7 JULY 1939, page 17

Herr Von Ribbentrop, During His Unfortunate Tenure Of The...

of Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, proved un- able to see the wood because of the trees; today he fails to believe in our armour because of the chinks. He is well aware......

A Hush Of Preparedness Is Descending Upon This Island, Yet

from the hedgerows still come some chirps of appease- ment. I received this morning a letter dated from the Langham Hotel and signed " Mother of a Wykehamist." In this letter I......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON T H ERE occurs in Man Kampf a passage which every British statesman should learn by heart It has often been quoted, but it deserves to be quoted again. It......

Our National Tendency Towards Opportunism, Which Is...

expression in a phrase, which fre- quently occurs in speeches and State documents: " Let us judge each case as it arises and on its merits." We like that phrase since it......

I Doubt Whether The British Public Will Be Deluded By

any such stratagems. They remember that, at the time of Munich, they were similarly assured that self-determina- tion was the only principle which the Fiihrer desired to invoke.......