11 APRIL 1947, page 5

Memories Of Joachim Von Ribbentrop Crop Up It Odd Places.

The last time I saw him was in the dock at Nuremberg. The last time I heard of him was, strangely enough, on Saturday in the peaceful little church of East Wellow in Hampshire,......

Two Letters From Soviet Writers, Coming, Not Indeed,...

swallow dates but just as he does dare, arouse a little interested curiosity. One, a long one, was in Monday's Times. It was signed A. Sudachkov and was dated from Moscow. The......

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So far as scoring debating-points goes, the Government's reversal on the conscription-period is a gift for the Opposition ; but there was a certain astuteness in making the......

A Spectator 's Notebook

A GREAT many things might be said about.Henry Ford. A great many things have been said. One (which no doubt has been said somewhere, though 1 have not seen it) is that his......

This, Which I Find Disquieting Enough, Is From An Englishman

now in Greece: "Greece is beginning to get all the aspects of a second Spain. Strong and well-organised bands of Communists roam the country, and we are not strong enough to......

Party And State

p OLITICAL rumours have strange origins, but most of them are the result of representing as likely to happen something which by the nature of things might quite possibly happen.......

I Have Before Me A Number Of Selected Words And

phrases offered for my execration. About one or two of them—" face up to," "check up on," "directive," I am bound to give intellectual assent to the demand for condemnation,......

A Paper-bound Book Called Now's The Day—a Challenge To The

Church of Scotland opens with a rather arresting statement. "Three forces," says the author (the Rev. D. Allan Easton, Minister of the Old Kirk of Edinburgh), "are struggling......