The Chinese Ambassador On The Present War (at A Lunch
on Wednesday concerned with the needs of Chinese universities): " You know that, when two boxers fight, one tries to get at the other's chin to strike a knock-out blow. China's......
A Report Of The Speech Delivered At Chester On Tuesday
in support of Lord Baldwin's Fund by Herr Gottfried Treviranus, who was Minister of Communications in Dr. Bruning's last Cabinet, carries me back to a brilliant spring day some......
I See Little Basis For The Charge That The B.b.c.
publishes too much depressing matter in its news bulletins. That the balance of the bulletins should be distorted in any way would be a serious matter, but I have seen no......
A Spectator's Notebook
V ARIOUS scraps of information--or allegation—regarding the state of the German railways, e g., as to the with- drawal of a number of express trains, has crept into the English......
I Am All In Favour Of Mixing Metaphors When The
mélange gives pungency to the sentiment expressed. So that I am inclined to approve both the form and the content of the observation made to me by a well-informed friend this......
My Remarks Last Week Regarding " The Apparent Idiocy Of
leaving the responsibilities attaching to the post of Chief Divisional Food Officer for London to a man of 70 living in Brussels " (Major-General Sir Reginald Ford) has elicited......
One Of The Last Issues Of Mr. Gandhi's Paper Harijan
to reach me contains a long and interesting account of a recent meeting between Mr. Gandhi and the well-known Japanese Christian leader, Dr. Kagawa. If it is rightly reported,......
The A.r.p. Balance-sheet
S IR JOHN ANDERSON took up what is in effect the post of Minister of Civilian Defence at the beginning of November, and next week, in reply to a motion by the Labour Opposition......