7 JUNE 1940, page 6

Among British Citizens Endeavouring To Be Helpful In...

way at the present time is, apparently, Sir Thomas Beecham, who was interviewed by the New York Herald Tribune, when " on his way to Australia under orders of the British......

A Spectator's Notebook

I T is a pity that there should be any kind of misunderstand- ing between the B.E.F., or, rather, individual members of it, and the Royal Air Force. But comment that during the......

The Writer Of A Letter Which Reached Me From New

York this week—an Englishman—mentioned that not long ago Major G. F. Eliot, generally recognised as the first military critic in the United States, said to him, " Why don't your......

Whatever The Future Of Gibraltar In War And Peace May

be, one fact is worth remembering about it, particularly in view of the claims of exuberant Spanish Falangists. We hold Gibraltar today not as a mere prize of war, but as part......

The News That Sir Arnold Wilson, M.p., Is Reported Missing.

believed killed, will sadden many hearts, for exigent though Sir Arnold's collaborators sometimes found him, his gallant and tireless spirit commanded general admiration. He was......

True, And Perhaps Instructive. A Traveller In A Convoy Cart

ing evacuated soldiers to a British port was asked how he stoi .1 the constant aerial bombing to which the ships were subjected. " It would have been all right," he said, " if......

The Invasion Of Britain ?

T HE question of the invasion of Britain was an academic one from 1815 to 1914. It is not so today. Nor can it be regarded as a merely possible but improbable contingency, as it......