15 AUGUST 1947, page 11

Privileged Prisoners

By SIR ALEXANDER PATERSON T HE Home Secretary has recently visited the most modern insti- tution for adolescent delinquent girls. When Parliament passed the Prevention of Crime......

New Eastern Tensions

By G. B. THOMAS S INCE Secretary Marshall made his speech at Harvard on June 5th about European reconstruction the Soviet grip on Eastern Europe has steadily tightened. There......

Listening In The Bitter Night

Ha cannot catch whisper from owl-flight Nor softest murmur from the snowfall, Yet listening listening listening must await That voice grown quieter than all Such soundlessness.......