20 AUGUST 1948, page 5

A Spectator 's Notebook N Ews Of An International...

which Russia is co- operating with some cordiality is particularly welcome. And that is happening, I am told, in the case of the World Health Organisation —a subsidiary of the......

The Road To Bedlam, Of Course, Is Paved With False

predictions, but some of them have their interest none the less. Rummaging through some old Tauchnitzes in a Swiss hotel I picked up and re- read Mark Twain's Christian Science.......

I Shall Be Interested To See What The Observer Has

to say about Ireland next Sunday. Its last Sunday's issue was almost sensa- tional, with its headings "UNITED IRELAND TALK TOMORROW BRINGING EIRE INTO WESTERN UNION" and its......

To Call Spmething Unthinkable, When The Very Fact Of Saying

so in- dicates thought about it, is one of the more foolish of literary lapses. I therefore refrain from describing the proposed demolition of Moor Park in Surrey as......

A Wide Circle Of Friends Will Be Saddened By Lord

Harmsworth's death. Cecil Harmsworth was a very different type from his brother Alfred ; recognising that to the full himself, he always spoke of Northcliffe with a kind of......

The Fruits Of Lambeth

T HE Lambeth Conference Encyclical is, as it should be, a document of enduring value. Only mature study will deter- mine whether it is the most important of the pronouncements......

Inspired By The Reading Of Dr. Iremonger's William Temple, I

have moved back chronologically, with great profit and satisfaction, to the Bishop of Chichester's Randall Davidson. Temple and Davidson were totally different, and not least......