22 FEBRUARY 1952, page 5

The Chances Of Lisbon T He North Atlantic Treaty •...

meeting at Lisbon has opened in an atmosphere of tempered optimism. Even when the qualifying adjective is emphasised, as it must be, that is better than could have been hoped......

The Daily Papers Are Supposed To Be Well Informed About

everything, and in the main they are, but I wonder whether even yet they fully realise the depth and extent of the anger the publication of some of the pictures of royal grief......

The Times And The Mining Companies Which Inserted An The

general comment on the result of the case against advertisement in its pages last October, suggesting that the pending General Election would provide an opportunity of saving......

The King's Death Has Ended Finally, Or So It May

be hoped, the cont.toversy about his intended stay at the South African Prime Minister's official residence. What criticism there was had not indeed as its object Dr. Malan, at......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I T would, as things have turned out, have simplified life if twenty-five years ago the Duke and Duchess of York had decided to call their first daughter Margaret, and their......

The Court Circular Having Stated Correctly And Accurately...

that the Queen had that day received Dr. Adenauer, the German Chancellor, is it too much to hope that the B.B.C. News Department will now drop its persistent, incomprehen- sible......

Millions Who Listened To The Funeral Service In St. George's

Chapel at Windsor must have marvelled at the smoothness and order with which the whole proceedings went. In fact, I gather there was more than met the eye, or ear. I have......

Something Was Said In Another Part Of The Spectator Last

week, on the strength of the Bowater results, of the spectacular profits paper-makers have achieved in the past year. Since then several other results have been published, and......