10 MARCH 1939, page 6

The New Master Of Christ's Seems To Have Absconded To

America on the very day of his election—not solely, I imagine, to avoid the embarrassment of congratulations. Canon Raven might have had an academic or an ecclesiasti- cal......

"we Shall Soon Lose A Celebrated Building," Quoted...

the head of his poem on the Paris Morgue. Well, we have just lost one, it seems, in Vienna. Not so very celebrated, perhaps; only the British Legation in the Metter- nichgasse......

Clifford Allen's Death Leaves A Strange Blank In Public...

because he held a strange, almost a unique, position in the political field. Since the War his health, already precarious, having further deteriorated af the result of his three......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE House of Commons, I regret to say, dislikes the Press. The question put on Monday by Mr. Morris, instigating the Prime Minister to "consider introducing legislation to......

Here, For What It Is Worth, Is A Sentence From

a conver- sation with a well-informed, representative and non-political German—not an émigré. "Suppose," I asked him, "Mussolini levelled demands against France unsuccessfully,......

The Shame Of Unemployment

T HE fall in the February unemployment figures has, in many quarters, been greeted with signs of pro- found relief ; The Times, for instance, says that the fall has removed" the......

"new Pope Elected.

Harlequin 1, Tough Guy 2, Steel Blade 3." Evening Standard, March 2nd. Those don't seem quite the names I saw in other papers, but perhaps they are pseudonyms, though on that......