Lice Are Interesting, If Not Particularly Engaging,...
it is not surprising that Mr. Ernest Brown and Mr. erw ald Ramsbotham should be concentrating some attention them. The result is a joint circular on what is impressively 'axed "......
Turning Out Old Junk A Day Or Two Ago, I
came on the admir- able booklet, authorised by the French War Office, describing, and demonstrating the impregnability of, the Maginot Line. It was published in December, 1939,......
My Note Of Last Week About Generals Brooke, Dill And
Pile brings the reminder that " these officers are in the aggregate at least 1331 per cent. Irish." I cannot guarantee the fraction, but the figure is substantially accurate,......
-a Spectator's Notebook
HERE is less unsettlement at the Ministry of Aircraft Pro- duction than there was. Air-Marshal Sir John Salmond s gone. Sir Charles Bruce-Gardner has gone. The Society of ritish......
An Interesting Echo. In The Spectator Of Just Five Years
ago there was an article by Major Lawrence Athill on " How Civilisation Came to Harrar," in which the writer described that Abyssinian town as he had known it years before. His......
Eire Has Given Abundant Signs Of The Seriousness, Not To
say timorousness, with which she preserves her neutrality. The latest evidence is that Sir Robert Vansittart's Black Record, of which nearly 300,000 copies have been sold in......
Mr. Duff Cooper's Statement That He Was Considering An Rease
in the number of Governors of the B.B.C. is welcome. he reduction from seven members to two, of whom one ppears to predominate considerably3 meant changing the litical......
Women In ,war
THERE has been no little stir among younger women in all parts of the country since they were compelled to realise that at last their turn has come—that they must line up beside......
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