5 JULY 1940, page 9

The Fact That The Republican Candidate For The United States

Presidency, Mr. Wendell Willkie, and the present President hold almost identical views on foreign policy means that a situation which might have paralysed the United States for......

A Spectator's Notebook

C ONFUSED as the situation is internationally, it is hardly less so at home. The treatment of friendly aliens is one obvious case in point. The Home Office is urged on one side......

As An Italian Paper Has Significantly Hastened To Remark,...

truth about Marshal Balbo's death will probably never be known. The latest version, that his aeroplane was shot down by Italian anti-aircraft guns, opening fire on an imaginary......

The Demilitarisation Or The Channel Islands Came As Some-...

of a shock to British newspaper readers, who first heard of it last Saturday, June 29th. But the local Jersey papers had long since published full reports of the sittings of the......

This Week Has Seen The Absorption Of The Last 50

per cent. of the unemployed quartet of experts whose apparent super- fluity in the Government's eyes has more than once been remarked on in this column. Sir Arthur Salter was......

In Vice-admiral Muselier General De Gaulle Has Found A...

collaborator, whose influence with the French fleet will not be negligible. Though his name has been little known in this country the choice in fact lay between him and Admiral......

This Is Vouched For As Fact. An Evacuee Child Asked

. an evacuee teacher how far away France was. The latter replied with laudable veracity, "I don't know." So the child tried another teacher. This time an estimate was ventured:......

The Peril Of Ireland

G REAT BRITAIN today is threatened with imminent invasion. An essential condition of its successful defence is the successful defence of Ireland. And of the successful defence......