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The Simplified Spelling Bill Jointly Sponsored By Mr....

and Mr. Mont Follick might be regarded simply as one of Mr. Follick's frolics—the Member for Loughborough is a most amiable man, but the House of Commons has never consented to......

The Tourist Allowance, I Observe, Has Been Raised From £500

to £750. Unfortunately it is the Australian allowance, not the British. The latter remains obstinately pegged at £25. While that annoys me a great deal it should give pleasure......

The Shah Has Very Rightly Hurried To The Scene Of

the Persian earthquake. He probably got there faster than the Indian District Commissioner who heard, while returning by sea from leave, of a serious disaster in the area for......

De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum, But The Bishop Of Birmingham,

in spite of his seventy-nine years and the ill-health which has caused him to resign his see, has, it may be hoped, many pros- perous years before him. But it would be......

A Spectator 9 S Notebook D R.- Reuter, The Burgomaster Of...

Berlin, made a great impression on the various audiences he has addressed in London in the past week. Standing in the very front of the firing-line in the cold war (if cold and......

East Of Suez

1 ? IHE Suez Canal is a vital link—it might better be said the vital link—between Europe and Asia for all but the lightest traffic. Aeroplanes can convey a human, but not much......

The Press Council Is Definitely To Come Into Being. I

have always thought such a body unnecessary, and I never liked the controversial spirit in which it was first proposed. But now that it is taking shape I wish it nothing but......

It Will Strike Everyone As Shocking That A Completely...

man should be imprisoned for three weeks and get no more compensation than £5 out of the poor-box. Whether there is a prospect of more compensation from some other source I......