3 NOVEMBER 1939, page 6

So Lord Nuffield Is To Lend His Invaluable Organising...

to the Air Ministry—the dust of whose doors he shook off after an unfortunate encounter with Lord Swinton, then Minister for Air, three years ago. Sir Kingsley Wood is to be......

Private Motor-cars Appear To Be Losing Some Of The Absurd

and meaningless priority labels which they were so freely flaunting. But the plague of initials grows more acute. The correspondent of The Times who has drawn attention to......

The Frequency With Which The German Wireless Is...

moves by British Government de- partments to secret destinations, by no means always inaccurately, is rather disturbing. No doubt someone is looking into it. * * * *......

Plausible Mendicant: "as A Result Of The War I Am

re- duced to selling lavender." But where is your lavender? " " As a result of the war I am unable to get any." JANtis.......

We Shall, I Am Afraid, Have Many Fewer American Visitors

among us in the corning months than usual, for citizens of the United States are finding it extremely difficult to get permits to visit a belligerent country. Even the wives of......

Since A Very Pertinent Passage In A Recent Speech By

Sir Arthur Salter in the House of Commons went totally un- reported in the daily Press I will reproduce it here. Sir Arthur recalled the names of the men responsible at the most......

One Of The Minor Mysteries Of The War Is The

German submarine discovered derelict on the Goodwin Sands last week with sixty dead inside her. How did she get there? How did the men die? The Admiralty no doubt has its......

A Spectator's Notebook

" In the early stages of the war Germany loudly proclaimed that she was winning. As the progress of events belied such words, she changed her theme. The Allies could not win,......

A Reversion To Barbarism

T HE first instinct of the average civilised human being on reading the records of barbaric cruelty practised in German concentration camps is to dismiss them as incredible. But......