6 MARCH 1942, page 4

The Observer May Have Difficult Days Ahead. " The Observer

has been Garvin, and Garvin the Observer, for thirty-four years," said that paper's leading article last Sunday. It falls to the pro- prietors, therefore, not merely to find a......

A Spectator's Notebook L Ady Astor's Letter In The Times,...

that now that the Prime Minister has reconstructed his Cabinet Parliament should take a long recess and leave Ministers to get on with their jobs, raises an important question.......

The Selection Of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longman At

Government candidate for the Grantham vacancy seems a sound move. Sir Arthur, who, among other qualifications, lives g Grantham, will be able to speak in the House on......

Who, I Wonder, Started The Doctrine Which Is Obtaining Such

mischievous currency, that the subject-races of the Empire have refused to fight for it because of the shocking way in which we have maladministered them in the past? The......

De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum, But Mr. J. L. Garvin,

I am glad to say, is very far from dead, and there is no reason why the tributes justly due to a great journalist retiring after a long and notable editorship should not take......

Braced And Compact ?

w HAT of the faith and fire within us, Men who march away? " What of the faith and fire within us, men a nd women who live and work at home? The men who march a way have their......