31 MARCH 1939, page 17

Birmingham Speech? " He Shrugged His Shoulders. " Yes," He

answered, " and what action has been taken since ? Birmingham was but a manoeuvre, or at best a momentary gesture of pique. I beg you not to be so sentimental. Take my advice.......

A Few Days Later I Went To Address A Meeting

of the Workers' Educational Association at Swindon. That was indeed worth while. There can be no doubt at all that the W.E.A. is fulfilling a great public service. To many......

Since Then, The Childish Suspicions Of My French Friend Have

buzzed around me like mosquitoes. There was some- thing else that he said. He said, " The British people will endure anything except discomfort." That was another mosquito. I......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON y HAVE found it sad, during the past days, to observe so I many men of property writhing and wriggling in the net of circumstance. No metaphors can be too......

By Such Incantations Do They Seek To Assuage Their...

Each fresh Hitlerian annexation is (after the first shock of numbed amazement) explained away as " not nearly so serious as it seemed at first." When the hurricane cloud of doom......

I Am Impelled To This Diatribe By The Effect Which

such spineless materialists produce, not only upon the morale of this country, but upon opinion abroad. Few foreigners know us sufficiently well to understand that, because a......