... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IN the long run, your verdict on MISSION TO MOSCOW (Warners and Regal) will almost certainly be decided by your political views or the extent of your in formation regarding pre-war European affairs, neither of which is the province of these notes. The controversy surrounding the piece as propaganda is not my affair either, and 1 leave others to decide wnetner tne mm is, ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. RIDE ON, STRANGER is a novel about urban life in Aus tralia in the years just before the war. Shannon Hicks was her parents' fourth daughter; she was born on Monday, a washing-day, and the news of her birth gave her father an attack of indigestion. Any child was bad enough, but a boy would have been prefer able, so rather wistfully they gave her a name that would have ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. SOMETHING a little different from the usual war-film has turned up in FLEMISH FARM (Leicester Square). It belongs to the semi-docu mentary school; that is to say, it tells a fictitious story. based on a real-life episode. The film begins in the summer of 1940, just before the Belgian capitulation. The last remnants of the last squadron of the Belgian Air Force are ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. IT is pleasant to find in a modern novel emotions of what might be called the middle register, emotions unconnected with the main tenance of a stiff upper lip. In novels specifically about the war one hardly looks for them, and, indeed, they might be thought to be out of place. But even before the war they were rather rare in ordinary fiction. Of love we hear plenty but it ...