16 NOVEMBER 1934, page 6

Sir John Simon Dropped An Interesting Challenge To...

literature in the course of his speech in the debate on the private manufacture of armaments last week. He based his peroration on what he thought was on the whole " the most......

The Depressed Area Proposals

T HOUGH a long time has elapsed since the appointment of four special Commissioners to investigate - the needs of the depressed. areas, their work has, on the whole, justified......

After His Southampton Speech The . Prime Minister Will Be...

with new interest, for he has evidently recaptured a good deal of his lost vigour. His declaration on the private manufacture of armaments would very nearly satisfy Lord Cecil......

It Is Hard To Imagine Any Grimmer Irony Than The

announcement that the admission fee to Lord Beaverbrook's exhibition of war pictures in Regent Street includes entertainment-tax. Emphasis on the horrors of war can, no doubt,......

Bed-bugs Had The Time Of Their Lives On Tuesday, When

they were lectured about at the Royal Sanitary Institute. A peer presided over them, another peer urged the need for an intensive study of them, Professors and Medical Officers......

A Spectator's Notebook

M R. LLOYD GEORGE, I see, invites anyone who thinks that he has omitted from his books a single document which he ought to have published to go and search through his......

General Smuts' Speeches Always Read Better Than They...

striking address at the Royal Institute of International Affairs dinner (delivered to what Lord Derby, in the chair, described with some pardonable hyperbole as " the most......