21 NOVEMBER 1952, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

S UCH reviews of Mr. G. M. Young's Baldwin as I have read—and I have read a good many— have been more discussions of the man than comments on the book. On the Whole they have, I......

The Only Fault About The Reception Given To Sir Evelyn

Wrench last Friday in celebration of his birthday was the crowded state of the House of Commons dining-room, where the function was held. But that was in fact a merit, since it......

I Know Very Well Who Lady Megan Lloyd-george Is. I

did not at all know who Mr. Edward Martell was till I read some particulars about him at the head of an attack by him on Lady Megan—a column and a half of it—in the extremely......

The Bishop Of Monmouth Should Have Stirred Up The Ecclesia-

stical historians by his defiant declaiation that the Church of England is not Protestant. Strictly speaking he may be right, though that seems a little doubtful, but in any......

The Transport Test

I F there i's one great danger in British politics that is uni- versally and publicly recognised at this moment it is the possibility that the parties may spend valuable time......

It Is Not Often That A Lecturer On Racial Relations

enlivens his discourse with as brilliant a jeu d'esprit as the translation into rhyming Latin of the " young lady of Riga " Limerick which Professor T. J. Haarhoff introduced......

Anyone Who Failed To. Listen To The Three Octogenarians (and

One, Walter de la Mare, who is only 79) giving their views on life in the Home Service on Wednesday evening, missed a good deal. Each had a distinctive contribution to make.......