12 JANUARY 1951, page 4

Progress Is Always To Be Applauded, And We Seem To

have made considerable advances in the matter of losing things. An old Punch picture showed a slightly exhilarated bandsman on a Scottish station platform searching feverishly......

So The Ashes Stay Where They Are—where They Have Been,

it is melancholy to recall, since Jardine's eleven in 1932-3 installed them for a brief period at Lord's (if that Is where they are deposited when here). But even the most......

"the Minister Appealed For Fuel Economy Both In The Home

and in the workshop. He said the Prime Minister had been dropped." --Sunday Times. Firm action at last—and quite time too. JANus.......

Christians, Said Canon L. J. Collins In St. Paul's On

Sunday, ought to meddle in politics. That depends. I have just been reading a pamphlet by Canon Collins and Mr. Victor Gollancz called Christianity and the War Crisis (Gollancz,......

Sinclair Lewis Interpreted, Or At Any Rate Pictured, The...

West as no other modern novelist has done. His Main Street, appearing in 1920 just after a war in which American participation had aroused a new interest here in the United......

Away Of Life

W HAT is it that binds the members of the British Commonwealth together and justifies the common application of some such term as family conclave to a conference like that now......

"it Will Show Soviet Russia That We Do Not Intend

to3 be brow- beaten by their underhand methods." Air-Commodore Harvey, M.P., in The Tunes. Underhand ? Or uppercut ? Anyhow, I should like to see it .illustrated.......

A Spectator's Notebook C Aptain Peter Thorneycroft's...

of a Coalition Government is interesting by reason of the position Captain Thorneycroft occupies. A former junior Minister who sits by preference on a back bench, he stands well......

I Learn From A Keswick Paper That Mr. A. Colin

Corah of that town has had conferred on him the Degree Ph.D. (Hons.) by the Acadimie Internationale, "affiliated with universities and Learned Institutions throughout the......