26 OCTOBER 1934, page 6

Mr. Mackenzie King, Who, Unless Every Political...

illusive, will be once more Prime Minister of Canada within a few months, has just left for home after a short private visit to this country. He has undertaken no public......

The Deadly Earnestness Of Sport Is Really Getting Rather...

After body-line cricket we are to have dictatorship football. The Daily Mail's Rome corre- spondent has given impressive particulars of it. An Italian eleven (for the game, it......

In His Entertaining . Argument With Stalin Mr. Ii. C. Wells

took leave of his host with the obSetvation, " At the present time.thete are in the world only two persons to whose opinion, to whose every word, millions are listening—you and......

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I am not surprised that Canon Sheppard should have had a considerable response to his appeal for the names of men who would declare for 'the complete renunciation of all war of......

The Function Of Libraries

T HE opening of the new Library at Cambridge University has marked, with splendour, a stage of an important section of the history of civilization. The imparting of knowledge......

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Without Comment " The Tailwaggers' Club has been in touch with Mr. Hore Belisha and has been told that he is anxious to include the barking of dogs as one of the noises that......

At The Same Time The Difference In The Position Accorded

to Mr. Henderson in both biographies is notable. For he is conspicuous in both, in Mr. Lloyd George's in connexion with his visit to Russia in 1917, the discussions about the......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE virtually simultaneous appearance of the second volume of Lord Snowden and the fourth volume of Mr. Lloyd George within three days of each other has the effect of throwing......