18 MARCH 1938, page 6

One Tribute Deserves To Be Paid In These Agitated Days,

and I, at least, would like to pay it. The evening paper posters, the daily paper headlines—all, no doubt inevitable, and in the tradition of the trade—produce the maximum of......

Lord Lothian's Reference To Recent Events, By The Way- "

now that substantial international (not internal) justice at last exists in Europe "—ought to be inscribed in letters of gold over the garden gate at Berchtesgaden and the ex-......

Political Moves Are Carried On In These Days With So

fierce a spotlight turned on them that not many revelations are left to see the light in the memoirs of the dead. Among the few is Mr. Lloyd George's attempt, in collaboration......

A Spectator's Notebook It Is Curious How The Movement For

some form of com- pulsory service in this country is identified with the group known vaguely as " Milner's young men," though one of them at least never had official contact......

What Happened In Austria Before Last Friday Is Of Little

more than academic interest now ; but since Dr. Schuschnigg has been accused of trying to rig his plebiscite by putting the voting age as high as 24, and so disfranchising tens......

Is Youth Or Age An Asset In The Handling Of

great problems ? Mr. Chamberlain is 69, M. Blum 66. Signor Mussolini is 54, Herr Hitler 48. Lord Halifax is 56, Mr. Eden 4o. Paws-......

News From America

A N officer of the Association of Foreign Press Corre- spondents, in New York, has lately written in its organ, Foreign Press, that the British public receives no adequate......

Some Little Time Ago I Referred In This Column To

the remarkable experience of a Parsee lady, Miss Bapsy Pavry, in recent years, in being received by President Coolidge, the Pope, King George and Queen Mary, Herr Hitler, the......

The Secretary For Scotland Was, Appropriately Enough,...

at the first night of -James Bridie's new play The King of Nowhere at the Old Vic on Tuesday. Appropriately- enough because, as Walter Elliot and 0. H. Mayor, the Secretary of......