17 MARCH 1939, page 6

Lord Ronaldshay's Selection As Conservative Candidate For...

involve again the relationship between local committees and the Conservative Central Office. A local Conservative, Captain Adrian Hopkins, who has sufficient local prestige to......

The Dogmatic Affirmation De Minimis Non Curat Lex Is Only

true on the narrowest interpretation. The law courts, at any rate, are always bothering about the most inconsiderable trifles imaginable—though no doubt when a case involves a......

Sir Ralph Wedgwood's Candidature For Cambridge Is Very...

return of Independent Members for the Universities—e.g. ; Sir Arthur Salter, Mr. A. P. Herbert, Mr. T. E. Harvey, and Miss Rathbone—is in fashion at present, as it should be. An......

The Decision Of The Kitchen Committee Of The House Of

Commons to run a cocktail-party on, I think, the 29th of this month, has aroused a good deal of adverse criticism. and I am not surprised. The idea, it appears, is to popu-......

The Martyred Rich " For Example, Who Live Alone Very

quietly with a staff of seven domestics, am ouite unable to obtain a kitchen- maid."—Mr. Thursby-Pelham in The Times, March i 3th. JANus.......

The Government's Best Friends Can Hardly Congratulate It...

publicity methods. The " optimism " outbreak of a week ago was on the best Goebbels model. Every London paper had the same story to tell, reproducing with variations, ranging......

Three Or Four Days Ago I Was Asking A German

recently arrived in this country about the efficiency of German mili- tary aeroplanes. He answered, as I expected, that many of the planes were unreliable owing to the poor......

Is Employment Improving ?

T HIS week, in the House of Commons, the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, again essayed the task of defending the Government's unemployment policy. This time, however, he......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE Prime Minister is 70 on Saturday, and everyone, irrespective of party or of agreement or disagreement with his policy, will combine congratulations with deep sympathy for a......