24 NOVEMBER 1950, page 7

"as Keen A Christian As Myself," Writes Sir Stafford Cripps

of the Socialist candidate in South-East Bristol. Is this form of political recommendation to become current coin ? If so, with honest gradations, I hope: "Certainly a......

There Is No Doubt That The Liberal Party, Which Cannot

afford to suffer at all, will suffer heavily in the country as the result of recent events in the House of Commons—particularly after Lady Violet Bonham Carter's trenchant......

My Observations On The Paddington Station Dining-room...

at 7 p.m., referring would-be diners to the Station Hotel as an alternative, brings me a letter from a baffled traveller who followed this advice, paid 7s. 6d. for the hotel......

Difficult As It No Doubt Is In The Present State

of the nation's finances to spend more money on the roads, it may be still more difficult not to spend it. It depends partly on what is considered to be the cash value of human......

A Spectator's Notebook , T He Spectator Goes Finally To...

on Thursday morn- ing. Organisers of by-elections and similar fixtures would therefore oblige by putting their climax not later than Tuesday. Handsworth omitted this courtesy,......

The Prime Minister Is Faced With The Task Of Filling

the See of Truro. It should, I think, be offered to the Dean of Canterbury, on condition that he never thereafter crosses the Tamar. And now I apologise to all Cornishmen.......

Chinese Travel West.

T THE journey of nine delegates of the People's Republic of China to Lake Success is an event fraught with immense possibilities of good or evil for the world. It will reveal,......

Mr. Herbert Morrison Always Strongly Favoured The...

Royal Commission on the Press, which in the event passed a 1 erdict so very different from what he had hoped for.' But there was one straw to clutch at. The Commission (with......

I Must Congratulate My Colleague Peterborough, Of The...

on resurrecting, on the day the latest coal-crisis was reported, a helpful observation made by Mr. Aneurin Bevan in 945: "This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by......