23 JULY 1937, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

H AD the Government not announced their decision to adopt the Palestine Commission's recommendations we may be sure that they would have been everywhere rejected as unjust and......

There Is A Growing Feeling Among Surgeons And Doctors That

the Workmen's Compensation Acts need radical reform. The liability of the employer, against which he is almost invariably insured, is to pay compensation according to a......

Last Saturday Night I Watched In A Clear Sky The

occultation of Mars by the moon, an occurrence rare enough to be notable. Just before Christmas, 1934, I was fortunate enough to see Venus, almost at its brightest, and Saturn,......

The Influx Of Able-bodied Irish Men And Women Con- Tinues.

From 1926 to 193o the recorded net inward balance from the Irish Free State was 69,000 ; from 1931 to 1935, 5o,000. The actual figures are probably higher ; for 1936 it was......

I Met A Boy This Week Collecting A Particular Fungus

which grows on elm trees—none other, he said, suited his purpose, which was to smoke out wasps. It burned like tinder when dry ; a burning lump placed at the entrance dispersed......

The Temple Of Art

IT is natural that Herr Hitler should have views on art ; for he was once a house-painter, though according to Cardinal Mundelein a bad one, and the Pope also apparently agrees......