19 JULY 1935, page 6

Italy's Failure' To State Her Ease Regarding Abyssinia...

provided universal comment:: In the past week I have had the advantage of hearing the Case stated privately by a fully competent . exponent. I fully understand riowi Signor......

Spithead And The Peace Ballot

N EVER at any time since the War have there been such impressive displays of Britain's armed forces as during the last fortnight. In succession the King ' has reviewed powerful......

English Public Life Is Singularly Free From Jobbery, And The

readiness of the average man to resent the smallest sespicion of it is striking. The average man, so far . as I have come across him, refuses resolutely to reconcile hirnself to......

The Indispensable Press - !` You Remember, Perhaps The Lost,

luggage that was prayed for on Sunday morning. Its owner, a minister, stopped me in the street to Jet me know that it had been returned to him. Its recovery was due to the......

The Death Of Colonel Alfred Dreyfus Can Mean Little To

anyone born within the last thirty years—though readers of Anatole France's L'Ile des Pingouins must find the political allusions with which the satire, teems very largely......

" On Came The . King's Yacht, With The Welcome - Signal,

Splice the main-brace,' , flying from her halliards." Why " splice the main-brace " ? , The order means; of Course, serve out a double allowance of rum---dr It conies down from.......

, Mr. Rudyard Kipling's Poem . On The King With His

fleet is announced as appearing thirty-eight years to the , day after "The Recessional.'" It is hardly a charity to invite the coniparison, for the two poems are, frankly,......

There Was An Old Link Between Two Public Men _whose

deaths have been lately recorded, Lewd. Fitzmanrice and LordDalziel, who died on Tuesday. In 1892 a vacancy occurred at , Kirkcaldy and Lord Edmond , Fitzmaurice was about to be......

A Spectator's Notebook

IIE holding of a plebiscite on the question of monarchy in Greece can now be taken for granted, but it does not follow that if the monarchists win the day their choice will......