Among The Famous Fountains Of The World The Buxton Memorial
Drinking Fountain in Parliament Square would not till last week have ranked high. Many millions of people in these islands, even some millions in London itself, had never heard......
The Spirit Of Christmas
B ROADCASTING on the Week in Westminster last Saturday Brigadier Prior Palmer observed that he could have wished the House of Commons, with Christmas so near at hand, had ended......
No One Will Take Much Satisfaction In The Verdict In
the von Manstein case and the sentence of eighteen years—on a man of 62 that followed it. The whole trial was plainly a mistake. Of course a logical case can be made for it, but......
Endeavouring As I Am To Cultivate The Spirit Of Christian
charity, I shall leave the Observer's continued and astonishing manipulation of financial statistics without further comment. The Manchester Guardian, moreover, dealt with the......
What Is Going On In Walbrook, Between The Mansion House
and Cannon Street station, must be heartbreaking for archaeologists. The clearing of a bombed site preparatory to the erection of a block of office buildings is bringing to......
A Spectator's Notebook
M STALIN is seventy this week. It is an interesting milestone in the Russian Dictator's career, and a good . deal has been written about it in the English Press already. But no......
The Agitation Of A Ministry Of Food Official Over The
lacteal element in the famous Bristol Milk sherry recalls the case of a rigidly teetotal visitor to a Cambridge college who was asked if he would take milk punch. That was......
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