oxford last Friday, "we shall again have those healthy differences of opinion which are the life-blood of democracy." We undoubtedly......