24 MARCH 1950, page 7

Mr. Aneurin Bevan Seems To Have Endeavoured To Talk Sense

to the Press about the Press last Tuesday, but at points the effort broke down. What, for example, is the point of asking, why should the public not know where the editor of a......

The Retirement Of Sir Alexander Cadogan From The Post Of

British member of the United Nations Security Council brings to an end a distinguished diplomatic career and a most notable record of public service. Quiet, firm, invariably......

There Is An Element Of Comedy In The Application Of

Col, Morris, the recently elected Labour M.P. for Sheffield Neepsend, for the Chiltern Hundreds, in order to provide a safe seat for the unseated Sir Frank Soskice. Questioned......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE exact date when the statue of Lord Oxford and Asquith will be placed in the Members' Lobby of the new House of Commons has not been fixed, but to know that it will at any......

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Does cup-tie fervour produce a form of hysteria - ? The question is worth considering seriously. Observe what took place in Liver- pool, last Sunday. Tickets were being issued......

A Return To Arms

T HERE has been no marked public reaction to the debates on defence which have occupied the House of Commons last week and this. No good reason for this appearance of......

Nothing Could Be More Galling For The British Motorist Than

to be told he can hope for no relaxation of the harsh restrictions imposed on him in the matter of petrol, while in every other European country petrol is completely unrationed,......