25 FEBRUARY 1949, page 5

Labour And . Tory W Hatever The Truth—and There Would...

be very little—in the rumour that in certain eventualities the Government might consider an appeal to the country this summer, the fact remains that we are well into the last......

M. Spaak, Chairman Of The Committee Of Eight Which Is

to direct the body known at present as O.E.E.C.—Organisation for European Economic Co-operation—having expressed a desire for some better name than that, I feel impelled to make......

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India in the past has owed a great deal to Oxford and Cambridge, which supplied so many of the men who for generations administered her so well. And it is worth remembering that......

A Spectator 's Notebook T He Lord Baldwin Affair Is...

unfortunate, largely through Lord Baldwin's own fault. When the Colonial Secretary said in the House of Commons that the Governor of the Leeward Islands had been invited to come......

Reference Was Made In An Evening Paper One Day Last

month to a purveyor of beaver meat, who supplies that commodity to the fortunate inhabitants of Finsbury Park and environs. I say fortunate, because neither beaver steak nor any......

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Having commented last week on a heading (which I need not quote again) in the Sunday Express relating to Princess Margaret, I must in fairness mention the sequel. A large number......

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Since I wrote last week, in connection with the Government Hospitality Centre at 2 Park Street, that the Minister of Works was to be congratulated on his idea and its execution,......

Loth As I Am To See Any Scholastic Institution Deprived

of anything it needs for its welfare, I am bound to say I sympathise to the full with Sir Stanley Unwin's renewed protest against the obligation laid on all publishers to send......