* * * * If It Is True That The
R.A.F. have set fire to the Reichstag their achievement should create a singular fellow-feeling between them and Marshal Goering, who did the same thing himself some years ago.......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE efficiency with which daily papers are facing the present 1 abnormal situation is remarkable. But the weeklies have their difficulties too, and it would not be astonishing......
Magnificent As The Conduct Of All The Civilian Services Has
been through the ordeal of the past weeks, all the men and women staffing them are human, and a time must come when fatigue and sleeplessness have effects that are irresistible.......
Curious Rumours Slip Through About General Weygand. The...
I mention them does not mean that I give them credence. The late (whether he is also the present is not quite clear) commander-in-chief has left the Vichy Cabinet and is to go......
What The National Petrol Stocks Are I Do Not Know,
but in spite of the admitted fact that there have been some losses by enemy action they ought to be good, for the Government obviously budgeted for a very extensive consumption......
Sir John Anderson Has Come Under Heavy Criticism, Some Of
which should clearly have been addressed to the War Office, for his handling of the aliens question, but he is to be very warmly congratulated on the Committee he has appointed......
A Notable Fact Regarding Our Airmen—i Fancy The Minister For
Education referred to it in a speech within the past week— is that the great majority of them must have been born in or immediately after the last war. We used to be told in a......
A Decisive Hour
T HIS has been described as the most critical week in the history of our realm, and impossible though it is to pass completely dispassionate verdicts in the midst of crisis,......