4 MARCH 1938, page 6

Lord Halifax Gets At Last The Office That Seemed Marked

out for him seven years ago. In 193r, as Lord Irwin, he came home after his five-years' tenure of the Viceroyalty of India. A Labour Government was then in office, without a......

What, I Have Been Trying To Imagine, Did Mr. Amery

mean when he said at Manchester the other day (if; as I assume, The Times reported him accurately) that " when Mussolini invaded Abyssinia the leader of the sanctions movement......

I Get From A Well-informed Austrian, Who Writes As A

matter of prudence from outside the country, information which confirms rather strikingly what comes to me from other equally well-informed sources. Austria is by n) means so......

* * * * There Is A Good Deal To

be said both for and against the proposed B.B.C. debate on the future of the German colonies, but much more, in my judgement, against than for. I have no belief in burking......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HERE is no very convincing way of gauging the opinion of the country as a whole on the Chamberlain-Eden question, but all the signs are that the Prime Minister's position has......

Reports Of A Discussion On The 194o Olympic Games By

the International Athletic Federation at Paris on Tuesday, when only the Norwegian delegate was opposed to the holding of the Games at Tokyo, give, I believe, a quite false......

Defiling England

IN recent years the necessity of protecting the beauties of rural and urban England has become more and more apparent ; and much has been said about it but little has been done.......