31 MAY 1940, page 3

Mr. Duff Cooper, In Giving An Account Of His Ministry,

did little more than explain the obvious difficulty of combining speed with accuracy in information, and the constant anxiety lest something should be revealed which would......

The Epic Of The R.a.f.

Among the records of the military events of the last three weeks, most of them disappointing, there has been one unfailing cause of encouragement and congratulation in the......

On Wednesday We Had The Second Reading Of The Finance

Bill, which would ordinarily have been a considerable parlia- mentary occasion. This debate aroused only a tepid interest. It was opened by Sir Kingsley Wood, followed by Mr.......

At Question Time The Greatest Interest Has Been Shown In

matters concerning the Local Defence Volunteers and other methods for dealing with attacks from overseas. For the first time since 1805, when Napoleon's great army was assembled......

Voices On The Air

Mr. Duff Cooper has made so admirable a beginning as Minister of Information, and his own frequent broadcasts have so effectively met the needs of the particular occasion, that......

The Arrest Of Fascists

In these days of desperate crisis the country cannot afford to take the least risk in regard to persons, aliens or British, whose loyalty to this country is suspect. There was......

Food Distribution

Lord Woolton, the Minister of Food, gives the assurance that a complete local organisation for the distribution of food is in being, providing against military emergencies which......

The Week In Parliament

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: Under the threatening shadow of events abroad our debates have an air of unreality. We seem to be living in the pages of Thomas Hardy's......