13 JANUARY 1939, page 6

Whether Mr. George Turner, The Master Of Marlborough, Is To

be congratulated on his appointment as Principal of the new Makerere College in Uganda, I hardly know. It is obviously not promotion. If they consulted their own preferences......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE new Parliamentary Group of which Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P., is the central figure is neither, so far as I can gather, quite dead nor quite alive. The public meeting which was......

The Appearance Of Yet Another Weekly News Letter On My

desk—the Arrow, bearing no indication of authorship or standpoint—makes me wonder what future this reversion to a historic form of journalism has. I should fancy not much, for......

The Activity And Ingenuity Displayed By A Small Section Of

the unemployed in staging unexpected demonstrations with the assistance of such stage properties as a makeshift coffin appear to be due to a few members of the Inter- national......

The Announcement Of The Demise Of One Of The Most

historic of German daily papers, the Berliner Tageblatt, provokes melancholy reflections. Ten years or so ago I talked with its distinguished editor, Theodor Wolff, now an exile......

The Appointment Of Professor Felix Frankfurter To Fill...

on the Supreme Court of the United States created by Justice Cardozo's resignation will have surprised only those who doubted whether Mr. Roosevelt would have the courage to......

More Autobiography From Who's Who : " Entered Journalism And

became widely known as publicist . . . twice refused offer of knighthood You all do know how on the Lupercal . . ; gave voluntary assistance of great value to many Government......

Mr. Hore-belisha's Record M R. Hore-belisha's Speech To...

Plymouth was a political event of more than ordinary importance. It gave him the opportunity to make an apologia pro vita sua—or, at any rate, a justi- fication of the most......