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The Resignation Of Mr. T. L. Horabir. From The Liberal

Party in the House of Commons has the result of reducing the membership of that select body by over 8 per cent It now ha ir members in- stead of 12 (or, according to some......

In Search Of Peace

T HE sober tone of the debate on foreign affairs in the House of Commons this week chimed with the realities of the situation. The world is not at war, but it is far from having......

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The retirement of Mr.. Harold McKenna from the bench deprives the London magistrates' courts of a notable figure. Mr. McKenna has sat at Bow Street since 1936 (there was some......

I Have Been Involved In Some Discussion About Whether The

new verse of the National Anthem, sung at the United Nations service at St. Paul's on Sunday, is better or worse than the one it displaced. Manifestly it could not be worse ;......

A Spectator's Notebook

M EMBERS of the Labour Party, in appealing to the President of the Board of Trade from time to time to release more newsprint for the daily papers, have urged the desirability......

An Unusual Feature Of Oxford And Cambridge This Term Is

the married undergraduate. He was not quite an unknown phenomenon before the war, but now he forms quite an appreciable percentage, perhaps 7 or 8 per cent., of the new entries.......

I Am Very Glad To Hear That The Memorial To

Eleanor Rathbone is making good progress, and in particular that a large number of small sums from small people have reached the treasurer of the fund. That is what Eleanor......

The Announcement That Spurgeon's Tabernacle At Newington...

be rebuilt on a new site seems to give some excuse for recalling the story of the Baptist fish Spurgeon was passing a fishmonger's shop in South London and noticed on the slab a......

A Good Many People Probably Heard The Name Of M.

Malenkov for the first time when they read the article on " Stalin's Successor in The Spectator a fortnight ago. The attention drawn to this little- known personality has soon......

The Bishop Of London's Committee On The City Churches Seems

to have reached sensible, though by no means drastic, conclusions. The damage done in the blitzes was extensive, but not, in many cases, irreparable. Actually only five churches......

I Don't Know Whether The Quip About Truman Fiddling While

Byrnes was roaming has appeared in print before, but it seems worth risking. JANUS.......