1 JULY 1949, page 9

The Minister Of Health Is An Ill-starred Man. Fate Has

ordained that he shall never mount a public platform without doing himself moral and material damage before he gets off it. Take his observa- tion last Saturday about Lord......

A Sound Comment On My Observations Last Week On The

sweet shortage reaches me from a source that commands respect: " If only the smokers would stop eating sweets and the sweet-lovers would stop smoking, I imagine we might all be......

On A Case Which, Having Worked Its Way From A

Judge in Chambers to the Court of Appeal, may yet move on to the House of Lords • anything like extensive comment would be improper. But the issues raised in the case Krajina v.......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HERE is a good deal moving or pending in the newspaper world, apart from the issue of the report of the Royal Commission on the Press. The report itself, indeed, is the......

Verdict On The Press

S PEAKING in Oklahoma on Tuesday the Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, told his American audience that " we in Britain have an active and vigorous Press, which cannot be......

When The Restoration Of The Well-known Milton Window At St.

Margaret's, Westminster, is celebrated on Monday (at 6 p.m., in case any reader of this column thinks of going) one of the anthems to be rendered will be Parry's "Blest Pair of......