12 MAY 1950, page 5

A Spectator's Notebook A Few Days Before The Opening Of The

vitally important talks of the Foreign Ministers in London, Mr. Walter Lippmann has contributed to the Washington Post, and no doubt to other American papers, a forcible......

Last Year The Winchester Reading Prize At Cambridge Was...

open for the first time to women, they having just become full members of the University. It was won by a Girtonian. This year women competed again : the prize went to a......

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When luxury liners came back on to the North Atlantic they were first taken for rare and shining symbols of the return of peace. Now they are becoming an accepted part of the......

The Dean Of Canterbury, In Pursuit Of His Less...

activities, told a Canadian audience on Tuesday (according to the Daily Herald) that the Archbishop of Canterbury was " illiterate about his own clergy and profoundly ignorant......

M. Schuman's Lead „

T HE decisions we make in the next few months," said President Truman on Monday, " will determine whether there is to be a third world war." Some of those decisions are in......

I Have Been Sent From South Africa A Copy Of

a Republican con- stitution for South Africa published in 1942 " with the permission and on the authority " of the Nationalist leader, Dr. Malan, today President of the Union of......

Mr. Douglas Jay Is Not, To Put It Politely, The

happiest of the Government's platform speakers, and his remarks at the National Savings Assembly at Folkestone last week can hardly be ranked among his happiest efforts. " The......

How Restaurants Generally Are Reacting To The Removal Of The

5s. limit on meals 1 have not discovered from personal experience, but the fact that the shares of both hotels and restaurants have risen as a result of the Minister's action......