16 JUNE 1939, page 6

I Should Be Reluctant To Say A Word In Gratuitous

criticism of Lord Perth. But it is not criticism, let alone gratuitous criticism, to say that just as he has no special qualifications for running the Ministry of Agriculture,......

The Claims Of The Colonies

O NCE a year, on the occasion of the Colonial O ffi ce vote, the House of Commons turns its attention to that vast portion of the British Empire whose inhabi- tants are not in a......

I Have Referred More Than Once In Recent Weeks To

th.:. revelations regarding aspects of the Soviet regime published earlier this year in the Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia under the name of a General Krivitsky, who was......

Most Social Workers Are Familiar With The Deplorably Low...

commonly paid in hotels, restaurants and clubs—the result, no doubt, largely of the assumption that tips will bring the total to a reasonable level. Apparently conditions in......

A Spectator's Notebook

A N interesting, though obviously not an original, question is raised by an American reader of this column. Just as captive Greece took her fierce captor captive by imparting to......

The Theft Of The Watteau From The Louvre, Carried Out,

as it appears to have been, in broad daylight, when the galleries were open to the general public, is on the face of it a remarkable achievement. But given enough......

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I was wrong, it seems, in thinking that Mr. A. P. Herbert would succeed in dissuading the President of the Board of Trade to disallow the incorporation of Dr. Buchman's move-......