1 JUNE 1934, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

Y OU may agree with Mr. Lloyd George or disagree with him, but it is very difficult not to be interested in what he says. A sentence or two that he used last Monday suggests a......

* * * * The Wholesale Slaughter Of The Pick

of British tennis- players at Paris this week is a pertinent sequel to the Oxford and Cambridge match three or four days earlier. For there is one feature of the Varsity contest......

There Are Always Some Parliamentary Seats So Over-...

that Labour and Liberal candi- dates hardly ever contest *them, and some so wedded to Labour that Conservatives rarely take the trouble to fight. But for the National Government......

Lord Rothermere Has, I Observe, Joined Lord Beaver- Brook In

attacks on the Co-operative Movement—in the interests, of course, of the private trader.. I shall be a good deal more impressed with the sincerity of this campaign when I sec it......

The Prime Minister's Answers In The House Of Commons Are

not as a rule models of lucidity, but a statement he made on Tuesday calls for something more than passing notice. The subject was the proposed embargo on arms exports to......

I Doubt If There Is Any Other Pair Of Figures

in con- temporary literature who are so constantly bracketed together in the thoughts of readers as Mr. G. K. Chesterton and Mr. Hilaire Belloc. They are, of course, intimate......

Lord Sumner Was A Great Lawyer, And It Is Unfortunate

from some points of view that he was ever dragged into the reparations controversy. He went to the Peace Conference with Lord Cunliffe, then Governor of the Bank of England, as......