10 DECEMBER 1943, page 9

Omniscience For All

By FRANCIS GOWER F OR anyone- who writes, and no less for anyone who attempts to read intelligently, life without an encyclopaedia is, as Plato put it, o Z Stun - Os — not......

Recorders Of War

By J. L. BODSON A PIN grown rusty from old age fastens into my war corre- spondent's licence a typed slip addressed to the Chief of the General Staff to military commanders......