5 MAY 1939, page 14

My Study Of This Truly Interesting Speech Was Interrupted By

the entry into my compartment of two elderly mer- chants of the City of London. They also read their evening newspapers with attention. At the very moment when the train arrived......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON I T was a strange experience, last Friday, to watch the stages by which Herr Hitler's Reichstag speech per- colated into London. The House of Commons found......

When I Reached My Club The Page-boy, With Trained Dex-

terity, was padding and smoothing with the aid of a quite ordinary clothes-brush the first bulletins upon the green baize, studded as a bagatelle-board with sharp pins. In his......

For The Moment, Therefore, It Is Neither The Jews, Nor

the Bolsheviks, nor yet the Social Democrats, nor even the Traitors of Versailles, who are the central enemy; it is Presi- sident Roosevelt who is Enemy No. One. By thus concen-......

Yet When In Daylight The House Suddenly Adjourns, The Effect

is even more morose. The atmosphere of a theatre after a matinee (with all those coffee-cups around) is sadder even than the picture of charwomen enclosing stalls in dust-......

Since Then I Have Heard Younger And Less Inert People

echoing the same toothless optimism. For them it was a " hopeful sign " that Herr Hitler's vituperations were concentrated upon President Roosevelt and that his refer- ences to......