15 SEPTEMBER 1950, page 3

To Me The Curious Thing About Tny Home-grown, Home- Cured

tobacco, of which I have just smoked the first two ounces, is that it not only looks like iobacco, but it tastes like tobacco as well. As I puff—still rather incredulously—away......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I OFTEN wonder what quirk in our national character deters us from forming a Foreign Legion. It seems, and has seemed for ,years, such an obvious way of augmenting our fegular......

"i Should Like," Dr. Edith Summerskill Is Reported To Have

said on Sunday, "the United Nations publicity unit to make an approach to the writers, producers and financiers of the film world who glorify war and glamorise the conqueror." I......

A Friend Who Was In Peking Last_ Month Reports No

material change in its atmosphere of timeless and assured urbanity. He travelled there by rail and noted that all trains were running to schedule, orderly queues replaced the......

" Is Theie," Asked The Man Of Property Wistfully," Any-

thing that doesn't need maintenance ? Can anyone claim that he has in his possession something which never has to be looked after, which involves him in no responsibility of any......

Co-ordination Wanted

T HE war in Korea began some twelve weeks ago, and yet it was only on Tuesday of this week that the Foreign Ministers of the United States, Great Britain and France came......