22 SEPTEMBER 1944, page 9

The Death Of Words

By C. S. LEWIS I THINK it was Miss Macaulay who complained in one of her delightful articles (strong and light as steel wire) that the dic- tionaries are always telling us of......

Telling The Middle East

By A. C. PRIESTLEY EW Englishmen like the word " propaganda." It has a sug- r gestion of showing-off, of self-adulation, that is very distasteful to the English mind. We like......

Official Sepulture

LEAVE them in peace beneath the staring sky. At head the rough wood cross, at foot the steel Of battered helmet. They will not feel, Beneath the shallow shifting sand the cold......