24 NOVEMBER 1944, page 4

Today's Query. In The Fragment , Of Autobiography By Sir...

Quiller Couch which the Cambridge University Press is publishing this week, Q mentions that, visiting London as a boy, he and his father " put up at Anderton's Hotel in Fleet......

I Knew Sir Arthur Eddington First As A Shy Undergraduate

of my own year, and shy he remained to the end. Never was there a more unassuming man, though, with an O.M. at the unprecedentedly early age of 55, he certainly took rank as one......

The Government Changes Announced On Wednesday Are Calcu-...

elicit acquiescence rather than enthusiasm. With all respect to Sir Edward Grigg, who is to replace Lord Moyne in Cairo, and Captain Harold Balfour, who is to replace Lord......

I Am' Reminded—for 'i Did Know But Forgot—that To Be

in the running for the Fathership of the House of Commons your sitting record from the date of first election must be Continuous. That removes Mr. George Lambert (who, though he......

" For Every Little Liberal That's Born Into This World

alive Is either a little National Or a little bee from the Sinclair hive." That is what (or perhaps something even better) Sir W. S. Gilbert would have had to write today. But......

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Quaker relief work in France in war-time dates back to the Franco- Prussian War ; it was actively carried on in the last war, and nothing could be more fitting than that......

A Spectator's Notebook

A s to Malta. I consented, it will be remembered, to try to extract £2,000 from the readers of this page for the erection of a Shrine of Remembrance in the damaged Anglican......

The Death Of M. Joseph Caillaux Was Announced In Wednesday's

papers. By an odd coincidence I was on Tuesday evening reading the typescript of a lengthy interview with M. Caillaux prepared for publication in a London paper in, I think,......

New Thought On War Aims

F any doubt subsisted in any mind as to whether the opera- ]. tions now in progress in the west were the beginning of the great offensive, General Eisenhower's declarations on......