19 MARCH 1943, page 14

War Crimes And Punishment

G. Lyall's letter in last week's Spectator is very much to the point. The liquidation of Hitler and Co., including subsidiary concerns in Italy, Rumania, and elsewhere, by......

Nettles

Sur,—In his delightful article in The Spectator of March tath Sir Stephen Tallents does not expect anyone to love the stinging nettle and recalls no poet who has praised it in......

Mr. Gandhi's Fast

SIR,—Wise and fair as you usually are in your judgements, I think you have been less than just in your recent comments on Indian affairs. You agree with the Viceroy that Mr.......

Sm,—i Have Just Been Reading The Interesting Article By Sir

Stephen Tallents on " Nettles." I think it might interest you and Sir Stephen that after making cream cheeses the Sussex farmers' wives always laid them on nettles to ripen—they......

A People's Hansard

SIR,—I am obliged to Mr. Weinstein for calling my attention to the official report of the incident in the House of Commons on February loth to which I made reference in my......

Country Life

An unusual sight in England has been almost a commonplace this won_ derful season: stock grazing on the wheats. The winter-sown corn had become—in that delightful......

The Speaker

Sta,—In writing in " Marginal Comment " of the great Speakers of the past, Mr. Harold Nicolson omits one who was perhaps the greatest of them all—Sir Thomas More. More was one......