22 APRIL 1955, page 8

Mr. T. S. Eliot Has Been Busy On The Platform

lately. Last week he gave the London Authors' Club his views on criticism; this week he has given the London Conservative Union some hints on conservatism. Politicians. Mr.......

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A Spectator's Notebook

SO FAR as 1 could see there was towards the end an almost complete lack of concern about the absence of newspapers, apart from the irritation caused by having to get really......

I Feel Sure That Readers Of These Notes Will Be

interested to know that Wilson Harris, who, as Janus, wrote them for so long, left, in a will published during the newspaper strike. £36,902. In the same connection, I note with......

In Last Week's New Statesman Critic Announced That,...

fro►n Essex to Sussex, he would be having no more conversation with his gardener, Mr. Park. 1 Alas, what boots it though on even Wing The migrant Martins glory in the Spring! No......

The Lesson Which Mr. Butler Read Last Year On The

Sunday before his Budget contained the words 'Be free from the love of money and be content with such things as ye have,' which were certainly a suitable precursor of a Budget......

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By The Secretary-general Of The United Nations, Mr. Dag...

the other day during a televised Press confer- ence in New York. Replying to a question about the American airmen imprisoned in China, he said : 'Contacts are continuing. . . .......