3 FEBRUARY 1939, page 15

I Do Not Blame My Tyneside Questioner For Displaying...

Under modern dynamics even the most alert among us adopt a " That's Shell, that was " expression when observing current events. The paradoxes of one week become the commonplaces......

The British People, In Fact, Have For Years Been The

victims of too little information and too many phrases. Until 1935 they crooned themselves to sleep with the lullaby of " collective security," using the words as some magic......

I Replied That, Before I Could Answer That Question I

must ask her to define what she meant by " imperialist." For instance, the Italian war against Abyssinia was certainly an " imperialist " war since it was waged for the purpose......

Left-wing Slogans Are Even More Detached From Reality....

careful study. There are the old Marxist formulas of 1848. And there are the later formulas of our own Gollancz-Laski period. The adherents to the latter school are apt, a......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON S IR ARNOLD WILSON adorns the sombre loneliness of his mind with a comradely gift for quotation. There are those, I know, who contend that Sir Arnold quotes......

How Came It That On This Historic Occasion Parliament Should

merely have hemmed and hawed? The answer is simple. Nobody had really had time to digest Herr Hitler's appeasement pottage of the night before. Three months ago that speech......