24 JUNE 1949, page 5

The Appointment Of Mr. John Coatman, North Regional...

the B.B.C. and formerly Director of Public Information in India, to be Director of Research in the Social Sciences at St. Andrews University is of interest both in itself and......

With All The To And Fro Of Argument About The

de-rationing and possible re-rationing of sweets no one seems to know what the real explanation of this unlooked-for rapacity for sweets is. The increase of the ration from......

A Spectator 's Notebook

HEN the Dean of Winchester said in the Church Assembly on Monday that the overwhelming majority of Church- men were profoundly grateful to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York......

" A Plain And Sober Formula Enabled Sir Stamford Raffles

in 1819 to transform the desolate island of Singapore into a world market- place almost overnight. Some twenty years later at Hongkong, the formula worked no less magically. Its......

One Of The Most Agreeable Aspects Of The Visit Of

a Dominion cricket team to this country is the effect it has on Sir Stanley Holmes, National Liberal M.P. for Harwich. Sir Stanley ascribes his pas- sionate interest in cricket......

The Size Of The Family

V ALUABLE and comprehensive as the report of the Royal Commission on Population is, it is not very clear why it should have taken five years to produce it. The reason for the......