20 DECEMBER 1935, page 7

As To The Whole Business, My Experience Has, I Suppose,

been everyone's, that the dominant emotion provoked in the first instance by the Paris news was not indignation —that came later—but stupefaction. " Simply in- credible " was......

I Cannot Refrain From Reproducing Last Sunday's Observer...

IT IS PEACE THE PLAN HOLDS THE FIELD /TO PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVE THE LEAGUE ON TRIAL SANCTIONS ARE DEAD MINISTERS AND THEE CRITICS Ill' J. L. GARVIN......

A Spectator's Notebook

C OMMENT on the international situation written, as any commentary here must be, before the debates in the two Houses is necessarily restrained. And in any case it is only......

It Will Be Hard On Mr. Eden, Who Has Not

made one false step, if he fails to get the Foreign Office now. But the ease for Sir Austen at this juncture is strong. * * * *......

It Is Not Often That After-dinner Speaking Reaches So High

a level as it did at the Toynbee Hall Golden Jubilee dinner last Friday. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir John Simon, on their day and their subject, are unsurpassed, and......

I Am Indulgently, But Very Justly, Castigated By A Legal

friend for referring to the " dock " in a note last week on an incident in a county court. Delete " dock " and substitute " witness-box." JANus,......

President Masaryk And Dr. Benes Have Often Been Compared...

Washington and Hamilton and with. Botha and Smuts. No such historical parallels are more than approximate, but Washington and Masaryk had much in common in relation to their......

Dr. Goebbels' Deputy, In An Endeavour To Placate The Chinese

Minister in Berlin, who protested against the tone of a reference to Chinese in Herr Hitler's Mein Kampf, is understood to have promised that Herr Hith r would withdraw or amend......

Perhaps; By The Way, Not Everyone Has Heard Of The

American who was discussing with an Englishman rather vague on history the War of 1812. " That," he. observed incidentally, " was when your people burned Wash- ington." " Really......