16 APRIL 1942, page 4

A Friend Of Mine Sent A Friend Of Mine To

prison on Tuesda rather untoward state of affairs. The first friend is a Bow S magistrate, the second (more accurately an acquaintance) Mr. —, why immortalise his name in this......

The Old Lady Who Had Been Blitzed Applied Urgently To

relevant local authority for a bedstead. She was sympatheti received and assured that the committee would grant her one due course. "But I want it now," she protested. "I've got......

English Culture Is Being Administered To Greece Through R...

agencies. I take this paragraph from an unofficial B Council survey of English reading in South Eastern Europe: A generally unrealised fact is that in Greece the four most......

A Realistic Budget

a country now accustomed to the conception of " total " it needs no explaining that finance occupies a key position main front. It is both a sign and a determinant of the use......

Having Commented Some Months Ago On The Amount Of Time

expended collectively by persons who assemble in large numbers to listen to miscellaneous oratory at public luncheons, I am glad to see that the Government is officially......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I T is stated that Sir Horace Wilson will shortly be retiring from his position as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, which carries with it the titular post of Head of the......

So Minorities In Britain Are Oppressed After All. Two W

farmers, it appears, cited recently before a court of s jurisdiction in Carmarthenshire for non-compliance with cultiva orders, were not only fined for the offence but required......

Dr. Julian Huxley, After Waiting In America Seven Weeks For

a seat on a Clipper (can Britain and America, with a joint aeroplane- output more than twice Germany's, not produce enough Clippers for a proper transatlantic service?) has got......

" Qui S'Excuse . . Professor Guglielmo Ferrero, the eminent Italian historian, w at present living in Switzerland, was surprised to get a letter rec from a firm of publishers in......