1 APRIL 1949, page 5

Though The Backers Of The Bill For The Abolition Of

the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of plays, or indeed any censorship of plays, got their measure by an unexpectedly large majority it is not very likely to find its way into......

A Few Weeks Ago A Publication Called Review Of World

Affairs, edited by a gentleman named Kenneth de Courcy, contained some passages which whoever wrote them must, I should imagine, have lived to regret. The subject was the King's......

As News Value The Boat Race Is A Rapidly Wasting

asset. So far as the popular papers are concerned it is worth next to nothing by Monday morning. To the Daily Express, indeed, the greatest race for two generations was worth,......

A Conversation Between Two M.p.'s And A Minister Who Knows

working-class conditions better than most people, on how far the average working man reads books and possesses books (a subject worth pursuing here or somewhere else some day),......

A Spectator 's Notebook

O NLY a handful of the oldest Members of the House of Commons remember Mr. Speaker Lowther, and as Mr. Speaker Lowther, rather than as Lord Ullswater, they will still remember......

The Commonwealth And India

T . HE Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers is to meet, as the Prime Minister announced on Tuesday, on April 21st. It will sit, naturally, in private and the sessions will......

Headings Continue To Come Dropping In. The Prize This Week

goes undoubtedly to the New York Daily News on the House of Lords debate on artificial insemination: " BRITISH LORDS LASH LAB LOVE." JANUS.......