11 OCTOBER 1935, page 6

The Churches And The Nation

T HE Church Congress re-assembled at Bourne- mouth last Tuesday at a moment when the nation might well be asking what lead the Church had to give upon affairs of State deeply......

Anierican Visitors Are Notoriously Quick In Picking Up...

facts about London. " What is the large building opposite " asked a lady from Ohio, visiting e tourist agency in Pall Mall. That, she was informed, , was the Reform Club. " Is......

A Spectator's Notebook

TT is rarely, for obvious reasons, that one can get an .1 informed and candid statement on the situation in Italy from an Italian sufficiently innocuous to the present regime to......

Italy, I See, Is Buying Castor Oil In Considerable Quanti-

ties, but this time it is for the lubrication of aeroplane engines. A few days ago a distinguished British adminis- trator told me of an interview he once had with Signor......

The Choice Of Major Attlee To Succeed . Mr. Lansbury As

leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party till the end of the session is obvious and non-committal. Major Attlee was already deputy-leader, and during the long period of......

Lady Wright, The Wife Of Lord Wright, The New Master

of the Rolls, is a noted horsewoman and Master of the Tidworth Hounds'. They are suggesting in the Temple that hunting men are asking in bewilderment what this new pack, " the......

We Shall, I Suppose, Never Know The Full Facts About

the Daily Mail's ballot on war and sanctions, to which I made some reference last week. On Monday the results were published, with a Singular form of authentication by a......

The Most Conspicuous Feature Of The Diplomatic Side Of The

Italo-Abyssinian dispute is the signal ability and the unfaltering correctness of every public statement made by the Ethiopian Government. Its spokesman . at Geneva, M. 'I'ecle......

I Understand That Mrs. Dugdale's Life Of Her Uncle, Lord

Balfour, is now finished. It is to be published in two volumes of about 250,000 words each. But it will not appear before next spring.......