27 OCTOBER 1939, page 19

Stalin's Free Hand

SIR, —In the light of past and present events in Russian politics, it appears highly astonishing to a student of history (aged 18) to hear from the pen of Mr. J. Werner Cohen......

Council Of Action And War Aims

Sta,—Your apparently studied and somewhat contemptuous dismissal of the constructive proposals of the Council of Action is not worthy of The Spectator. Viscount Cecil, in the......

Letters To The Editor

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a pseudonym, and the latter must......