19 AUGUST 1949, page 4

Why Is The Government Like A Bunch Of Bananas ?

Because they come in green, they turn yellow, and there isn't a straight one in the whole bunch. (Not this Government necessarily ; it serves for any......

A Spectator ' S Notebook I T Is A Very Great Pity

that the only features of interest in the first day or two at Strasbourg should have been disputes within the British delegation, transferring to an international stage that......

The Outlook For Bonn

LL things considered, there is not much to regret in the A result of the West German elections. And there is at least one ground for considerable satisfaction—the number of......

Everyone Who Knows Anything About Hymns Knows Something...

the Apostate, but the author of the classical Dictionary of Hymnology. That notable work, which stands alone in its own field, was first published nearly sixty years ago—in......

On Page 28 Of Christopher Hollis's Book, Can Parliament...

?, published this week, there is an astonishing footnote, Mentioning that " in 1802 every hereditary monarch in Europe was, as Bagehot reminds us',1nsane." I have no doubt that......

A Gentleman, Unknown To Me, In South Amerita Writes...

tively of my "healthy criticism" 'of The Naked and the Dead. Where can he get hold of a copy ? Could I send him one ? I could, but—. ' * * •* *......

It Is A Little Ironical That The Government, Having' Created

an acute shortage of hotel accommodation by requisitioning hotels right and left, should have had to improvise a hotel of its own at short notice for the benefit of national......

This, As We Are Made All Too Conscious By The

daily papers, is the season of Alpine tragedies. That particular noun is inevitable, for what could be more tragic than the premature and sudden death of young men, as almost......