18 MARCH 1949, page 5

A Spectator 's Notebook T He Turmoil In The House Of

Commons on Tuesday was due to the Minister of Health and no one else. For reasons quite inexplicable Mr. Bevan chose to give the House a display of his least engaging......

I Should Like To Think That My Comments Of A

fortnight ago had, together with comments elsewhere, something to do with the decision of the University Grants Committee not only to agree to the increase of the salaries of......

The Argument Arising Out Of The Report—which Is...

Clement Danes was to be regarded as the official church of the Royal Air Force should be carried further. I should have been sur- prised if the report had been true, for it......

Paying Our Way ?

T HERE can be no doubt whitever that the Economic Survey for 1949 is an impressive document, likely to inspire its readers with a sense of achievement in 1948 and with hope of......

The House Of Commons Showed Wisdom In Refusing A Second

reading to the Simplified Spelling Bill. It would have shown greater wisdom if it had refused it by a larger majority. The supporters of the Bill showed no realisation of the......

I Sometimes, Indeed Very Frequently, Wonder What Would...

private businesses if they were run as some Government depart- ments are. For example, someone I know (I know him all too well) early in 1946 took a small house which had just......

It Should Have Been Of Course Oyster Bars Jam Probe

There were reasons for the error, but no matter. Let me offer now: GLENVIL HALL ATTACKS DALTON WHISPER TALES......