19 JUNE 1947, page 5

Tile Dignified And Distressing Letter From Mr. J. R. Clynes

in Tuesday's Times has evoked universal sympathy, some of it taking very practical form, but it is well to be a little slow in drawing a general moral from it. Mr. Clynes, one......

A Curious Little Story, Casting An Instructive Light On...

diplomatic methods, is told by the United Nations correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. At a very interesting fortnight's dis- cussion by a certain sub-commission on the......

Following On What I Wrote Last Week Regarding Verdicts In

suicide cases, one comment has reached me which I think is apposite. There is (it is suggested) a clear distinction to be drawn between " Suicide while of unsound mind," which......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HERE was a certain breathlessness about the dinner Lord Beaverbrook gave to the American editors on Wednesday evening. The visitors, on the first lap of their......

The Fate Of Country-houses In These Times Is Varied And

interesting. It is illustrated by the fortunes that have recently befallen three of them within a radius of half-a-dozen miles in Surrey. Wotton House, the historic home of John......

Europe's Reply

I F the American Secretary of State's Harvard speech brought new hope to a Europe struggling with deprivation and poten- tial collapse, the swiftness of the response made by Mr.......