19 MAY 1939, page 21

Anxiety And The Crisis

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Mr. Harold Nicolson's article of May 12th is to my mind both right and wrong in condemning the Government's policy of keeping the public in......

Aspects Of Conscription

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Mr. C. Brian Phillips, of Bootham School, fears that military training may have a brutalising effect on the minds of those trained and may......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator] Is' Not Fair Of

The Spectator to say that Ulster men can enlist in the Territorials. Ulster has no Territorials. We have in County Antrim a reserve garrison battery of artillery, and recently a......

Christianity And War

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—The last thing I wish to do is to prolong a correspond- ence which is unlikely to lead to anything because Admiral Eyres and myself are......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator]

SIR,—Owing to the fact that so much publicity has been given to the word " conscription " in Press descriptions of the Government's new policy for six months' compulsory train-......