14 DECEMBER 1945, page 4

There Can Be No Doubt, In Retrospect, That Last Week's

vote of censure did the Opposition more harm than good, and the Govern- ment more good than harm. The speaking, so far as the Front Benches were concerned, was, surprisingly......

I Quoted Last Week The Colonial Secretary's Statement In The

House of Commons that between 1922 and 1944 the number of Jews who emigrated from this country to Palestine was 2,482, which, I observed, was at the rate of little more than too......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HERE has been something dramatically undramatic about the Joyce appeal in the House of Lords this week. The red benches in the Robing Room where the Lords now meet are well......

As I Move About I Find Some Perplexity And A

good deal of regret at the rarity of any word of counsel or admonition from the Arch- bishop of Canterbury on great public issues. Respect for Dr. Fisher is universal,......

There Was A Curious Confusion Of Vowels In Hansard For

one day last week. The report of an answer by the Minister of Health runs : " What I have done is to inform doctors that it is highly improbable that I will permit the sale and......

I Wonder Very Much Whether It Is Wise To Make

the King's Christmas broadcast a permanent institution. If King George feels he has something he wants to say to his people at Christmas that, of course, ends the matter. No one......

The Controversy About The Seat Of U.n.o. Will Probably Have

ended in a definite decision one way or the other by the time this appears, but some of the propaganda has gone a little beyond the mark. An article in last Sunday's Observer by......

America And The Loan

HILE this is being written, Parliament is debating the V V American loan and the Bretton Woods Monetary Plan with which it is so intimately connected. The loan and the plan have......