24 NOVEMBER 1939, page 6

The War, Which Has Been Responsible For The Death Of

many journals, is to see the birth of one to which I look forward with rather lively interest. It is a village product, its title The Abinger Chronicle, and the contributors to......

Even Though It Is Denied By Dr. Goebbels, The Statement

that Field-Marshal Goering's Swedish wife has just borne him a second child at Lausanne recalls the fact that Field- Marshal Goering's Swedish brother-in-law is well known as an......

There Is Something Cynically Attractive About The Story,...

The Times correspondent at Belgrade, of the Czecho-Slovak margarine factories which are compelled to pack their produce in paper sent from Russia and marked U.S.S.R., the idea......

We Have Been All Too Well Familiarised With The Name

Simon Bolivar in the last few days. The great liberator's surname is invariably pronounced by the B.B.C. announcers with the accent on the first syllable. I had always thought......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HERE are few things more difficult today than to reach .1 any assured conclusion about the state of Germany. What appear to be best authorities, whether Germans outside......

The Verdict Given In The Court Of Appeal On Monday

in the libel action Newstead v. The Daily Express well illus- trates (failing a reversal of the judgement by the House of Lords) the pitfalls which the law of libel prepares for......

Social Reform In War-time

T HE reasons which Sir John Simon gave for dropping the Criminal Justice Bill were such that he could scarcely be pressed to alter the decision. Yet his sug- gestion that the......

" Finnish Military Chiefs Provoking War."

" Troops Moved Up to Frontier: All Calm on Soviet Side." —The Daily Worker. jAN1JS.......