14 NOVEMBER 1941, page 4

So Sir Norman Birkett Has Chosen Dignity And A Sufficient

competence on the Bench to affluence at the Bar. His elevation is deserved and will be generally popular, for unlike some great advocates he possesses an essentially judicial......

" The Lire-changing Principles Which Have Been...

work at Calvary Church at its best will continue to be the basis." The Rev. Samuel Shoemaker, quoted by the Daily Telegraph. Not the first time a. place of worship has been used......

Frank Pick Has Left Behind A Little Book, Paths To

Peace (Rout- ledge, 2s. 6d.), which he would have been glad to think of as his testament. In the last letter I had from him, towards the end of last month, he said, " I hope you......

Having Occasion To Look Through The Text Of The Soviet

Consti- tution of 1936 the other day, I came on an article which surprised, and still surprises, me. Article XII states, among other things, that in Russia is now realised the......

A Spectator's Notebook I T Is A Melancholy Week In Which

farewell must be said to two such men as Henry Nevinson and Frank Pick. It is hard to start a paragraph about Nevinson and not end by writing a page, but tribute is being paid......

Everyone Will Think The Better Of Sir Archibald Wavell For

his frank admission to the Council of State at Delhi that he made a miscalculation about the possibilities of an enemy attack in Libya last March, and everyone will welcome......

I Am Sorry To Observe A Quite Unwonted Note Of

intolerance creeping into the leader-columns of the Sunday Times. Last Sunday that admirable and influential journal called on the Government to silence out of hand any German......

The Appointment Of Professor R. H. Tawney To A Post

on Lord Halifax's staff at Washington is among the startlingly unexpected happenings that this war is bringing about, for if there is any place on earth where Prof. Tawney would......

The Unrecruited Women T He Government With Sounding Of...

bending itself to the task of calling up its last reserves of industrial labour, and has reached the stage when its appeal is most urgently addressed to women. " Give me six......