15 FEBRUARY 1935, page 6

As An Echo Of A Paragraph Which Appeared In This

column a few weeks ago I have received from Nairobi a copy of a letter in the East African Standard of January 11th, from a correspondent who suggests that the fitting......

Anything More Foolhardy_ Than The Suggestion—which The...

actually says he is. considering —that car-drivers should be forbidden to sound their horns by day as well as night it would be difficult to conceive. The ban at night is......

If The Prime Minister Should Decide To Give Way To

Mr. Baldwin—of which, it may be said, there is no visible sign—all Ministers would surrender their portfolios, and a general reconstruction of the Cabinet would be not merely......

A Spectator's Notebook %v Im The Air Thick With Every Kind

of rumour about Cabinet reconstruction it is as well to stick to the two or three hard facts of the situation. And the hardest of them is the now all-but universal insistence......

Sir John Simon, By The Way, Explained In The House

on Wednesday what he meant by a phrase which perplexed me last week regarding "misleading statements about the official communique" issued after the Anglo-French conversations......

The Fiasco Of The Unemployment Board

T HE defect which we saw to be inherent in the scheme of the Unemployment Act from the moment when it was first produced in November, 1933,, has proved its undoing. Seldom has......

One Writes With Melancholy Of Clifford Sharp, For His •

death at 51 sets the seal on a life that failed to sustain its early promise. As the first and only editor of the New Statesman—his resignation synchronized with its expansion......

The Peace-ballot Has Already Established Its Right To Be...

seriously, but I am astonished to learn that its organizers consider they have a reasonable prospect of polling some ten million votes. With the harvest-work only just beginning......