3 OCTOBER 1941, page 10

The Best Of Them All Was The Gipsy Story, Which

I regret to see is now dying down. It had many variations. The more reckless among us told the story as having happened to a man we knew down in Wiltshire. The more cautious......

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON - FORD BALDWIN OF BEWDLEY (owing perhaps to the I speed with which the Conservative Party forgets its idols) has not remained a focus of controversy and has......

I Am Not Quite Sure Whether I Have Followed Lord

Baldwin's third principle and " steeled myself against the attribution of false motive." Lord Baldwin himself has suffered cruelly from such false attribution, and has in fact......

How Sagacious Also Was Lord Baldwin's Second Principle, "...

laugh at the Opposition if they make a mistake." It may indeed occur that some retired satrap, who has spent responsible years in the administration of Empire, may be tempted to......

I Trust That Mr. Tom Harrisson, Or Some Other Gustave

Le Bon, is keeping a careful chart of public credulity and noting the life-story of the several rumours which arise. It is com- forting to feel that the British public have a......

Nor Was Lord Baldwin's Advice Under This Heading Dictated...

by his knowledge of the special technique of self- preservation which any effective politician must acquire. It was dictated by a keen understanding of the true function- ing of......

* Mr. William James, In His Principles Of Psychology, Has

devoted many admirable lines to the relief experienced by a person who suddenly rids his conscience of unnecessary pre- occupations. The instance which he furnishes is that of......