10 SEPTEMBER 1948, page 4

Signs Of The Spread Of Culture Are Always Exhilarating, And

in view of the admitted inadequacy of our existing universities it is highly encouraging to learn of the continued manifestations of activity by a propitious partnership between......

Production And Prices

I N face of the spectacle presented by the attitude of organised Labour in France, the attitude of organised Labour in this country, as revealed at the Trades Union Congress at......

I Do Not Often Differ From My Independent Friend W.

J. Brown, but I cannot feel that his attack on the Foreign Secretary in his last Evening Standard article was well-conceived. What are the charges against Mr. Bevin? First that......

The B.b.c. May Seem To Live In The Public Eye,

but a glance at its annual report (that for 1947-8 is just issued) reveals an astonish- ing amount of little-known activity. When the Far Eastern service alone broadcasts......

I See That When Sir Stafford Cripps Addressed The Prisoners

in Pentonville he was well questioned by his audience after his address. So—si parva licet componere magnis—was I when I was once at Pentonville on a like errand. What is more,......

It Is A Curious Thing That Though The Belief Is

steadily growing that the Conservatives will win the next General Election they have still to score a gain at a single by-election. Nor have they any immediate prospect of that.......

A Spectator 's Notebook

W HAT needs—and deserves—to be said of Dr. Benes has, I know, been said elsewhere in this issue. Here I can only pay the briefest personal tribute. I had known Benes for not far......

The First Lord Esher, Who Knew More About The Commonwealth,

and talked more sense, than most men, wrote once: " In this next ten years the Empire will have to federate or dissolve." That was in 19r0 ; the ten years expired in 192o. The......