26 NOVEMBER 1948, page 5

It Is Not, I Fancy, Generally Known, And It Is

likely to cause some surprise, that any alien visiting this country can obtain free treatment —including the supply of dentures or spectacles—under the National Health Insurance......

Coal Board Under Fire

N OT long ago it was the custom for all statements by the Government on economic policy to begin with a recital of the difficulties created by the war and by what were usually......

Lord Samuel's Advocacy Of The Institution Of A Common Good

fund, to be raised through voluntary subscriptions and administered for "the common good" by wisely chosen; experienced and able trustees ought to set something moving. The idea......

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HE Sunday Times article on General Eisenhower's book has not created as much tumult as it might have. That, on the whole, is a good thing. Eisenhower was so conspicuously......

* * A Little Book I Have Just Been Reading

with much interest ought properly to be called "Ways with a Wife." Not that that would really do, for it is a serious legal work, and its actual, and rather misanthropic, title......

Flying, For Those Who Like It, Is An Excellent Way

of getting about, provided you are not in a hurry. Last week a writer not unknown to me went over to Paris for a few days. On the outward trip he was only a matter of an hour......

Meanwhile One Story Told Towards The End Of General...

book has a special personal interest at a moment when thoughts are so painfully concentrated on the physical consequences of the King's conscientious devotion to duty. In......