7 APRIL 1939, page 6

The Enterprise Of The National Defence Public Interest...

arranging a national defence display in Hyde Park on Saturday was well rewarded, in that the public flocked in thousands to see and hear,—and deserved to be. It might perhaps......

Incidentally A Gift For Overhearing Considerably Enlarged...

the properties of the barrage balloons. They keep up, according to one young gentleman in the crowd, because they are filled with petrol. (Each balloon actually, I believe,......

A Spectator's Notebook

I AM not surprised that The Times figured so largely in the foreign affairs debate in the House of Commons on Monday. No single factor contributed so much to the disasters of......

Recruits, I Read, Are Flocking To The Colours. In Fact

the flocking season has begun. This is how one of them flocked, thirty-six hours after the announcement about doub- ling the Territorials was made. Having a free afternoon (X.......

The Embargo Imposed By The Government On Payment By The

banks of Czech holdings in London was a sound and necessary move, but it seems to have had the effect of reducing a number of perfectly well-to-do Czech residents in this......

Lord Stanhope's Statement On Tuesday Night, Reported In...

on Wednesday, that it had just been necessary to give orders to the Fleet to man its anti-aircraft guns should perhaps be read in the light of information which reached me from......

The Lords And Road-safety

T HE coincidence of the Easter holiday with the opening of a new quarter, and the consequent restoration to the roads of cars that have been laid up for reasons of economy......