20 JANUARY 1950, page 5

* * * * The Discussion In The Times On

the publication of wills turns on nicely balanced considerations. It is arguable, as some writers have argued, that what a man (or woman) Jeaves is a purely private matter, and......

Marshal Stalin's Prediction Of The Result Of The General...

will be awaited with interest. In February, 1945, five months before the Election of July. the Marshal " remarked that he did not believe the Labour Party would ever form a......

The Box, Sealed For Forty Years, And Opened At Trinity

College, Cambridge, last Saturday, appears at first sight to have contained nothing of great interest ; but it at least (haws attention to the man who bequeathed the box, Mr. A.......

Labour's Claims

L ABOUR is first in the field with its election manifesto, whether with a winner or not the course of events will soon show. On the whole if the Labour Party is returned it is......

A Spectator's Notebook M Paul-henri Spaak Is A Vigorous...

of and advocate for the Council of Europe, and , when he comes to this country and urges, either at public meetings or in newspaper articles, that Britain should throw herself......

Mr. Neil Maclean's Grief At Being Excluded From The Meeting

that was called to nominate a Labour candidate in succession to him at Govan is intelligible, for he has represented the constituency since 1918, and does not, I think, consider......

More Latin.—"the Town Mouse Invited The Country Mouse."

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I Am Reminded That Charles Haddon Spurgeon, To Whom I

made some reference last week, was not Dr. That is true ; I followed a mention elsewhere unthinkingly. In compensation let me tell a story about two persons who were. One was an......

* * * * The Piddingtons' Act On Monday Must

go very far to discomfit their critics. If anything more watertight than the technique then adopted can be devised I should be very glad to hear of it. Mrs. Piddington was in a......