1 JANUARY 1937, page 24

Candour And The B.b.c.

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir Josiah Stamp, in proposing the health of the 11.11.C. at a luncheon, is reported to have said, before uttering some emollient and......

General Knowledge

[This contribution has been awarded the prize of 12 2s. offered for the best set of answers, in not more than 50 lines of rhymed verse, to the contribution under the same......

The Protestant Pope [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sin,—The quotation which Mr. Rowse gives from Herr Zweig's new book on Calvin hardly justifies his commendation of the writer's work. The greatness and the influence of Calvin......

The Minister Of Labour [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

SIR,—Your Parliamentary Correspondent's animadversions on the present holder of this most thankless and onerous office seem to me rather lacking in his usual sense of fairness.......