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"in Parliamentary Debates," She Wrote, "a Good Many Other

Government supporters' have said as much, and after delivering their consciences by one bold speech have been driven like sheep into the Government lobby or slipped silently......

Am I Attributing False Motives To The Incorruptible...

She has no false motives. Yet I hand to her, as a gesture of conciliation, a further quotation. " Be bolde," wrote Longfellow: "Be bolde, be bolde and everywhere be bolde Be not......

For Miss Rathbone Is Something More Than A Most Inde-

pendent Member for the Combined English Universities; she is more than a contemporary political figure; she is a character out of the Faetie Oueene; she is the Britortart of......

Speaking Generally, It Is Understandable That Those Who...

a foreign policy which is more in accordance with the conscience, the vigour, and the traditions of our race; that those of us who feel that our present defence programme is not......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON I N last week's issue of The Spectator appeared a letter from Miss Eleanor Rathbone on the subject of Mr. Duncan Sandys' first hundred thousand. It was a......

Into A By-election A Few Months Before A General Election.

Such hesitation does not prove him to be either dishonest or cowardly. It is understandable that a supporter of National Government may disagree with certain aspects of the......

I Am Reminded, In This Connexion, Of A Story Which

was told by Dwight Morrow—who was in truth a great European, while remaining a great American. It was during the War. He had some business with Sir Joseph Macleay, at that date......