22 JULY 1949, page 5

" The Aim Of He And His Colleagues. . ."

wrote The Times in its Parliamentary report on Tuesday. The earth tremors reported by seismologists that day were caused by Barnes and Delane and several Walters turning in......

We Are Getting Accustomed To The Trading Losses Which...

ment departments are constrained, under pressure, to admit, but to be told that the Ministry of Food has dropped £650,000 on this year's new potato crop, "on potatoes which......

Cross Or Sickle?

T HE war of sickle and cross is fully joined throughout Eastern Europe, and there can be no question from which quarter the aggression comes. The example of Russia is being......

A Fortnight Or So Ago An M.p. Said To The

Chancellor of the Exchequer in the lobby " I hope you are going to be able to stand all this physically." "Oh, I hope so," Sir Stafford replied with a laugh which suggested that......

Some Fifteen Years Ago—round About 1934—a Man Was Waiting...

a bus in Piccadilly outside one of those shops which sold suits for next to nothing. The papers were full just then of photographs of eminent people wearing such suits and......

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What may perhaps be termed without disrespect the outlying members of the Royal Family are not quite as well known to the general public as some of them deserve to be. Take, for......

A Spectator 's Notebook

F ROM one point of view it is as well that the trial of John George Haigh only lasted two days, for the inroads reports of • the trial made on the popular newspapers' limited......