17 MAY 1946, page 4

It Is Hard To Feel Any Satisfaction At The News

that the Allies have ordered the destruction of all memorials in Germany of the 1914-1918 war. A kind of a case, no doubt, can be made out for the action— but are war memorials......

The Protests Of Certain Scientists—i Have Not Observed...

distinguished names among them—at the sentence passed on Dr. Alan Nunn May for disclosing secrets connected with atomic energy to the Soviet Government seem misconceived. The......

It Is From A Very Notable Mission That Lord Halifax

returns to this country this week, and the nation, irrespective of party, owes him deep gratitude for the way he has discharged it. Appointed Ambassador at Washington in '941,......

Sir Harold Scott, Who Is The Head Of Scotland Yard,

in condemning British prisons root and branch, speaks with full knowledge of his subject, for he was for seven years Chairman of the Prison Com- missioners. And there is no......

The Return To London Of The Famous Austrian Pianist, Artur

Sclmabel, to give a series of recitals at the Albert Hall brings into prominence once more London's grave lack of a moderate-sized concert hall since the destruction of the......

Palestine Peril

rr HE Government has not yet declared its attitude towards the .1 recommendations of the recent Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry on the problems of European Jewry and......

On Information Supplied Me I Stated Last Week That The

new Spanish Institute in Eaton Square would be the first of its kind in London. I am informed that there is in fact already an institute of the same kind, or more or less the......

A Spectator's Notebook

M R. ATTLEE'S minor ministerial changes are not very impres- sive and not a little perplexing. The promotion - of Mr. Hugh Gaitskell to the Parliamentary Secretaryship of the......