A Spectator's Notebook
T HE National Book Association (President: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley) was founded in 1937 to give its mem- bers important new books that have a sound, moderate and......
The Reminder By The Board Of Education That School...
is as much required of refugee children as of any others is no doubt right and timely, but it is obvious that children of ten or twelve speaking no English can get singularly......
I Am Glad To See Mr. Duff Cooper, Who Was
once in the Foreign Office himself, writing (in the Evening Standard) on the shortcomings of British diplomacy. It is a delicate subject, for it is impossible to write......
The Fact That That Sinister Body The Gestapo—the Ger- Man
Secret Police—should be active in this country is distinctly unpleasant, but since its emissaries are, in all the cases I have heard of, doing nothing illegal, our own......
I See That An Alderman Of Nottingham Has Declined An
invitation to a luncheon given by the Lord Mayor on the ground that he understood no wine was ' to be served. This is an admirable precedent. I am all in favour of guests being......
Strindberg's " Miss Julie " Is Described As The "
meat - dish " in the triple bill that opened at the Westminster Theatre On Monday, the " cocktail " being a valueless trifle by Schnitzler, and the savoury Barrie's " The Will,"......
The Authentic Gospel " The Impulse To Self-preservation...
peoples gives them the noblest justification for fighting with every conceivable weapon. Only recognition of this principle has produced such outstanding historical examples of......
The Call To Self-defence
N his foreword to the National Service handbook, Sir John Anderson has emphasised that the Government's call to the nation " is to peace and not to war." The same emphasis......
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