26 JANUARY 1945, page 13

The Enthronement Of The Primate

SIR,—The enthronement (the correct word is, I believe, inthronisation) of a bishop is a picturesque and impressive ceremony. I speak as one to whom it has fallen to arrange two.......

Sta,—in The Interpretation Of Documents We Are Not To Be

guided by what people, however eminent, tell us afterwards that they meant when they wrote them, but by what in fact they wrote. No "interpretation" can make the words "a Jewish......

The Palestine Mandate

SIR, —In your issue of January 59th, Mr. Israel Cohen quotes what he describes as the "more authoritative views of those mainly responsible for the Balfour Peclaration." There......

The Teacher's Reward

Sin,—May I make a few comments upon the article contributed to The Spectator under the above heading, by Mr. F. R. Hurlstone-Jones?. During the last fifty years there has been a......

A Russian On Poland

SIR,—Mr. Czeslaw Poznanski in his letter, published in The Spectator last week, seems to have hit the nail on the head. He says: "The actual dispute is a dispute between Poland......

Coal Troubles

SIR,—AS another optant for coal mining I should like to confirm the facts given by " Optant " in his recent letter. I am employed in the Stirlingshire area in what is also......