4 OCTOBER 1940, page 5

A Spectator's Notebook Omeone In Authority, I Hope, Is...

serious thought to the immensely important question how London is to order is life a month hence, when summer-time ends, and the black- out begins at four o'clock in the......

A Peer In The Home Counties Had A Ten-acre Field

where his cows grazed, but which was less useful than it might have been • because it was waterless. A few days ago the Germans dropped a bomb there, which most conveniently......

While Most Legal Business, In Both Branches Of The...

has dwindled to almost nothing, solicitors, at any rate, are being kept much busier than usual over one not very lucrative activity, the making of wills. The reasons are......

Everyone Will Agree That If Lieut. Davies Was To Be

given the George Cross it is entirely right and fitting that (together with • one of his magnificently courageous staff) he should be the first recipient of it.. Such an award......

Suggestions, In More Or Less Urgent Terms, That The Military

should be called in to reinforce certain of the more heavily overstrained defence services multiply. A writer in T he Times, I see, proposes that soldiers be detached for the......

W. H. Davies' Death Must Not Go Unnoticed. He Was

a poet who belonged less to any particular epoch or generation than Illy other writer I have known. His vagabond existence as a Young man gave him the hard, gritty experience......

The Brigand Trio

T HE new order which Germany, Italy and Japan are to join in establishing in Europe and Asia is in truth the oldest of all old orders, the tyranny exercised by those who think......