24 OCTOBER 1952, page 5

When John (viscount) Morley Was Alive—he Died In...

considerable mystery about his wife, and a good deal of doubt as to whether he was in fact married. Mrs. Morley never appeared in public." A Liberal official who had to arrange......

Mr. Butler Relents And Does Not Relent. The Tate Gallery

regains the two or three attendants it was required to dismiss in the interests of economy—surely a shabby kind of economy —but the English traveller abroad is still restricted......

* * The Death This Week Of Theodore Taylor, Of Batley,

at the age of 102 will be noted with interest as well as regret by those who remember the article he contributed to the Spectator two years ago in the week of his hundredth......

The Mau Mau Threat

i s no longer any question about the weight and determination behind the offiNal measures to deal with the Mau Mau threat in Kenya. The declaration of a state of emergency, the......

Mr. John Braithwaite Is A Popular And Efficient Chairman Of

the London Stock Exchange, but he has not—assuming the remarks attributed to him in a New York message to be authentic—realised how unwise it is for an Englishman to intrude......

A Spectator's Notebook

C OMMENThas been made on the strength of theBevanites in workers with the hand—the hand that taps , the type- writer or drives the pen. Quite apart from Mr. Bevan's wife and her......

Two Westminster M.p.s, Both Conservatives, Are At...

advertisements in Trafalgar Square. It will be objected that there are not two M.P.s for Westminster. Strictly speaking there are not. But Sir Harold Webbe, who wants to keep......