17 SEPTEMBER 1948, page 5

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In his British Association address condemning what he described as the totally unscientific convention dictating retirement at the age of 6o or 65 Sir Ernest Rock Carling, the......

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A week or two ago I referred to imaginative persons who visualised Lord Kemsley sitting like a bloated spider in his web doing all sorts of things which no respectable Press......

Mr. R. J. Minney, Who Has Written Plays And Film - Scripts,

must be reflecting a little about his wisdom in proffering himself (if he did proffer himself ; he may have been invited) as witness before the Royal Commission on the Press to......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I T will be a strange thing if the freedom of the Press has to be defended primarily against the National Union of Journalists, but that body's annual conference last week-end......

I Do Not Know Who Mr. Henry Thompson Is, But

he must be a very happy man. He has received from Mr. Henry Cheflew- Henry Chellew, M.A., LL.D., I now observe — a piece of paper (described in a covering letter as a parchment,......

India's Aggression

T HE war in Hyderabad will not be a long one. Reasonably good roads lead to the heart of the Nizam's dominions, and along these the Indian troops, with their great superiority......

A Very Interesting Document Has Just Reached Me—a List Of

soo leading Communists in countries of the Eastern hemisphere, other than Russia, compiled by a sub-committee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives......