6 SEPTEMBER 1940, page 5

In Some London Shops, At Any Rate, Victoria Plums Are

priced at tenpence a pound ; in a Kentish market forty-six pounds of selected Victorias are sold for eighteenpence. Again in Kent the average price for Czars has been......

A Spectator's Notebook

CANADIAN soldier to whom I gave a lift on Sunday re- minded me of something I ought to have commented on ore—the extent of the debt that the whole Commonwealth es to Mr.......

We Are Allowed To Know So Few Details About Air-raid

damage in this country that a message by the well-known American journalist, H. R. Knickerbocker, to his New York papers, quoted in Wednesday's Daily Express, is of particular......

Sir J. J. Thomson Was Undoubtedly Cambridge's Greatest...

the death of Lord Rutherford, and he has been verY distinguished Master of Trinity. Wide though his interests were he had in some respects the scientist's one-track r niod. A......

Readers Of The Spectator, And In Particular Of Its Literary

lumps, have special reason to deplore the death of Christopher obhouse, killed in action at the early age of thirty. The uthor of works of high merit on Charles James Fox and on......

I Had Meant Last Week To Salute The New Daily

paper France, but pressure on space forbade. Nothing is more essential than that the growing French community, military and civilian, in Great Britain should have a paper which......

The Second Year

W E have this week passed from the first to the second year of war; and in weighing its possibilities it is well to remember always that the Prime Minister is think- ing and......