14 SEPTEMBER 1944, page 4

Nothing Could Be Better Than The Appointment Of M. Rene

Massigli as French Ambassador in London. Indeed, his claims to that post are so obvious that, once it was announced that M. Bidault was to be Foreign Minister in the......

Some One (i Disclaim Both The Credit And The Cavil

the quotation may deserve) calls attention to the remarkable prescience of W. S. Gilbert, who, with 1944 obviously in view, included in his Pirates of Penzance a song beginning-......

The Practice Of Adding To Per Cent. To Hotel Bills

instead of tips has never become as general in this country as on the Continent, but there seems to be good reason now why it should be made not only general but compulsory.......

Mr. Pethick-lawrence Raised An Interesting And Important...

a speech he made on the future' of Europe at Guildford on Sunday. It is not a new question ; the Atlantic Charter spoke of it, though rather with two voices. The form of......

The Reception Given By The Overseas League On Tuesday To

welcome Sir Evelyn and Lady Wrench home from an Empire tour which has lasted exactly four years was robbed of no little of its attraction by Lady Wrench's absence through......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE fact that Lord Cecil reached his eightieth birthday this week must not pass unnoticed, for it serves to focus attention for a moment at least on a unique public figure. (So......

I Am Able (as Every Self-conscious Journalist Loves To Say)

to throw important light on the future of a historic British Posses - sion. It has always been said that when the Gibraltar apes, W ith which every visitor to the Rock is......

The Victory Conference

ITTLE news has so far emerged from what has been happily termed the Victory Conference at Quebec. That is inevitable ad right. What is known is that the discussions are largely......