14 MARCH 1952, page 5

Read:ng Sir Frederick Ponsonby's Recollections Of Three...

on a reference of some domestic interest. Dur- ing the constitutional crisis of 1910, Sir Frederick relates, King George V asked Mr. Asquith. then Prime Minister, " whether he......

Paradoxically Enough The North Atlantic Treaty Organisa-...

much, and the British Cabinet will lose little, by the appointment of Lord Ismay as Secretary-General of the former. The reason for the latter conclusion is that he is to be......

Realism And Hope T He Chancellor Of The Exchequer Began His

Budget speech on a note of realism and ended it on a note of hope. The first measure of the success of his Budget was that it achieved a corresponding swing in the public's......

" It Costs About £5 To Shoot One Pheasant "

said Mr. J. Scott Henderson, Q.C., on Monday in the course of an enquiry into the finance of an estate in Hampshire consisting of farm-lands and coverts; Mr. Henderson, it is......

It Is Difficult To See How The General Interests Of

the Church of England are served by the translation of the Bishop of Durham to Winchester. It is certainly not in the nature of promotion. Winchester actually ranks next after......

It Is Difficult To Assume An Association Of Any Kind

between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. John E. Hayes, President of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in the United States, but Mrs. Hayes has fortuitously......

The Minister Of Works' Refusal To Reprieve The Dome Of

Discovery seems to he quite sound. The Dome was created for a particular purpose, it has served that purpose and no one, so far as I have seen, has been able to suggest any......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I AM not in favour of imputing motives, but motives are sometimes revealed unintentionally. I can't help thinking there was something of that in Mr. Aneurin Bevan's affirma-......