15 NOVEMBER 1946, page 5

The Influence Of Rutherford And The Cavendish Laboratory...

bridge in relation to atomic research is continuously pervasive. Dr. W. B. Lewis, who has just been appointed Director of Scientific Research at the Canadian atomic energy plant......

Information Continues To Reach Me About The London...

Theology (University of North Madras), its precious Chancellor, " Bishop " J. C. Ryan, and the Edinburgh Theological Hall affiliated with it. Somewhere in the picture is the......

A Spectator's Notebook

I T was odd to see so many vacant places on the red benches when the King opened Parliament in the House of Lords (reclaimed for half a day from the Commons) on Tuesday.......

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I have not come across much better value for half-a-crown than a publication called Persuasion, the autumn issue of which has just reached me. I ought to say not a publication......

For The Second Year Running, Marshal Stalin Has Been Absent

from the celebrations at Moscow on November 7th. From that fact anyone can draw what deductions he chooses. An incident that came to my knowledge a week or two ago may, or may......

At The Cambridge Union: " Mr. T. M. Kirk (pembroke),

a maiden speaker, announced that he was like a lady producing triplets for the first time—the delivery was likely to be hellish." — Cambridge Review. Maiden meditation,......

New Tasks At Westminster

T HE second session of no Parliament is ever like the first. The exhilaration on the Government side due to electoral victory has in some measure died down. Satisfaction with......

It Is Worth While To Keep An Eye On The

steady increase of the French-speaking population of Canada, which in the ordinary course of nature will soon overtake the English-speaking section. What the ordinary course of......

The Soviet Embassy Reception Last Week Had Its Unique...

as receptions at the Soviet Embassy often have. In the matter of dress, the rule clearly was that there should be no rule—at one ex- treme black coats and Old Etonian ties (if......