11 NOVEMBER 1949, page 5

Mr. J. B. Priestley Made A Full-tongued Attack On The

British theatre on Tuesday. Reporting it, The Daily Telegraph, getting off to a good start, began: "Mr. J. B. Priestley, whose play, ' Summer's Day Dream,' came off at the St.......

Professor A. L. Goodhart Is Not Getting As Much Support

as he probably hoped for his suggestion that the very lengthy Long Vaca- tion at British universities should be substantially abbreviated. There is a good deal to be said on......

It Is A Curious Fact That Though The Population Is

duly divided into male and female citizens nothing definite is known of the sex of Parliamentary electors. The reason also is rather curious. Till 1935 electors were......

Professor Eternal's Comments On The Decision Of The...

the British Association that he should no longer be a member of the Council shows how useless it would be to try to bridge the gulf in mental outlook which separates him from......

* * * * I Was Discussing Some Weeks Ago

the possibility of M. Clementis, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, who is now heading the Czech delegation at the United Nations Assembly at Lake Success, deciding not to......

I Gave With All Reserve Last Week Some Statistics Of

the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church in Great Britain. One figure was quoted in a Times article from the Catholic Directory, the other taken from a well - known......

• * * A This Story Is Belated, But It

is true, and it ought to be told. When the King was visiting South Africa he had a long talk with a Basuto Chief. At the end the Chief said: " When a South African comes to talk......

Dr. Albert Peel Was A Considerable Literary Figure In...

circles. Though he was a preacher of marked distinction he will be best remembered for his editorship of the Congregational Quarterly, which he founded in 5922 on retiring from......

A Spectator's Notebook

W HEN the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs was questioned about the document, purporting to be a private memorandum by Mr. Bevin on Anglo- Italian relations, published by the......