20 JULY 1945, page 4

A Postscript To What I Wrote Last Week About Sir

William Malkin. While he lived normally at Gerrard's Cross, he had inherited a family estate in the wilds of Inverness-shire. It had been in his family since 1845, just a......

Figures Given Last Week To Indicate The Part Played By

the Hurri- cane in the Battle of Britain show that more than half the Ger- man machines destroyed in that epic struggle were ' the victims of Hurricanes, which therefore......

A Paragraph Here Last Week On The Subject Of Watch

scarcity has elicited some interesting information. The Board of Trade, it appears, is already doing exactly what I appealed to it to do— issuing licences for the importation of......

A Great Many People Disliked The Idea Of...

hope they like the idea of fraternisation better now that they have had the opportunity of gaping at pictures of close-packed boat- loads of British soldiers and German girls in......

Oxford Is A Place Of Some Little Wit, As Well

as some little learning. Mr. Quintin Hogg, as is well known, is Conservative candidate for Oxford City. Outside the Oxford railway station there is, or till very lately was, a......

Journalists Are Not Given To Bringing Libel Actions...

another, which on the whole is just as well. The Li,000 awarded to Mr. F. A. Voigt of the Nineteenth Century and his associates against Mr. Cedric Belfrage of the News Chronicle......

Not All Of Us Had Remembered That Though Magna Carta

was signed at Runnymede in 1215, the Great Charter which has legal validity today dates from ten years later, and bears the signature not of King John but of King Henry III.......

A Spectator's Notebook

W HATEVER the nature of Lord Justice Goddard's report on the hushed-up trial of a Roman Catholic priest at Longton, in Staffordshire, the evidence given at the inquiry conducted......

- Three Men's Task

M EVER in the history of human conference has so much been j' determined for so many by so few. That adaptation of the Prime Minister's historic epigram may well prove in......