3 APRIL 1942, page 4

The Announcement That Mr. Frank Owen, Editor Of The Evening

Standard, was to preside at last Sunday's Trafalgar Square meeting called to demand a diversionary offensive in the interests of Russia interested me considerably, for some ten......

Sir Stafford Cripps' Press Conferences In New Delhi Have, By

all accounts, been an outstanding success. A verbatim transcript of his exchanges with British, Indian, American and other jour- nalists would be singularly entertaining. One......

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I have had a very interesting comment on the St. Nazaire raid from M. Mendes-France, Under-Secretary for Finance in M. Blum's Government, and the latest Frenchman of importance......

A Spectator's Notebook

I HOPE the Government Departments concerned, primarily 1 . the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Information, will give urgent attention to the message in Saturday's Times from......

In View Of My Reference Last Week To The Offer

of the Paper Control of an extra ration for the publication of books of special public importance, and to the surprising opposition of one or two leading publishers to......

Dr. Cosmo Lang—i Am Not Sure Whether He Is Technically

Lord Lang at this momenror not—enters this week on his well' deserved retirement. He might think of employing it on another novel. His youthful production, The Young Glenroy,......

India's Opportunity

q't HE task of the British Government in the matter of an J. Indian settlement has been to discover not the solution that would be the best and the most practical in its own......