7 JULY 1939, page 10

I Am A Very Infrequent Listener To The B.b.c. News,

but such criticism as I have seen of their supposedly alarmist tendencies has always appeared to emanate from the same people who are regularly taken aback by each European......

Colonel Peake, Otherwise Peake Pasha, Has Retired To...

thirty years of magnificent public service. In 1922 he raised the Arab Legion, which he has commanded ever since. In 1923 he became Director of Public Security in Transjordan,......

At Oxford Station On Saturday Morning At Least A Hundred

passengers got off the train. They surged along the platform towards a huge notice " Way Out," to find a locked gate. They surged back to a point many yards away, where a single......

The National Service Rally In Hyde Park Is Represented In

the German Press as an act of aggression, occurring in an interval between paroxysms of abject panic. Whichever it was, aggression or panic, the participants would have been......

" Unlike Most Pretty Girls," Writes Mr. Godfrey Winn, "

I never caught her once during the whole week-end looking at herself in a mirror. Does that strike a bell in your mind?" Not immediately, I must admit, having never been a......

A Spectator's Notebook

O NE hesitates to disagree with Mr. Harold Nicolson on any aspect of foreign affairs ; but it is really very hard to understand his comparison of Nazism to " a hoop which......

Employment And Arms

T HE latest unemployment returns show with the greatest clarity the effects of the Government's rearmament programme. In the current year over £600,000,000 is to be spent on......