* * Letters Do Get Through To This Country From
unoccupied France. One reached me last Monday—November Ath. I looked to see when it was posted. The date was August ath. jANUS.......
With The Death Of Eric Gill A Singularly Distinctive Figure
passes from the twentieth-century stage. The long beard, the monkish gown, the biretta, made him that to the outward eye, and the variety of his accomplishments justify the......
While On This Matter Of Reprisals, I Perhaps Owe Some
reply to various persons who denounce my reluctance to see Rome bombed. If I thought bombing Rome would carry us any measurable distance towards winning the war I should have......
* * * The Degeneration Of The B.b.c. News Bulletins
is progressive and deplorable. That the news service is being deliberately used by the Ministry of Information for disguised propaganda I hesitate to believe. It would be little......
I Raised A Question Last Week As To The Meaning
of a state- ment in a letter by Neville Chamberlain to his brother Sir Austen: " I have had my time of scorching humiliation," and suggested that it might refer to the late......
A Spectator's Notebook
r HE new and extensive changes in the higher commands in the R.A.F. inevitably raise some questions as to whether things are not• a little too static at the Admiralty. Commander......
The Power Of The Air
N EVER in this war or any other have the potentialities of air-power been more convincingly demonstrated than in a week which has seen the crippling of the Italian fleet at......