20 SEPTEMBER 1946, page 4

That Stand-by Of The Free Church World, The British Weekly,

has new proprietors and, what is more important, will shortly have a new editor, Dr. J. A. Hutton having retired after 21 years through age and ill-health. The paper's history......

Mr. Harold Macmillan's Persistence In His Crusade For A New

party of progressive democrats (I hope that describes it adequately) is making rather heavy weather, though there is clearly something to be said for it. But was it accident or......

A Spectator's Notebook

T O lecture to the German prisoners taking the educational course at the Training Centre at Wilton Park is an exhilarating ex- perience, as readers of the admirable article......

The Romanticism Of The Attorney-general's Recent...

and conduct of the Press aroused general and searching comment. But what is to be said of the speech he made on housing at St. Helen's last Friday? He was drawing the usual......

What Size Newspapers Do We Want? The Question Is Raised

very pertinently in a booklet on the newsprint question by Sir Walter Layton, who, as Chairman of the News Chronicle, and at the same time Chairman of the Rationing Committee of......

Sir James Jeans Will Be Mourned By A Much Larger

public than most scientists of equal eminence, for he set himself resolutely the task of making science intelligible to the ordinary man. And in a very large measure he......

Implications Of Squatting

T is no longer necessary to commend the squatters on the I ground that they assert the fundamental independence of free Englishmen. That idea occurred to most observers when the......

Mr. Henry Wallace Was Once Described By A...

justly or not, as " the soft under-belly of the New Deal. There are those who today would allot to him that role in relation to the Truman administration—though some Americans......

Those Who Recognise With Some Anxiety The Complete...

of Mr. Bevin at the Foreign Office will be glad to know that no cause remains for the concern his recent illness occasioned. In spite of his labours at Paris, the other labours......