My Scepticism About The Explanation Officially Given Me...
name E-boats was well founded. A number of correspon - dents, to all of whom I am indebted, write to say the E stands for Ell—speed. Eil-boote are therefore speed-boats. That......
I Feel, Needless To Say, The Warmest Sympathy With Mr.
Stanley Unwin's plea for more paper for books, the more so since every argument he puts forward in his.letter to The Times applies with equal force to the case of the weekly......
As A Person With A Prejudice For News Without Propaganda
I am rather concerned to know in what capacity Gaumont-British News is setting up a propagandist business. News at the ordinary cinema is always a popular feature, and it is a......
Sir Walter Monckton's Visit To Moscow To Co-ordinate...
if that is the proper phrase, is very timely. There is no question that the Russians have much to teach us in this field, though we are learning a good deal of it already. But......
A Spectator's Notebook
T AM very glad to see the appeal of the retiring Vice- .1 Chancellor of Cambridge for the establishment of a Chair of American History at Cambridge. A historian himself, Mr.......
So Officers Of The Royal Air Force Must Not Smoke
pipes in public—and public, within the meaning of the regulation, includes railway-carriages and cinemas. Lord Baldwin, as Prime Minister, could smoke a pipe wherever he liked,......
There Are Optimists Who Always Expect To Get Everyone On
the telephone, and pessimists who never expect to get anyone. Among the former, I judge, are Messrs. A. and C. Black, the publishers of the latest issue of Who Was Who, that......
Science In War And Peace Hough No Ordinary Meeting Of
the British Associa- tion could be held this year, or perhaps in any year B ing a world-war, the conference which was held last r iday, Saturday and Sunday had a unique......
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