1 AUGUST 1952, page 5

I See That Some Impulse Is To Be Given To

the production of that revolting commodity, the prune (possessed, it is said, of certain medicinal qualities in keeping with its general character), in this country. It will......

Studying, With The Care It Deserved, Viscount Simon's...

a proposal of Lord Jowitf s in the debate on the Defamation Bill in the House of Lords on Monday, I lighted on a passage in which Lord Simon illustrated a contention by a......

After Farouk

• E XCEPT that Capri is more genial as an ultimate resting- place than a dungeon in Pomfret Castle, there is much in common between the decline and fall of King Farouk and of......

A Spectator's Notebook

AC CORDING to Carlyle this country in his day was inhabited by twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. The Editor of the Daily Express evidently holds a similar opinion of his own......

In Considering That Full Weight Must Be Given, Much More

weight than has in most quarters been given, to the well known devotion of the Express to veracity. It is well-known because both its " Controlling Shareholder," Lord......

The French Ambassador Did Well To Give A Farewell Party

on Wednesday in honour of M. Michel St. Denis, who is leav- ing London after many valuable and active years in this country. M. St. Denis, under the pseudonym of Jacques......

Sir Alexander Cadogan Must Be Counted One Of The Favourites

of fortune. To get a Suez Canal Directorship, an O.M. and the Chairmanship of the B.B.C. Governors, all within the space of a single year or not much more is something that......

Cricket, Fortunately, Has No Concern With Politics, But...

has an oblique bearing on them. And there is just a touch of political—and more than a touch of psychological—. importance in the announcement that Pakistan was on Monday......