7 APRIL 1939, page 14

Last Friday Was An Almost Equally Historical Occasion....

read again the solemn words " His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all the support in their power," I hear again the......

When The Historians Come To Examine The Events Of The

last six months they will be perplexed by the fact that Mr. Chamberlain, after his recent change of policy, has enhanced rather than diminished his hold upon the country. It is......

I Am At Times Amazed At The Daring Displayed By

ordinary private Members. It may be that I have an exaggerated sense of occasion, but nothing on this earth could have in- duced me on that Friday afternoon to rise and comment......

Such Explanations Although Correct Are Insufficient: Some...

must be defined. The electorate of this country are not permanently swayed by a statesman who comforts them in their material anxieties unless he also possesses some outstanding......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON H ISTORICAL occasions have a strange effect upon human attention ; what one remembers afterwards is not so much the central event as some incidental episode......