30 OCTOBER 1942, page 14

Dog-licences

SIR,—People, pigs and poultry are all rationed, cows are eating straw and horses are not to eat oats, even the cat's saucer is threatened. But dogs, lucky dogs, have slipped......

The Behaviour Test

Sta,—The Russians "are fighting," says Mr. Philip Jordan, "for a system which does not put men on the dole, but guarantees them security from want so long as they behave......

Improving London

Sra,—One deduction from Dr. Huxley's criticism of the Bressey-Lutyens proposals would seem to be the advisability of inviting American co- operation as was done on the last......

Country Life

THE value of the wood that lies rotting in woods and fields has at last been realised by authority. Its virtue has perhaps been even exaggerated. Small groups of soldiers, many......

Politics And Schools

Sta,—I am perfectly ready to agree with Mr. Peter Wiener that my Outline of Political Geography contains what all those who differ from its conclusions or its point of view......

Law And Force

Sut,—Mr. Harold Nicolson's remarks on the relations of law and force are timely and valuable. But do they go far enough? I believe that a fundamental confusion of thought here......

Sir,—mr. Wiener's Article Is Very Disquieting, Especially...

what he and Professor Brogan say about the contribution of the schoolmasters to the fall of France. I will take one point only. He says that a text- book used in "a great many......