"the Theory He Had Always Put Forward, And On A
very sound basis, was that the German Empire is a fraud and a bluff."—Lord Londonderry, April 23rd, 1940. "In an incredibly short space of time Herr Hitler restored the sense of......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE statement a few days ago by M. Pierlot, the Prime Minister of Belgium, that Belgium's defensive preparations are costing her £70,000,000 a year, and that the total of her......
I Have Just Turned, For Some Information On Norway, To
an admirable little book on the Scandinavian countries pub- lished last year. "Norway," I read, "is geographically even further removed than Sweden from the turmoil of European......
Mr. G. N. Barnes Was One Of The Best Examples—and
one of the last—of the old type of Labour leader, prudent, con- ciliatory, but quite ready when necessary to show courage :n a fight for his union or his cause. He came to the......
The Fog Of War Has Got As Near To Whitehall
as Orpington. It was announced on Monday that a hospital-train had arrived at that Kentish township with zoo British wounded, presumably from Norway. An hour later a correction......
I Learn From A Letter From Iceland That The Proposal
that the island should seek to become part of the British Empire has actually been made in the Althing—the Iceland Parlia- ment, which claims to be the oldest body of its kind......
* * * Another Example Of The Goebbels Half-truth Method
as applied to an article in The Spectator has just reached me. In a leading article in this journal on April nth it was remarked that the German attack on Norway could have had......
Hitler's Dilemma
A s its eighth month approaches completion the war has woken up. It is being fought today in Norway in three elements. In one of them the Allies' superiority is incontestable ;......
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