19 APRIL 1946, page 4

In An Age That Is Sated With Sumptuosity In Films,

it is something of a novelty for a film to be commended on the ground (among others) that it is probably one of the least expensive ever manu- factured. But the claim, I should......

Clouded Easter

T HE assertion that the Christian world thinks less each year of the origin and history of Easter may perhaps be challenged, but not with much conviction. The Christian world,......

Bernard Shaw Once Wrote That When The Professors Of...

become the makers of cannon the millennium may be expected to begin. The remarkable career of Mr. Oliver Franks, the new Provost of Queen's at Oxford, villa left the Chair of......

The Contest Between Amenities And Necessities Is...

peculiarly dramatic form in the matter of the mining operations at Wentworth-Woodhouse in Yorkshire. It is perfectly intelligible that the owner, Earl Fitzwilliam, should exert......

Mr. Shinwell Deserves To Be Judged By The Effect He

gives, or tries to give, to his threat to get mid-week sport stopped on account of the absenteeism it creates in the coalfields. The miners themselves would probably resent it,......

It Was High Time An Enquiry About The New Forest

was set on foot. It is well, moreover, in that connection to remember that " forest" does not necessarily mean woodland—compare Forest of Dartmoor, which has only rare......

A Spectator's Notebook

A S the Nuremberg trial winds its slow length along the problem of a permanent record of the trial becomes more acute. It is immensely important that many of the damning......