This Seems A Suitable Moment To Recall—though I Think I
must have mentioned it here some time or other—a statement which General von Blomberg, the former German War Minister, made to a friend of mine a few years ago. " One thing," he......
Soho, I Suppose, Has Its Own Basis Of Appraisal. There
were no doubt good reasons, or at any rate reasons of some kind, why certain Italian cafes should have had their windows broken the day Mussolini went to war, while others,......
The Lapse Of Time Makes A Distressing Mess Of Considered
judgements in these days. I received this week the latest—I assume it to be the latest—of the European Letters issued by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi in connexion with his......
A Spectator's Notebook
I F there is tragedy, there may equally be hope in the precision with which 1940 is repeating 1914 in France. It is true, no doubt, that hopes enough have been frustrated......
Just Outside My Flat An Elderly Person Stood Talking, And
an elderly dog sat patiently by her on the pavement. I caught one sentence as I passed, and it touched me strangely. " He's getting old. Of course, he's all I've got really."......
If Sir Stafford Cripps' Aeroplane Trips Round Balkan...
his way to Moscow have anything of the desired effect, there and at his ultimate destination, we may decide to amend an ancient epigram, to read " Unus homo nobis volitando......
The Brilliant Attack By R.a.f. Squadrons In Egypt On Italian
aerodromes in Libya and Eritrea deserves attention for more reasons than one. Soon after the war opened an airman friend told me that in his view the right man for the post of......
The Tales Of The Detection Of German Submarines In The
present war are many and strange, but (as has just been pointed out to me) one told in this column a month ago carried strangeness well beyond credibility. It was stated that "......
The Jackal's Gamble I T Is Not Worth While Wasting Space
over the application of epithets to Italy. Mr. Mackenzie King has called her a carrion-crow. Several American papers prefer vul- ture. But by general consent jackal is......
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