23 FEBRUARY 1924, page 11

Admirers Of Lord Balfour Throughout The Empire And In The

United States will join with his friends at home in congratulating him on the celebration of his jubilee at Westminster. It was in February, 1874, that the young Conservative,......

A Paragraph In These Notes Some Weeks Since Has Prompted

a reader of the Spectator to send me the following recipe for- "making excellent coffee in three minutes " :— " Grind the beans in a coffee-mill and add a teaspoonful of......

Of A Thousand Warships And Auxiliaries Building At The End

of the War 611 were abandoned forthwith. The Washington Treaty named twenty-four British capital ships for " scrapping." The British Government did not wait for the formal......

The Theatre.

TWO PLAYS. " NOT IN OUR STARS " (WYNDHAM'S), AND A FIRST IMPRESSION OF " BACK TO METHU- SELAH " (COURT). Ix the theatre of to-day in London, and one suspects, also, in the......

But It Was Not Only Of Great Britain That Sacrifices

were demanded i and both the United States -and. Japan are carrying out their share of the agreement. The former power, which possessed a potential supremacy of the seas owing......

Many Of The .best Known Americans Come To This Country

unheralded and unsung and little is heard of them so far as the ordinary public is concerned. At present one of the best known journalists in the United States, in the person of......

Occasionally Statements Appear In The Press That The...

contemplates handing over the Island-of Jamaica to the United States in part payment of our debt. It is satisfactory, therefore, to note the Government's official denial through......

In These Democratic Days The Head Of An Administration Who

crosses the ocean to participate in far-off conferences is not an enviable one. We have, of course, the con- spicuous example of President Wilson's visit to Europe and his......