18 AUGUST 1950, page 3

Two Years

It now seems to be generally accepted that the period of con- scription will be increased to two years as soon as Parliament has a chance to pass the necessary legislation. If......

The Editor Of The Spectator

Mr. Wilson Harris, the Editor of the Spectator, entered University College Hospital on August 10th and underwent an emergency operation on Sunday, August 13th. The operation was......

The Poor Must Stay At Home

The first thing that the Catering Wages Commission uncovered, in its recently published report on the operation in the hotel industry of the Catering Wages Act, was a state of......

At Strasbourg

T HE sugar doves that last year filled the shops of the Strasbourg confectioners have gone. Peace, this year, is symbolised by guns ; and while in the newly-built House of......

The Long Tail

The last of the four test matches between England and the West Indies achieved in its last day a sort of symbolic significance. The symbol was a very dreary one—that of a long,......