19 JULY 1946, page 4

A Spectator's Notebook

T N view of the stir caused by Mr. Morrison's completely uncalled- for for injection of the question of an inquiry on the state of the Press into a discussion on an inquiry on......

Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, Whose Death At Amherst,...

just announced, had a double literary personality. He was known first and foremost as an assiduous, enthusiastic and not completely discriminating biographer of Woodrow Wilson.......

Lord Templewood's Book On His Ambassadorship At Madrid,...

is published in ten days' time, will provide perhaps unexpected fuel for the fires the anti-Franco brigade in this country are trying to kindle. Lord Ternplewood as Ambassador......

The Loan And After

I F it were possible to be sickened with talk of such delectable possibilities as a tank full of petrol, a tobacconist's visible shelves crowded with cigarettes or a larder......

• * * * Some Scores Of M.p.s Who Gathered

at to, Downing Street on Wednesday at Mrs. Attlee's invitation to hear something of the work of the Y.W.C.A. came away considerably chastened after listening to two speeches......

Mr. Shinwell Can Only Look For Gratitude From Car-owners...

mensurate with the measure of his bounty. An increase of 5o per cent. on the basic ration was less than was commonly expected, or might reasonably have been hoped for. The other......

The Statement That The University Of Berlin Is Completely...

Russian control is highly unsatisfactory: Some time ago a question about the whereabouts of a most important and valuable collection of coins in the Kaiser Friedrichs Museum in......

I Always Read With A Little Sardonic Amusement, As I

have this week, the announcements inserted in The Times after a Royal Garden Party that Lord and Lady X, or Sir Pompey and Lady Y, or Mr. and Mrs. Climber, " were unavoidably......

" We Are Also Abolishing The Category Of Children Of

under one year." Mr. John Strachey in the House of Commons. Rather disturbingly......