More than 200 refugee children from Germany who are due to arrive at Dovercourt Bay Holiday Camp, near Harwich, to-day will sleep in little chalets with electric light, carpeted floors, and cozy beds. Some of the chalets will be converted into classrooms, where a staff of German teachers will continue their education. A number of volunteers have arrived and stocks of clothing are being graded. A full medical examination will be carried out on disembarkation at Harwich.
The government has rejected the idea of a compulsory national register and compulsory service in peace time. In this it is indisputably wise. Any attempt to apply compulsion before we are in war or under its direct menace would set up enormous social friction. It would also consort oddly with Mr Chamberlain’s optimism about the friendly intentions of the dictators and of his ‘go-getting for peace.’
D.H. Lawrence by Hugh Kingsmill
Mr Hugh Kingsmill’s life of D.H. Lawrence has at least two negative virtues: it is not written by a woman, and it is not written by a devotee. He has given the fullest account of Lawrence’s life that has yet appeared, with a number of details I have not seen in print before, but refuses to be tempted into criticism. Yet Lawrence was an artist and unless one comes to terms with him there is much to be missed.