17 JUNE 1938, page 6

* * * * " The Speech [mr. Lloyd George's]

was a characteristic and brilliant effort. Will it turn the scale in the Stafford election ? " asked one of the ex-Prime Minister's strongest admirers three days before the......

The " Quadringenary Of The Open English Bible "—the Times

is my authority for a term unknown to the Oxford English Dictionary—raises the old question of how far the Fnglish Bible is read today. There is a common impressiod that,......

Those Who Contend That Test Matches In This Country Should

be played to a finish, or that at any rate they should have six days allotted to them, will be confirmed in their views by the result of the Nottingham match, which after a......

The English Bible

T HE celebration on Sunday of the four hundredth anniversary of the order issued by Henry VIII that the English Bible should be placed in every English Church has a special......

* * * * That Sir John Reith Will Make

a success of Imperial Air- ways is much more certain than that the new Director- General, whoever he may be, will make a success of the B.B.C. In that field Sir John Reith was a......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE winning essay in the competition for the prize recently offered by the German Military Academy for the best paper on an attack on Czechoslovakia is a significant document.......