17 DECEMBER 1948, page 5

The Failure Of U.n.o.

T O write off the United Nations as a failure would be unwarrant- able. To pretend that the most recent manifestation of United Nations activity, the General Assembly, was......

It Is Some Time Since I Have Read A More

moving story than the report (in Wednesday's Times) of the murder by terrorists in Malaya of Mr. A. M. Blake, superintendent of a home for orphans not far from Kuala Lumpur. He......

* * * * A Book On Mr. Ll Eorge,

written by a Mr. Malcolm Thomson under the auspices df th Dowager Countess Lloyd George, L.G.'s former secretary, whoin he married in 1943 at the age of So, is lavishly......

Every Week The Tribunal At Church House Gives Newspaper...

i what they want (let me admit at once that I read every word of the fullest report I can get). This week there has, of course, been Mr. Belcher, who, however his evidence may......

To Generations Of Etonians The News Of Sir Henry Marten's

death will have caused a sense of loss much more direct and personal than is usually the case when a master dies. Like all great teachers, he was an institution, but an......

A Spectator 's Notebook

O NE more intolerable imposition on the part of the Government Department has just been brought to light. The once-for-all levy—or so-called "special contribution "—on unearned......

The Government Got The Second Reading Of Its Licensing Bill

on Tuesday night by a reduced majority, but it came very near to not getting it at all. Mr. Herbert Morrison was winding up. The debate had got decidedly lively, as debates......