18 MAY 1951, page 4

It Is Not Often That Two Major Headships Of Houses,

one at each university, have to be filled at the same time. Today all Oxford is wondering who will be the next Warden of All Souls, and all Cambridge who will be the next Master......

A Spectator's Notebook T He Whole Story Of The...

by the Gloucesters in Korea, and the impressive citation in which General Van Fleet paid tribute to their heroism, is deeply moving in itself. But there is something much more......

Next Move In Persia

T HERE has been a shift of interest in the Persian drama in the course of the past ten days. Hitherto the main question has been to discover what the Persians mean by......

It Is Unlikely That The Friends And Relations Of The

3rd Duke of Exeter, whose remains ..were re-interred in the Church of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower last week, took much interest in the proceedings, for the Duke, who......

Considering That Most Notable Collect For Whitsunday,...

necessary as almost any petition—that we may have a right judgement in all things," I noted that the Prayer Book I was using had the spelling " judgment." But another I......

Let Me Commend Unreservedly The Guide To London Museums And

Art Galleries, published by H.M. Stationery Office at 2s. Admirably produced, it is precisely what its title indicates—a guide to how to get there and a guide to what to see on......

• Mr. Kenneth Gape, Of Akron, Ohio, Who Can Succeed

to a legacy of £40,000 if he will come and live in England, has turned down the proposition with a bang, explaining that " I don't want to be an English gentleman with nothing......

I Am Increasingly Doubtful Whether Voltaire Ever Did Use...

phrase about abominating your opinions but being ready to die for your right to hold them.. I am told it was first attributed to him in a volume entitled Voltaire and His......