10 OCTOBER 1941, page 4

Having No Space To Open A "quotations Wanted" Bureau Here,

I can undertake to seek relief for no one's perplexities but my own. My own, at the moment, are not grave, but— Lord Reith, speaking the other day of pioneers who begin by being......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HOSE critics of the Government who urge that all available ships ought to be used to convey munitions to Russia rather than extra sugar and butter to Britain, evince a......

The Merits Of The Oxford Group Movement And The Merits

of the recent agitation about the appeal for the exemption of eleven Group lay-evangelists from military service are two quite different things. It is difficult to think that......

Janu S.

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Some Statistician, Perhaps Professor Bowley In His Spare...

do worse than compute the number of man- hours lost to productive work through public luncheons in London at this time of the year. Take one which I attended— it is almost......

At Any Rate, Let Food-and-talk Be As At The British

Survey luncheon on Wednesday of this week. The chairman, Mr. G M. Young, contented himself with proposing the King, two out of the three speakers, Mr. Brendan Bracken and the......

Field-marshal Lord Ironside, Who Is Not Always Entirely...

his public utterances (his satisfaction that we had middle-aged generals while Germany had only young ones will be recalled), made a surprising statement on Saturday. We had......

The Post-war League

HE fact that the anntial conference of the International Labour Organisation is to be held this month, and held New York, with a British Government Delegation headed by the......