One Thing Must Be Added. It Would Be Very Unfair
to judge Ramsay MacDonald by his third and last Premiership, particularly by its closing days. For most of that time he was an ill and worn-out man. It was very different in......
A Spectator's Notebook
N O one, I imagine, however critical of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, could fail to be attracted by some sides of him. Many were attracted by many sides. I have seen him in a variety of......
The Adventures Of A Rare Volume. (true ; It Happened
last week.) Bought on Friday by A. for £2 los. Sold on Saturday by A. to B. for £3 los. Bought back on Monday from B. by A. for £4 ros. Sold on Tuesday by A. to C. for £6 los.......
Macdonald Was Very Human—no One Can Doubt That Who Has
read his moving biography of his wife—both in his weaknesses and his virtues, and the vicissitudes of his career meant the breaking of many friendships. There was a time when......
A Competition For Examples Of Compressed Inaccuracy Would...
worth organising. My own entry would consist of seventeen words from Zigzag, the autobiography of W. F. R. Macartney : " Colonel Hyam, a Canadian railroad man. now head of the......
How Many Stern Unbending Teetotallers Listened In To The "
wine " broadcast last Saturday there is no means of knowing. But not many of them, I imagine, sent in protests. There was nothing to protest about, except a most abysmal......
A Good Deal Of Interesting Information About Conditions...
came my way the other day through a channel which I need not specify. It includes, among other things, a remarkable testimony to the efficiency of the Moscow radio, which......
Prison And Punishment
T HE series of articles on prison conditions which have been published in the last six issues of The Spectator may, whatever their faults or virtues, claim at least to be......
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