A Spectator's Notebook
H AVING read the Blue Book containing the diplomatic documents on the negotiations preceding the war, I am a little inclined to question its title to be a best-seller. It has......
It Is Very Difficult To Measure The Possibilities Of Serious
dissensions in Germany, and the temptation to exaggerate scattered rumours may easily inspire false hopes. The state of the country cannot be good, but there is no justification......
* * * * I Am Quite Sure That Lord
Camrose's Daily Telegraph would never let its attitude be affected, or its freedom of criticism restricted, by Lord Camrose's appointment to the Ministry of Information. But the......
It Is Curious, And From Many Points Of View Unfortunate,
that not a single public speech should have been delivered by the Prime Minister, or any of his principal colleagues, since the war began. Perhaps they are just impending. In......
* * * * The Sovietisation Of More Than Half
of Poland will mean, among many other changes, the end of the old feudal relation- ship which has lasted on there when it has disappeared from nearly all the rest of Europe. A......
* * * * On Sunday The Germans Poured On
Warsaw what the next day's papers described as " a rain of death." In the evening the English broadcast from the German station at Zeesen closed with the hymn " The day Thou......
Impossible As It Is To Achieve The Ideal Of Equality
of sacrifice in war-time, every attempt must be made to avoid avoidable injustices. One of these affects officers under- going special courses. I use the plural because, though......
Evacuation Errors
I T is a fortunate fact that the first effect of the war to be acutely felt by the mass of the people is not that arising from enemy attack, but from the dislocation of ordinary......
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