There Are, Of Course, Pitfalls In This Lecturing Business. A
distingnished authority went down to the provinces to talk to the troops on Russia (not, I think, under A.B.C.A.). He thought a film would enliven things, and ordered one......
Lord Simon, In His Sir John Simon Days, Once Told
the House of Commons that though it might be difficult to define an elephant most people knew one when they saw it. That is broadly true of vulgarity,—a reflection inspired by......
The Criticism In This Column Last Week Of The System
of " recommendation-letters " still employed by a small number of established charities (I see that the Royal Hospital for Incurables has just published the results of it last......
A Rather—or Very—unsatisfactory Situation Has Arisen...
America. For years past many such, in par- ticular men like Sir Frederick Whyte, Sir Norman Angell and Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe, have been doing invaluable service in keeping the......
I Have Been Asked To Discuss Again The Question Of
what the common phrase "first-line air-strength" means. What causes surprise, of course, is that the total of the first-line air-strength of the various Great Powers is so......
A Spectator's
NOTEBOOK IF HAVE been making some enquiries into the working of A.B.C.A. I —the recently-created Army Bureau of Current Affairs—about which, in the first instance, I admit I had......
Mobilising The Nation
r N the careful marshalling of facts which he put before the I House of Commons on Tuesday the Prime Minister passed from the general to the particular—from the blood, tears,......
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