22 OCTOBER 1937, page 6

The Price Of Food

T HE successful Labour candidate at North Islington last week attributed his election to working-class resentment at the rising cost of living and especially at the rising price......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE damages for libel awarded to Lord Camrose and the Daily Telegraph—£12,500 and £7,5oo respectively— against the Fascist paper Action are heavy, and the amount of damages in......

The Different Daily Papers In Their Endeavours To Find...

explanations for the slump on Wall Street on Tuesday, seem, oddly enough, hardly to mention one factor which, to judge from what I hear privately, played a considerable part. A......

Signor Mussolini Is In An Increasingly Difficult...

London papers are doing what they can to help him. Take, for instance, headings like the following, from last Saturday's Daily Herald : MR. EDEN RUNS AWAY : DUCE LEFT A FREE......

The Announcement That A Ticket-office Common To All The Four

great railways has just been opened near Paddington seems curiously belated. For years past there have been " consolidated ticket offices" in different parts of New York and......

The Duke Of Windsor Has Not Lived Up To The

character I gave him last week. I said quite accurately then that during his visit to Germany he had (except in response to a young gentleman of three) rather studiously avoided......

I Referred A Few Weeks Ago To The New Edition

of the Bible, printed as ordinary literature, with verse and chapter divisions omitted, and the archaic spelling of the translators of 1611 brought up to date when necessary.......

I Do Not Invariably Write With Enthusiasm Of The Daily

Express and its views, but this editorial paragraph from its issue of Wednesday seems worth quotation : " Mussolini has not paid for Abyssinia yet, orders a 10 per cent. capital......