14 SEPTEMBER 1945, page 4

Having Read For The Third Or Fourth Time That Goering

has been cured of drug-taking while a prisoner of war, I should like to know who on earth cares what Goering has been cured of, or what advan- tage there is to humanity in......

I Am Very Much Interested (in Spite Of Sharing The

affliction of tone-deafness with my friend and colleague Harold Nicolson) in what I have heard of the two School Orchestra Summer Courses held at the end of last month and the......

There Cannot Be Many Complete Sets Of The Spectator, Which

published its first issue in July, 1828, in private hands. A corre- spondent, writing from as far afield as Kenya, mentions that his great-grandfather, grandfather and father......

It Appears That I Unfortunately Used The Word " Uhfortunate

" too often last week. This is unfortunate, but there are mitigating factors. The various paragraphs which ultimately fill up the allotted space are unfortunately not all......

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HE keynote of the Liberal " inquest " at the week-end seems to have been abundant optimism, based on the alertness and keen- ness displayed by numbers of young potential......

The Offer Of Philanthropic Britons To Reduce Their Own...

in order that more food may be sent to liberated Europe does credit to those who make it, but I am not sure that it is a very practical proposition. Rations here have been • cut......

There Are Signs, Moreover, That Conservatism Is Not...

play the reactionary to the extent requisite for a Liberal revival. Two statements in Tuesday's pipers were instructively indicative of that. One was an article in the Daily......

Peace In The Making?

I T is idle to suggest that the question-mark is superfluous. Would that it were. But over the meeting of Foreign Ministers now in progress a great interrogation hangs—great in......