12 MAY 1939, page 6

The Future Of Cities

T HIS week London has the honour of entertaining a visitor who is not only America's greatest architect but one of the representative men of his time. Yet his name will be......

A Spectator's Notebook

I T is obviously absurd to talk of the B.B.C. " banning " the Duke of Windsor's broadcast from Verdun on Monday. If the Duke had suddenly announced his desire to broad- cast to......

Supplementary Questions In The House Of Commons Are A...

but also a dangerous, institution. That was rather disturbingly exemplified on Friday of last week when, in the course of interrogations about Russia, Mr. Gallacher asked the......

Englishmen Travelling Abroad Are Generally Listened To...

and they do not invariably realise that the impression they create is a matter of some import- ance. Here for example, is a paragraph from a recent private letter from a......

There Is One Debt To Germany Which We Ought In

fairness to acknowledge. Through German sources we learn much which we should otherwise have hardly even sus- pected about our own country. My own immediate debt is to the......

I Mentioned Last Week That Commander Henderson, The Prime...

of the convoy system in the Great War, had just died as Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson, K.C.B. That needs correction. I find that about a month before his death he was......

Herr Von Ribbentrop, According To Reports Which I Give As

they reached me, not claiming to be able to vouch for their veracity, is in a quite incredibly exalte mood, more firmly convinced than ever that Great Britain will in no......