12 JUNE 1947, page 5

America And Europe

I MMEDIATELY after Mr. Marshall's speech at Harvard on June 5th, in which he said that the countries of Europe should draw up a programme designed to put the continent on its......

Oxford, More Chivalrous In This Matter Than Cambridge,...

on the ,same footing as men as regards degrees soon after the last war. Cambridge has not done it yet, but the thing is now as good as settled, since the syndicate which has had......

The Business—not Editorial—partnership Between That...

Punch found singularly happy expression in the luncheon given a few days ago by the proprietors of the latter journal to the editor and founder of The Countryman, Mr. J. W.......

Even His Enemies—and I Suppose A Small Minority Of The

people whom at one time or another he annoyed might care to count them- selves such—must have felt a sense of loss when Mr. James Agate died last week. He was in his way an......

I Hear That Sir Barry Jackson And The Stratford-on-avon...

Theatre authorities have offered to give a series of Shakespearean performances for the German prisoners in the many camps in the neighbourhood. This is the kind of action......

Protests Are Made From Time To Time, And I Should

like to add Mine now, at the practice of bringing in verdicts of " Suicide while of unsound mind" at inquests when there is no evidence of in- sanity except the suicide itself.......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HAT the man-power situation is difficult is understood by every- one, but most of us are getting a little tired of the monotonous reiteration of "man-power shortage " by......