16 OCTOBER 1953, page 6

The Scapegoats

When the young behave in an unusually objectionable way, society has got, firmly into the habit of putting part of the blame for their lapses on the trashy literature and the......

Stooping To Carrion

On about the last day of the stalking season one of my brothers shot a stag which dropped dead and rolled twenty yards downhill. As it came to rest a golden eagle swooped down......

At The End Of The Third Drive Last Saturday Morning

a butler was seen advancing, like a subfusc symbol of doom, through a field of knee-high lucerne towards the guns. The face of the Yugoslav Ambassador, who was standing next to......

Erratum

Last week I said that the Governor of Jamaica was officially styled " Governor and Commander-in-Chief." The erudite Professor Brogan writes to point out that this is not so; his......

A Spectator's Notebook A Sort Of Epidemic Of Humbug Seems To

have broken out. Officials in London and Washington emphasise that any connection between this week-end's conference of Foreign Ministers and the developments in Trieste is......

Right Action In British Guiana T He Largest Section Of...

British opinion is still ineradicably, and even involuntarily, liberal. It is liberal in its belief that people left to the free expression of their general will on the whole......

Old Soldiers

In the course of Archangel 1918-19, a fascinating account of a forgotten sideshow which Messrs. Constable will publish on Monday, Lord Ironside mentions, in passing, that he has......

Ye Newe

The capacious new hotel (8 storeys, 240 bedrooms) now being built by the Knopp Hotel _Company of New York at the corner of Bond Street and Conduit Street is to be called the......