4 AUGUST 1939, page 14

It Was Blind Mouths Such As These Who Misled The

German Government in 1914 and who exposed us to the accusation that by such private assurances we had inveigled Germany into an ambush which proved her destruction. No German......

We Are Told By Mr. Chamberlain's Newspapers That To Propose

the reassembly of Parliament is " only another form of criticism of the Prime Minister." Surely such a statement is both dangerous and unfair. Dangerous, because it implies a......

Loomed Over Southwark ; Below Throbbed The Fierce Red Eye

of Mars.......

It Would Be Too Early, As Yet, To Proclaim Our

terms of peace. Any such pronouncement (and it should be made pragmatically, perhaps even unilaterally) should follow and not precede a water-tight agreement with Russia. It......

The Only Hope Of Maintaining Peace Lies In Our Being

able to convince Herr Hitler that a German victory is not a physical possibility, but that a general peace, honourable to Germany, can be made a physical possibility. We must......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON U NLESS some thunderbolt intervenes, the House of Commons will adjourn this week for the summer recess. The hilarity which usually enlivens the last day of......

In The Foreground Of The Controversy Stands The Prime...

assertion that he sees no reason to anticipate another crisis in the near future. His critics, on the other hand, are of the opinion that Herr Hitler will almost cer- tainly......

There Are Those Also Who Contend That The Slightest Indi-

cation of lack of confidence in the present Government will encourage the militant Powers to believe that British opinion is divided on the issue of resistance. Such an argument......