24 DECEMBER 1937, page 6

Mr. Bingham's Death Is Very Sad. American Ambassadors In...

from James Russell Lowell onwards—indeed from John Adams onwards—have generally been men of marked culture and personality. Mr. Bingham was in addition a man of marked charm. He......

The Appointment Of Mr. A. E. Barker To Take Charge

of the B.B.C.'s new foreign broadcasts is very reassuring. Of the importance of the new departure, whose chief- purpose is to provide some offset to the propaganda, mostly anti-......

I Cannot Quite Abandon The Question Of I T O'clock

matins as I had intended, for I owe an answer to a courteous letter from a clergyman who prefers the Choral Eucharist at and asks " why the wayfaring man, if he be a Christian,......

Last Week's Reception To Lord Cecil To Celebrate The Award

to him of the Nobel Peace Prize would have gone off better if the speeches had been fewer and briefer, but it was a great success none the less. Two observations of Lord Cecil's......

A Couple Of Lines Here And There Have Sufficed To

chronicle the arrival at Lisbon of Sir Walford Selby, the new British Ambassador to Portugal. But the event may prove important. The new Ambassador has for the last four years......

A Spectator's Notebook

G ENERAL LUDENDORFF ceased to be a figure of consequence nineteen years ago, for it would be a poor service to his memory to dwell on the vagaries of his post-War career, which......

Germany's False Prophets

THE last month has seen. the foundation of a new -1.I- Church in Germany ; and while in other countries Christians will celebrate Christmas in accordance with the ancient......