26 APRIL 1946, page 4

I Feel The Strongest Sympathy With A Recent Letter In

The Timis from Mr. Grant Richards, who protests against the ostentatious luxury of the Golden Arrow train, and in particular against the provision of a cocktail-bar as an......

Socialism And Steel

W ITH his unerring flair for the penetrating phrase Mr. Churchill asked of the Government's statement on the future of the iron and steel industry whether it was business or......

A Spectator's Notebook

▪ FIRST met Maynard Keynes when we were freshmen at Cam- ▪ bridge bridge together, and—to leap the span of the intervening years— it was a deep disappointment that influenza......

Some Time In 1919 I Asked Edwin Montagu, Who Was

then Secre- tary for India, whether there was any outstanding Indian capable of leading his country in its march towards independence. " Yes," he said at once, " Srinivasa......

By The Decision Of Wing-commander Millington, M.p., To...

Common Wealth and join Labour the House of Commons loses one of its fourteen parties and Common Wealth loses its only member of that House. The number fourteen, which I take......

There Is A Curious Story Current Purporting To Explain The

Government's otherwise inexplicable action in committing itself to obviously unconsidered and undecided, and still more obviously disastrous, proposals for the partial—no one,......

Official Functions Usually Savour Of The Formal, But...

something almost of a family circle atmosphere at the Foreign Secretary's farewell dinner to the American Ambassador on Tues- day. That was due mainly to Mr. Bevin himself, who,......