* * * * The Appointment Of Sir Frederick Whyte
to be Director- General of the English-Speaking Union is presumably satisfactory both to Sir Frederick and to the Union, but major congratulations must go to the latter, for it......
A Spectator's Notebook
M R. W. E. DODD, the retiring American Ambassador in Berlin, has got back to his own country and said a little of what he thinks of the Nazi system, with the result that London......
The Selection Of Sir John Anderson As Candidate For The
Scottish Universities is admirable. Sir John, in fact, appears to possess all the qualifications. He is Scottish born, went to a Scottish school, took his degree at Edinburgh......
* * * * The Under-secretary To The Home Office,
Mr. .Geoffrey Lloyd, is going to Berlin to learn all about Germany's air-raid precautions, so that, profiting by her example, we may frustrate her bombers if they come.......
I Have Been Favoured With A Copy Of A Neat
little pamphlet which I understand Japanese booksellers are slipping into any book or parcel of books which they send to this country. It is entitled " Why ? Who ? How ?" and......
What Mr. Bernard Shaw Says Needs No Support From Me.
But with his condemnation of slovenly English every right- thinking man (as a former editor of this paper loved to put it) must most heartily concur. Mr. Shaw meant spoken......
I Ought Never To Have Mentioned Cauliflowers. I Know Nothing
about them—nothing at all. And when I suggested that a cauliflower that brings the grower in an eighth of a penny and sells eventually for 7d. owes a considerable part of the......
Air-raids And The Citizen
A RTICLES which have appeared in the last two issues of The Spectator on the subject of air-raid precau- tions, together with an illuminating examination of the existing......
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