3 MARCH 1939, page 15

He Was Engaged By A Famous Film-magnate To Write Scenarios.

He was offered an enormous salary and a hand- some maintenance allowance. He travelled to Hollywood. The weeks passed without Mr. Bromfield being called upon to make any......

I Am Impelled To These Sad Thoughts By A Pamphlet

which reached me this week from the United States of America. It is called England, A Dying Oligarchy; and is written, in a mood of serious anger, by Mr. Louis Bromfield. In his......

Having In This Manner Placed The Barons Of Runnymede (or

their disgraceful epigones) firmly in the saddle, Mr. Bromfield proceeds to accuse them of " the murder of the aged mother." The mother in question is not, as one might suppose,......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON 0 NE of the interesting things about the Munich settle- ment is that it should have proved so unsettling. Even in our own temperate country friends still eye......

Mr. Bromfield, Having Abandoned The Banks Of The Nonette For

the shores of Lake Erie, having left Senlis for Ohio, has become i to per cent. American. He accuses us of decadence, hypocrisy and cowardice. He claims that in no country of......

I Confess That All This Saeva Indignatio Puzzles Me. Mr.

Bromfield is by nature a charming and courteous man of letters. Why should this Munich business so distort human judgement and courtesy that it drives agreeable people to gibe......