23 JANUARY 1942, page 4

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HE members of the House of Commons who reacted so vehemently against the idea that the Prime Minister's coming statement on the progress of the war should be broadcast have......

The Resignation Of The Archbishop Of Canterbury Has, Of...

been expected for some years, though there were those who believed that in view of the maintenance of his physical vigour Dr. Lang might remain at Lambeth (I am not sure whether......

A Paragraph In Viscount Samuel's Article On The Atlantic...

in the current Contemporary states so crisply succinctly an often-ignored political truth that I quote for the benefit of any who may care to lay it up in their minds: " Sonic......

I Am Glad To See The Headmaster Of Rugby's Eminently

sane comment on Captain Harold Balfour's dictum that " constant ruthlessness is the quality we must adopt," and that when it is a question of "how to deal with the Hun after the......

I Believe That In B.b.c. .circles Sir Max Beerbohm's Broa

cast on Sunday night, on memories of the Victorian music-hall, regarded as the very pattern and model of how such things should be done. The matter was altogether admirable, but......

The Supply Muddle

MONG the wider problems of the war which Mr. Churchill will doubtless discuss when he makes his state- nt to Parliament, there is one that has long been staring in the face, but......

" I Must Make Way For He Who Must Make

NEW WORLD." This grammatical outrage is most libellously attributed to the Archbishop of Canterbury by the Evening Standard. Th S.P.C.E. has the matter in hand. Jews.......

The Prime Minister's Odyssey "a Conference Is Now Being Held

in Cairo with Churchill in the chair." (Transocean News Service (Berlin), 22.12.41.) " Winston Churchill left the American continent on Sunday night aboard a heavy British......