The Scale Of Air-warfare Up-to-date, And The...
in the future, will be put in their right propor- tions if it is realised that in all the fighting—North Sea, Heligoland Bight, Western Front—neither side has, in close on five......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE Government has unquestionably done right in decid- ing not to withdraw the British pavilion from the New York Fair, which reopens for its second year towards the end of......
Not Everything We Read In The Papers (so They Will
tell me) is true, so I hope there may still be a denial of the report that Sir Kenneth Clark intends making a propaganda film depicting the " admirably conducted action " in the......
" Like Oliver Cromwell, We Would Prefer Our Portrait To
be painted warts and all." So the Evening Standard leader- writer on Wednesday. Why not? No reason. Every reason why. For the Evening Standard leader-writer is a son of Mr.......
I Find London Members Of Chatham House Increasingly...
the organisation's migration to Oxford, increasingly sceptical of the value of the work it is understood to be doing there, increasingly annoyed at the wholesale transportation......
Robert Smillie—though You Never Heard Him Called Any-...
Bob—was a great figure in the Labour world in his day. That day ended, for practical purposes, ten or a dozen years ago. Smillie sat in the House of Commons as Member for......
Civilians In The War
T HE adjective " total " or " totalitarian " as applied to war has become familiar to everyone, but the task of ascertaining exactly what it implies is a con- tinuous one which......