14 APRIL 1950, page 4

The Director Of The Bureau Of Current Affairs, Defending His

organisation against the charge of pro-Soviet bias, states that out of 185 handbooks, pamphlets, &c., published in a period of nearly three years, 182 said nothing about Soviet......

I Am Not Surprised That The Singular Proposal Of The

Derbyshire Education Committee to establish a school for climbers in a mansion at Buxton purchased, it is said, for £17,000, should be severely criticised by the Buxton Liberal......

A Great Many Readers Of The Times Must, I Am

certain, have been profoundly impressed by the letter on " The Message of Easter " from Canon H. K. Luce, the headmaster of Durham School, which appeared in that paper on......

A Spectator's Notebook I Had Never Been At The Maundy Money

ceremony till this year. The offer of a privileged place close to the sanctuary where the King and Queen sat was not to be declined lightly—or indeed at all. The brilliance of......

The Main Outlines Of The Cambridge Town-planning Scheme...

towards the end of last year ; but we have had to wait till this week for the exposition of the full details—which the University Press now provides in two admirably-produced......

Ineffective Arabs

I T has become axiomatic for British and American statesmen to assert that the salvation of the Middle East is to be sought . through ordered economic progress. So often has......

Mr. I. J. Pitman's Desire For A Decent Name For

the Festival of Britain site on the south bank of the Thames is laudable, but I am not greatly impressed by any of the suggestions advanced so far. For that matter I don't......