24 APRIL 1947, page 5

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The statement of the Minister of Works that the fate of the statue of General Gordon which used to stand in Trafalgar Square is under consideration is disturbing. Why should......

Various Assessments Of Mr. Henry Wallace By His...

continue to reach me. They are hardly worth reproducing here, except one—and that as a specimen of American English rather than of American opinion. " The favoured topic for......

Does London Matter ?

T HE statement made by the Minister of Town and Country 1 Planning on Tuesday on the construction of a vast electric power station on the south bank of the Thames opposite St.......

A Spectator 's Notebook

B Y his Cabinet changes the Prime Minister has achieved variety without achieving visible improvement. To Lord Pethick- Lawrence, who leaves the India Office for well-deserved......

I Like When Possible To Keep Readers Of This Column

in the latest ecclesiastical intelligence. Here is some that has reached me this week from Madras, featuring one or two not unfamiliar personalities. It takes the form of a......

There Is Nothing Quite So Difficult In The World As

reaching settled convictions about Russia. Stories emerge of things that happen there which seem to open between us a gulf it is impossible to span. I had not till this week met......