18 JUNE 1948, page 5

A Spectato R's Notebook O F All The Public Men—such As

Lord Addison and Lord Samuel— who demonstrate conspicuously the fallacy of judging mental and physical powers by calendar years the outstanding example is General Smuts, whose......

* * * * Mr. Churchill Has Adopted A Generous

attitude towards Mr. Morrison's now notorious faux pas. If he had, in spite of the Lord President's apology, raised the matter in the House of Commons, the Lord President would......

Henry Fawcett, The Blind Postmaster-general, And Dame...

Fawcett, in spite of his disability, was a great skater, and his small daughter, as a child of nine, guided him about the ice by whistling. The child was later placed above the......

The Parliamentary Secretary To The Ministry Of Food Is As

skilful a politician as anyone in the Commons, but even she failed to make anything like a good case out of the shockingly bad case of the grant of a licence for a retail shop......

On Wednesday Of This Week The Bristol Evening Post Ltd.

announced a dividend for the last year of 20 per cent. tax free, no ordinary achievement for an independent (or any other) evening paper. The remarkable and rather romantic......

Bishops Are Unaccountable. I Must Be Allowed To Go As

far at least as that, in the light of an observation attributed by the Daily Mail to Dr. Walter Carey, Bishop of Bloemfontein 1921-1933. " I am afraid of the Olympic Games," he......

Where Russia Stands T Here Was No Visible Reason In...

though there may have been in internal, politics why Mr. Truman should have devoted his speech at Berkeley, California, last Saturday to a particularly acrid attack on the......

Friday Morning Might Have Been Peaceful, But Not At All

; the General was off for a tour round the laboratories—engineering, physics, low temperature, on all of which he had discerning comments to make ; then a lunch at John's—but......