When Correspondents From Germany Wrote About A Possible...
defence among the old fortifications of Cologne I could think only of one inhabitant of those grassy forts and glacis. Not once but many times just after the last war I wandered......
Wellington And Napoleon
Sta,—I was interested in Mr. Harold Nicolson's Marginal Comment in your issue of March 9th, and his reference to Napoleon. He asserts "it was only men like Lord Whitworth, or......
Sta,—it Would Be A Very Good Thing It The Conservative
Party could find a new name. Conservative sounds much too embalmed and hermetically sealed against everything new and fresh. Progressive might be suitable, suggesting a steady,......
An Archbishop's Speech
St,—Readers of The Spectator have rubbed their eyes these days. First we get " Janus " little puffs for Franco and Salazar, now a description of Dr. Bernard Griffin's......
Camp Thoughts
SIR,—Private X and his companions discussing Education on their bags of grain were perhaps a little hard on the pedagogues, to whom, though they do not seem to realise it, they......
Freedom And Order
Sut,—With reference to Viscount Hinchingbrooke's happy metaphor of "the twin pillars of Freedom and Order" (The Spectator, February , znd), may I suggest that Freedom and Order......
The Conservative Party
4e- Sut,—I do not think Professor duoert Murray need be anxious. Not even if the Party goes down at the polls shalt we change our name. But we shall change the present public......
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