16 AUGUST 1946, page 4

A Spectator's Notebook

JJ ANUS has left London for a well-earned holiday and for the next three weeks these notes will come to you from an altogether lower level. The finger of his deputy can by no......

It Must Have Been During That Far-off Canterbury Week That

I first drove (conning, no doubt, my single interjection) througlr the jungle of sweet chestnut on the ridge above Chilharn. I remember noticing at the time what dense cover it......

I Would Like To Have Gone To Canterbury Last Week.

The cricket would not have drawn me, for I do not really enjoy watching the game played in the middle distance. I like to be near enough, as you are in village matches, to see......

This Is The Season At Which A Great Part Of

the population of these islands faces, and once more fails to solve, the problem of how to get the sand off its feet before putting on its shoes and socks. If you are reading......

Paris Soundings

OMEWHERE beneath the froth and turbulence of its plenary sessions the steady stream of the real work of the Paris Con- ference is beginning to flaw. The two commissions on the......

I Bought A Brace Of Jeeps Last Week, At. A

-Ministry of Supply auction, for £250. The glimpse of state-ownership at work was not inspiring. Here was a vast dump of U.S. Army equipment—millions of cigarettes, tons and......