31 MARCH 1939, page 6

The Institution Of Broadcasts In English By Herr Hitler, As

a riposte to the B.B.C. broadcasts in German, provokes pertinent reflection on the value of the freedom of the Press. In Germany the British broadcasts are listened to eagerly,......

Every New Nazi Aggression Or Threat Of Aggression In Europe

is bound to make Americans more implacably anti- Nazi than ever. And for a very good reason. There are certain to be living today as good citizens of the Union tens or hun-......

A Spectator's Notebook

R UMOURS of Cabinet disagreement multiply, in spite of the Prime Minister's repudiation of them, with Sir John Simon's name prominent. If conscription is under discussion it is......

Hints For Divestors " For Those Who Are Overwhelmed By

civilisation I think it is necessary to our spiritual health that we should throw off our ordinary clothes."—The Archbishop of York last Saturday. The word " ordinary " seems of......

The Disappearance Of The London Mercury, Following Hard...

of the Criterion, leaves this country without a single literary journal better known than the paper in which the Mercury has been merged. The Mercury in its twenty years of......

No Final Judgement Can Yet Be Passed On The Results

of Mr. R. S. Hudson's tour in Eastern Europe, but it seems clear already that he has achieved not less but more than he aimed at. What was hoped was that he would be able to......

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A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Bowl " The whole ship is so arranged that no pagsenger need at any time be more than 20 feet from a bar."—The Times,......

A.r.p. Half-measures

I N the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Noel Baker reminded the Lord Privy Seal that it was now six months since the Munich crisis revealed that this country was utterly and......

Self-sufficiency " The Total Imports Of This Vast Empire,...

one-sixth of the earth's surface, are slightly less than those of Den- mark."—Daily Telegraph Moscow correspondent.......