... By Foresight Pacific News THERE'S a Dunkirk determination about the reactions of people in all places to the daily repetition of bad news from the Pacific. Events there grow so grave that even the ready recriminations of politicians have died away for the time. The siege of Singapore is watched with a calm which shields but does not deny deep anxiety. As in the case of Hong Kong, water ...

... rr,cS By James Agate Technicolor Tease A LYRICAL caption describing an isolated island in the Bahamas, at the beginning of Bahama Passage, at the Plaza, rather flabbergastingly concludes with the sentence: What happens when into this loneliness and repression swaggers a girl who has been around? The answer is, of course, nothing whatever, until exactly an hour and a half after the question ...

... Diplomacy at Work The Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan, G.C.M.G., C.B., at the Foreign Office As Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ince 1938, Sir Alexander Cadogan has played an important part in all decisions affecting British foreign policy in recent ears. In 1933 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Sinister Plenipotentiary, and later Ambassador, at Pekin, nd succeeded ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Slack Book I HAVE to hand, this week, one of the most massive, impassive and detailed indict ments of Nazi Germany that have so far appeared. The German New Order in Poland (published for the Polish Ministry of In formation by Hutchinson; IOS. 6d.) has been compiled from carefully sifted evi dence; if anything, it is an understatement, for it confines itself to facts that ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements Boddam-Whetham Lane Captain John Hayes Boddam-Whetham Queen's Westminsters, K.R.R.C. only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Boddam-Whetham, of 37, Crompton Court, S.H'., and Joan Margaret Lane, younger daughter of Major- General and Mrs. C. R. C. Lane, of Poona, Itidia, were married at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton Felicity Par doe Felicity ...

... ^4 By Sabretache iVoI Me, Sir! EVEN the most unobservant of us must have noticed that the man who is himself in an advanced stage of alcoholic poisoning always asserts that it is everyone else around and about him who is suffering from staggering inebriety. Von Hitler has assured the world that he never touches anything, and that, furthermore, he never gabbles, never steals, never lies, and ...

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... The Hon. Eric and the Hon. Mrs. Butler-Henderson Entertain Their Children and Grandchildren The Hon. Eric Butler-Henderson and the Hon. Mrs. Butler- Henderson had a large family gathering at their Hampshire home, Faccombe Manor, when the Army leave of two of their sons and of both their sons-in-law coincided. The Hon. Eric Brand Henderson, the younger son of the late Lord Faringdon, married ...

... By Foresight Salted Traditions WE are a sea-minded nation. The intrepid gallantry of our Air Force, the grim enduring qualities of our Army are nothing compared to the traditional belief in the unstained glory of the Royal Navy. Here we have the reason for what may seem to be the unreasoning reactions of the public towards the affair of the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau. Divorced from all ...

... By James Agate A Good Resolution I SHALL begin this week with a personal experience that happened to me just before the war. I had gone to spend the week-end at that seaside resort which the doctor said was the best cure for overwork. I determined to go not as a dramatic critic, but in the way that the privileged many who are not dramatic critics go to the theatre. You must know that it ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Hawk's-eye View MR. JOHN GUNTHER-- of Inside Europe and Inside Asia-- has now given us Inside Latin America (Hamish Hamil ton; 12s. 6d.). The flair that gets Mr. Gunther to the right places at the right moments makes him deliver books at the right time. With every month of the war, the Republics that make up Central and South America come further into the news. About these ...