5 MAY 1939, page 6

No Tears Need Be Shed, Except In So Far As

the growing dis- regard of international obligations is to be depored, over the abrogation of the Anglo-German Naval Treaty by Herr Hitler. No new building programme on which......

One Phrase In Herr Hitler's Reichstag Speech Seems A Little

odd. Germany, he said, was prepared to conclude a twenty- five-year non-aggression pact with Poland—" a treaty, there- fore, which would extend far beyond the duration of my own......

The B.b.c., Which By Its Charter Is Under Obligation To

issue Government statements when called on so to do, is on occasion recusant. Not long ago it was rung up in the middle of the evening by a certain Government Depart- ment and......

The Lyric Effluences Of Publishers Regarding Their Forth-...

are a thing apart, and I should never think of applying to them ordinary standards of interpretation. But there must after all be some standards of interpretation, or some......

That Remarkable Weekly Journal, The Saturday Evening...

with its circulation of, I think, three millions, is publishing a curious series of articles by General Krivitsky, who was chief of the Soviet Military Intelligence in Western......

King George Sets Sail

T WENTY-SIX years ago Prince Albert, King George the Fifth's second son, serving as cadet on H.M.S. Cumberland,' landed for the first time on the shores of Canada. This week, as......

A Spectator's Notebook

IF I said—as I do say—that a man had died in the past week but for whom the Allies might have lost the Great War, many readers, I fancy, would be hard put to it to decide whom I......