24 JUNE 1949, page 16

Family Planning

Stn,—The Royal Commission on Population, in its recently published report, accepts the principle of voluntary parenthood as not only inevitable but desirable, since any return......

The Stars And Stripes In England

Snt,—In the Spectator of June 17th Mr. Henry J. Cadbury writes from Boston, Massachusetts, where, he informs us, the tradition prevails that the ' Bedford,' owned by the Quaker......

A German Youth Group Sin,—talking And Writing About The "

problem of German youth" continues, and it has become a commonplace that one of the major difficulties in the rebuilding of Western Europe lies in the Allies' approach to the......

The 'french Communists

SIR, —May I intrude , on your space once more, just to vindicate myse from the charge that I think myself " entitled to give suggestions to tt French Government " ? In my......

Far Eastern Policy

Sm,—Until I read the letter to the Spectator of Mr. Ashton Greene, of Princeton University, I had considered the principle of self-determination so firmly established in the......

Improving The Bible

SIR, —Some fifty-odd years ago, when I was the navigator of a sailing ship, my old• friend the boatswain had a Cromwellian aptitude for always finding a suitable quotation from......