10 NOVEMBER 1950, page 5

The Liberal Party Of Nine Members In The House Of

Commons has been divided six to three in two critical debates in the House of Commons this week. In one case the three voted against the six, in the other the three abstained on......

Mr. Fred Hoyle's Series Of Broadcasts On The Universe We

live in attracted considerable attention, and in their printed form, ,The Nature of the Universe (Blackwell, 5s.) they are likely to attract more. I did not hear the broadcasts,......

Incidentally, The Newspapers Which Saw Fit To Publish...

Mr. Shaw lying dead set a precedent which I earnestly hope is not going to become a practice. There may surely be an escape from the Press photographer in the beyond. . . * * *......

Communist Enigma

I F it were possible to know what Russia's intentions really are, and what the new China's intentions really are, and how close' the association between Peking and Moscow really......

The Decision Of Pandit Nehru Not To Accept Nomination For

the Chancellorship of Cambridge comes as a great relief to me per- sonally, for in a momentary blackout I asserted last week that B.A.s had votes in this contest, as they did in......

Technical Difficulties Connected With The Printers'...

an end) prevented me from dealing last week with the word "propaganda," and replying to the various correspondents who have courteously pointed out that the origin of the word......

Editors' Tenure Is A Vexed And Perennial Question, But Every

now and then a particular incident, like the removal of Tom Hopkinson from the editorial chair of Picture Post, gives it immediacy. The facts here are clear. A staff......

The Dinner To Lord Samuel Last Monday, His Eightieth...

was an abundantly merited tribute to a great man. His competence in different fields—politics, philosophy, rrietaphysics, administration —is so unobtrusive that his brilliance......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HAT Bernard Shaw has left a great deal of money may be taken for granted. He must have made a vast amount, and there is no reason to think he spent lavishly—quite the con-......