17 AUGUST 1934, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook T He Appointment Of Prof. Coatman...

News Editor of the B.B.C. is interesting. Sir John Reith and his colleagues are not satisfied with the way their news is being presented night by night, and Prof. Coatman's......

If We Rely On The B.b.c. To Teach Us How

to pronounce we ought to be able to rely on the Post Office to teach us how to spell. And I cannot think that Sir Kingsley Wood ought to teach us to spell indivisible......

The Death Of A Lady Said To Be The Inventor

of flag-days arouses mingled reflections. In a sense it was an inspira- tion, and the yield to charities from that day—the first flag-battue was in 1914 — must be beyond......

No One Can Pretend That The Australian Tour Is Leaving

a much better flavour behind it than the English tour in Australia eighteen months ago. The Voce mystery—as I write it is an unexplained mystery still—is only one of a series of......

Mr. Hore-belisha Is Likely To Acquire New Fame, Or A

new kind of fame, over his controversy with the Thames Conservancy. On the face of it the connexion between the Ministry of Transport and what the daily papers decide with one......

It Was Something Of An Achievement—though An Odd One—on The

part of The Times to publish both a news message and a leading article on the death of Prince Gonzalo without a single reference to the haemophilia from which all but one of the......

An All-britain Transport Policy

T ROUBLE has been averted on the railways. The wage agreement concluded between the main line companies and the principal unions is satisfactory so far as it goes. That is to......