2 JANUARY 1942, page 4

An Interesting Verdict Has Just Been Passed By Occupied...

on Marshal Petain. At the instigation of the Minister of the Interior at Vichy every commune was invited to purchase for the very modest figure of 25o francs a portrait of the......

The Present Serious Lack Of Leadership In Cultural...

this country is plainly revealed by the attitude of the B.B.C. to music. When war broke out defeatism was rampant at Broad- casting House. The B.B.C. cut down all its more......

Fritz Thyssen's Book, I Paid Hitler, Contains Some...

matter. The steel king was, of course, among Hitler's largest financial supporters in the early days of the Nazi move- ment, but he had to fly from Germany a year or two ago,......

A Spectator 's Notebook

W HETHER the Prime Minister has ever made better speeches than those he has just delivered at Washington and Ottawa is matter for argument. Certainly, with the possible......

Mr. Quo Tai-chi Left Many Friends In London When He

quitted Portland Place to become Foreign Minister of China, and they feel disappointment as well as perplexity at his displacement, after eight months of office, in favour of......

The Year That Went Wrong

" The year 1941 will bring us the greatest victory of our Germany."—Adolf Hitler, Dec. 31st, 194o. " We in Germany await the New Year with proud confidence in the greatest......

The Crucial Year

T HE note for 1942 has been set by Mr. Churchill. In the tight particuiariy of his talks in Washington he has visuaiised clearly the future of the war. " Provided," he told the......