5 JULY 1940, page 17

The Collapse Of France

Snt,—A perusal during the week-end of many newspaper articles on the collapse of France makes it apparent that what I believe to be the real reason for that tragic disaster is,......

The Aliens Problem

Sta,—In Czarist Russia, a regime so utterly disregardful of human suffering, the political exiles transported to Siberia were allowed to be accompanied by their wives. Not......

Sir, —a Fortress Having Free Access-to The Whole Outside...

be called "beleaguered." -England has that free access-; yet Dr. Shackleton Bailey says We are-now -living- in a beleaguerectfortress."- It is, on the contrary, Germany and the......

Oliver Cromwell

Sta,—Mr. Hilaire Belloc objects to my reference to Cromwell as "this Cambridgeshire farmer." He was a farmer just as Mr. Belloc is a writer and I am a lawyer. Mr. Belloc tells......

Britain The Besieger

Snt,—May I take exception to the heading in your correspondence columns "The Siege of Britain "? For a "fortress" to be besieged it must be surrounded by the enemy in such a way......

The Pgtain Administration

Sin,—You write : "there would seem to be no justification for the suggestions rather freely made in this country that the Government, (of Marshal Petain) is not constitutionally......

Sit,—marshal Petain's Contention That One Of The Causes...

French disaster was "too few children" is literally true. On the eve of the Battle of France there were half a million less French soldiers under arms than at a corresponding......

Snt,—may I Be Allowed To Thank You For Publishing "a.

B. C.'s " letter in your issue of June 8th regarding the Aliens Problem? The attitude adopted by the authorities is indeed one of intolerance, even cruelty. Indiscriminately,......

Sra,—it Is Ungenerous And Unjust To Gibe At The Faults

of French leadership without also remembering that the war effort of the French people has been immensely greater than our own. Fair-minded British opinion recognises the......

Too Few Children"

Sia,—While it is evidently true that the immediate cause of the collapse in France is "too few tanks and too many traitors," it is also true that there have for several......