In Loco Parentis If I Told My Children Not To
lie on the floor resting their chins on their hands while watching television, because if they did it would be liable to make their faces misshapen, I would not expect them to......
Bisect And Rule ?
We blame ourselves in retrospect,' said the distinguished diplomat wearily, for creating too many new nations after the First War. It certainly led to a great deal of trouble,......
Promotion In Last Week's Issue Of The Bookseller Henry...
(ono of the Worcestershire Puffmores I imagine) wrote: Edward Crankshaw's excursion into noveldont with The Creedy Case (Michael Joseph) has drawn a fair measure of......
A Spectator's Notebook
B Y the time these words appear in print we shall probably know whether Mr. Eden has had what is known in show-jumping circles as a clear round; but even if the French prove......
Fourteen Years Ago
I was prompted by the imminence of the RAF fly-past over London to look at A Spectator's Notebook ' of fourteen years ago. In the Spectator of September 13, 1940, Janus......
A Bastion Of Nothing
The distance between Formosa and the Philippines is about one hundred miles less than the distance between the Philippines and the nearest part of the Communist-held China......
Fight For Formosa ?
e- se T HE reasons for not expecting a major war in the near future are familiar. Neither major group of world powers wants it, neither is ready for it, neither has been driven......
Polls Apart
The News Chronicle Gallup Poll showed that the Socialists had a six per cent. lead over the Conservatives in the affections of the country; the Daily Express Poll of Public......
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