So Much Attention Has Been Concentrated On The Budget In
the past week that the new burden telephone subscribers are to have laid on them has gone almost unnoticed. Take the London area. After July 1st private subscribers are to pay a......
On The Whole The Natural Adjective To Apply To Lord
Lindsay of Birker is unorthodox. Not every don at Oxford and Cam- bridge is orthodox; far from it; but Heads of Houses usually are. Lord Lindsay decidedly was not. Nor was his......
I Wonder Whether He Pinpricks We Think It Necessary To
inflict on Soviet diplomatists in London in retaliation for the pinpricks the Soviet Government inflicts on our diplomatists in Moscow really do us great credit. To show that......
What Does Russia Mean ?
T HE chief difficulty in dealing with Russia is the impos- sibility of knowing whether any proposal emanating from Moscow is seriously meant, or represents no more than an......
A Spectator's Notebook
I HAVE rarely heard anything more brilliant of its kind than the Daniel Stevenson Lecture which Dr. J. B. Conant, the President of Harvard, delivered in London on Monday. The......
It Is Hardly Surprising That The Chancellor Of The Exchequer
referred to the News Chronicle Gallup poll in his winding-up speech on Monday, for the results of the enquiry into the com- mon man's reaction to the Budget are striking. Of......
Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, Who Spoke For The Government Before...
Butler in the same debate, made what is, superficially at any rate, a good point, in mentioning that the taxes paid on tobacco and intoxicants—the taxes alone—amounted to £986......
On Monday The Times And Every Other Paper I Saw
quoted Dr. Adenauer's views on the recent Soviet Note on a treaty with Germany. On the same day the B.B.C. News Bulletin spoke, according to its invariable habit, of Herr......
A Photograph Of A Model May Be Misleading, But To
all appearance the Central Colleges at Leeds are to be housed in a building looking like nothing as much as an up-to-date textile factory. It may be that the building will be......
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