11 JANUARY 1952, page 4

A Spectator's Notebook

N OTHING could be more perverse than for persons, of whom there are many (myself included) who dissent strongly from South Africa's native policy to protest against the King's......

■ * An Unobtrusive Paragraph Appeared In One Or Two

papers a few days ago reporting that the house of Ul'stein was to have all the property confiscated by the Nazis restored to it. What that means remains to be discovered. On......

Rarely Can A Book Have Had A More Impressive Send-off

than was accorded on Tuesday to Mr. Chester Wilmot's The Struggle for Europe, which is to be published later this month. The gathering of between five and six hundred which......

The Climax Of The Drama Of The 'flying Enterprise' Almost

justifies retroactively the inordinate amount of space most of the daily papers have been giving to photographs and descriptions, at no one knows what sacrifice of other news.......

I Am Delighted To Learn That The Hat With Which

Mr. Churchill has been astonishing and mystifying the United States is known technically as a "Cambridge." This seems to. hold out some solid prospect (as Mr. Churchill would......

Time To Act

T HE existence of the worst sterling crisis in Britain's crisis-ridden post-war career is established for all who have the ability and the will to read the figures published on......

Car-owners Like Myself, Who Are Accustomed To Buy Petrol And

oil and other oddments when we have to and try not to calculate, what it is all costing, learn with something of a shock that according to the A.A. "it. costs 7.04 pence a mile......