23 NOVEMBER 1945, page 4

The British Council, Like The King George's Trust, Is Just

ten years old. Its past is on record, but its future is obscure. The Government is at present considering the whole question of British publicity abroad, and the fate of the......

A Spectator 's Notebook

M Y note of last week on the singular failure to appoint leading educationalists and scientists to the British delegation to the recent conference of the United Nations......

Advertisements Of A Volume Entitled The Royal Family In...

left me cold and a little antagonistic ; this kind of thing—cheap and a little toadying—is so familiar. Which shows once more the folly of leaping to conclusions, for the book,......

Missing Word Competition. " If Every Tutor In This...

were asked what public school he would most —." readily see abolished the unanimous answer would be Nothing on earth will induce me to supply the missing word either publicly or......

The Belsen Executions Will No Doubt Take Place In Due

course, but they present a problem on which it would hardly be seemly to touch more than lightly. The condemned men are to be hanged, not shot, and hanging is not a soldier's......

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Some information given by the Minister of Labour on Tuesday puts in their right proportions some of the Government's predic- tions about demobilisation. On July 28th great......

It Is Well Known, Of Course, That If You Want

to fmd, say, a Balliol man in the House of Commons it is quicker to look for one on the Government side than the Opposition's. But the interest of Labour Members in the latest......

The Government And Freedom

S TATEMENTS and discussions in Parliament this week have emphasised with the force of a three-line whip the need for increasing vigilance on the part, not merely of His......