24 JANUARY 1941, Page 20

Shorter Notices

MR. CHURCFM I has written a short. foreword for this 194o edition of Pitt's War Speeches. The comparison -between these days and the time when Napoleon's invasion-army waited on the cliffs above Boulogne has been made often—perhaps too often Mr. Churchill points a difference. "In one respect our situation is very different from what it was in Pitt's day. • A Nazi victory would be an immeasurably worse disaster for us and for all mankind than Napoleon's victory could ever have been. As modem France, and not France only, knows, Napoleon could

construct as well as destroy . ."