18 FEBRUARY 1949, page 5

Quite Apart From This Particularly Flagrant Case, The Way In

which the newspapers, with hardly an exception, pursue Princess Margaret, who is 18, with camera and paragraph whenever she is seen in public with anyone masculine under 4o is......

On With The Pact

N OWHERE are rumours that the Atlantic Pact negotiations are not going well calculated to create more exhilaration than a Moscow. For that reason, if for no other—and there are,......

With The Approach Of Spring, And Its Invitation To Staggered

holidays, comes Mr. Ashley Courtenay's annual volume Let's Halt Awhile, with his selection, and description, of hotels in Great Britain, and now also Ireland, north and south,......

A Lady Named Mrs. Hugo Harper, Who Has Not Impinged

on my consciousness before, is said to have been asserting at Cambridge, at a meeting of the Cambridge University Nationalist Club (which may not be developing Fascist......

How Do Blind Persons Manage To Use An Automatic Telephone

? The reply is given by the Postmaster-General in a written answer, which attracted no attention, last week. Arrangements, said Mr. Paling, are made to mark the edge of the dial......

Information, Some Of It Direct From America, Reaches Me In

considerable volume about gas-chamber executions and the like. A fortnight ago, guarding myself cautiously against dogmatism, I said that no country seemed to have experimented......

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HIS week's (and I should think this year's) Vulgarity Prize : Margaret and the new boy friend watch the races at Lingfield. Sunday Express. The gentleman accompanying the......

I Have Heard A Good Deal About What Is Known

as the Government Hotel in Park Street, beside Park Lane, for the accommodation of distinguished visitors to this country. This week, thanks to a hospitable invitation from one......

Nothing Has Stirred Readers Of This Column So Much For

a long time as the definition of a hinny. Letters about it have poured in on me from east, west, south and north. A hinny, I said, was the off-spring of a she-ass by a stallion,......