22 AUGUST 1947, page 4

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I know no more than anyone else why the meeting of Ministers at Downing Street on Sunday was called, but it quite certainly was not for the reasons set out in the flagrantly......

A Spectator's Notebook

R ATHER paradoxically the warnings of still harder times to come, and various other depressing news in Thursday's papers, had on me, and no doubt on most other people, a quite......

Senator Styles Bridges Is Chairman Of The Senate...

in the United States and as such deals with all financial proposals. When he went to his local New Hampshire railway station recently to buy a ticket for Washington the......

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Having been unimpressed by Mr. Attlee's broadcast I expected to be, but was not, much more impressed by Mr. Churchill's. There is one salient difference between the Premier and......

Mr. Neville Cardus, Equally Well-known As A Critic Of Music

and a critic of cricket (say that quickly six times), is just publishing a singularly interesting autobiography. As the book has not yet appeared I can say nothing about what is......

Crisis And Action F Or Seven Weeks Any Country Having...

earnings of sterling has been able to convert those earnings into dollars at British expense. The devices resorted to in order to carry out this transaction have been so many......

* * * * But On One Point Mr. Churchill

was undoubtedly right—in appealing to the ablest and most enterprising of British workers not to desert the ship by emigrating just at the moment when maximum output is needed......