11 JUNE 1948, page 5

The Thames No Doubt In Some Of Its Reaches Can

disseminate odours which are not precisely those of Araby, and samples of its waters taken at Godstow and at Greenwich might on analysis show some difference. But the historic......

And What Of Mr. Dalton's Functions ? That Is Easier

to ask than to answer, and Mr. Morrison declined (quite legitimately) to answer it on Tuesday. Something to do with the Foreign Office was sug- gested ; but that is not so.......

Mr. Harold Laski Is Credited—or Perhaps Discredited--with...

New York Post that "the British Government has done more damage to the honour and prestige of Britain in the past week than our enemies have been able to inflict on us since the......

The Proposal To Revise Bank Holidays Is Interesting. It Is

seventy- seven years since Lord Avebury, then Sir John Lubbock, M.P., achieved immortality (which he might, no doubt, have gained on other counts) by inventing the August Bank......

Government And Peers

T HIS week's debate in the House of Lords on the Bill to amend the Parliament Act has been for the most part profoundly depressing. Behind the immediate proposal—to reduce by......

A Spectator's Notebook I Suppose The Tragedy Of Benes Is In

a sense no greater than 1 the numberless personal tragedies for which Communism in Europe is daily responsible. But this, of course, is much more than a personal tragedy ; it is......

Will (now Lord) Henderson, The Elder Of The Late Arthur

Hender- son's two sons, who becomes a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, has so far been less in the public eye than his younger brother Arthur. While......