22 NOVEMBER 1946, page 5

Lady Violet Bonham-carter's Letter In Tuesday's Times On...

L. Gandar Dower's seat at Caithness and Sutherland will, I should imagine, take a lot of answering. Mr. Gandar Dower stood as a Conservative against a Liberal (Sir Archibald......

If The German Invasion Of Britain In September, 1940, The

plans for which were disclosed by Mr. Attlee on Monday, had gone through it would have come up against something stiff. The in- vaders would, it appears, have swept northwards......

These Are Days When The Committee Called On To Award

the Nobel Prize for Peace might well feel hard put to it, and the decision just taken is in some ways surprising. I have in the past known both Dr. J. R. Mott and Miss Emily......

The Government And The Children

T HE attitude of the Government towards the Curtis Report on the Care of Children, as declared by Mr. Arthur Green- wood in the House of Commons on Tuesday night, is most pro-......

The Short Two-clause Bill To Terminate The Annual Payment Of

£5,000 to the indirect descendants of Lord Nelson will get its second reading within the next day or two, and an interesting little debate may result, for an Opposition Front......

It Is Not Often That I Have Occasion To Quote

from The Daily Worker, but that paper's Parliamentary Correspondent gives so instructive an annotated picture of the Government's attitude on the Curtis Report as to deserve......

A Spectator's Notebook

M OST people have a shilling to spare, and everyone who has ought to spend it at the earliest possible moment on a copy of the Penguin Hiroshima, by John Hersey. This is a......

The Appeal For Subscriptions To Defray The Cost Of A

statue of President Roosevelt in Grosvenor Square is certain of a swift response. But I hope still that Sir William Reid Dick's design for the statue will be reconsidered. He......