3 JULY 1941, page 8

I Have Never Till Today Been Rather Thankful That Lord

Oxford —Mr. Asquith—is dead. But I am glad he did not live to see a wnter he so unreservedly admired as he did Mr. P. G. Wode- house broadcasting from a German radio-station,......

I Have Only Lately, I Regret To Say, Discovered The

existence of another Spectator—published in the Gold Coast. A quota- tion from it which reaches me consists of an obituary-notice. It is not as recent as I could have wished,......

A Spectator's Notebook

E STIMATES of the duration of the war have no excessive value; psychological and other incalculable factors play too large a part for reliable prediction to be possible. But......

Mr. Hoover's Violent Attack On Soviet Russia, And His Oppo-

sition to any thought of American co-operation with an administration which he stigmatises in damning language, interest me a good deal, for they recall a conversation I had......

Nothing I Have Heard Or Read Dispels The Conviction That

the egg-order is a gigantic blunder which Lord Woolton will still have to have the courage to cancel. That it will result on a large scale in the killing of laying fowls for......

The Industrial Front

T HE appointment of Lord Beaverbrook to be Minister of Supply in succession to Sir Andrew Duncan comes at a moment when action taken on the home front may turn the scale in the......

In Memoriam Of

MISS MERCY ARYELE LOMOKO OF ACCRA. Late Miss Mercy Aryele Lomoko of Accra, whose blessed and happy memory shall never be in oblivion, and whose intelligence of demise faltered......