10 JUNE 1938, page 6

Ignorance Of The Law Is No Defence To A Charge

of breach of the law. Everyone is supposed to know the law. But what happens when no one knows it ? That appears to be the position now in regard to the far from unimportant......

Not Many People, I Imagine (and Hope), Will Question The

wisdom of Sir Samuel Hoare's refusal to prohibit the holding in this country of a rather portentously named International Congress of the World Union of Freethinkers ; the sur-......

A Spectator's Notebook

S OME notes I have just received from a well-qualified English observer in Italy confirm rather strikingly reports from other sources. In spite of the Rome-Berlin Axis,......

The Appointment Of So Prominent An American As Mr. J.

G. Winant to be Director of the International Labour Office, and the fact that Mr. Winant's candidature received not merely President Roosevelt's assent but his warm approval,......

The Lesson Of West Derby Reinforces Rather Remarkably The...

of Mid-Bucks. In the latter division the Con- servative candidate won so easily that his figures are imma- terial ; the Liberal and Labour candidates combined polled almost......

Doctrine And The Common Man

B OTH Houses of Convocation in both Provinces expressed themselves last week on the subject of the recent report on Doctrine in the Church of England ; and it is doing no......