12 SEPTEMBER 1947, page 4

The Arab Higher Committee's Suggestion That Jews Who Wish To

migrate from Palestine should move to " the free Jewish republic of Birobijan " strjkes me as slightly disingenuous. Birobijan, as perhaps not every schoolboy knows, is situated......

* * * *

The British Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations is quite frankly not impressive. Mr. Bevin, of course, is not going ; there was never any prospect of that,......

Lord Riddell, I Learn From Lord Camrose's New Book On

the Press and its Controllers, in addition to being chief proprietor of the News of the World, had at one time an interest in the Church Times. The association seems something......

* * * *

The legend "Turnings to Members of the House of Commons and many Titled People, &c.," falls agreeably on the ear, even though the meaning is not immediately apparent. Actually I......

I Am Asked From Time To Time What I Think

of various news-letters of one sort and another, particularly the sort that lays high claim to access to special and authoritative information. Well, these publi- cations are of......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE House of Lords took itself and the occasion seriously on Tuesday. The attendance would have made a very respectable show in their Lordships' own Chamber, which is, of......

Women's Skirts, Or Dresses, Or Whatever They Call Them, Are

to be some inches longer. So it has been decreed in Paris, where such things are decided. But the judgement of Paris may be upset by the judgement of Sir Stafford, and I hope it......

Lessons From Grimethorpe

T HE strike at Grimethorpe Colliery carries with it a number of hard but useful lessons. The general public, faced with the spec- tacle of 400,000 tons of coal already lost in a......