26 SEPTEMBER 1952, page 4

Writing In Fast Week's Spectator, Mr. Ian Niall Described...

a friend of his accompanied two poachers on a successful foray. " The keeper," his anecdote concluded, " did not manage to come up with the law-breakers "; and this, he seemed......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE Japanese, recognised from 1941 to . 1945 as particularly cruel and treacherous barbarians, were subsequently reclassified by General MacArthur as starry-eyed democrats,......

Most Of Us Believe That The Works Of Shakespeare Were

written by Shakespeare, but a few propound with passion the theory that Bacon was responsible for the whole boiling. It is, I surmise, this minority who will react most......

The Real Housing Problem

0 N the face of it there could scarcely be a more concrete problem than that of housin g . As seen by most politicians and by all of the house-seekers, whose misfortunes have......

Eton, With What Many People Think Is Doubtful Wisdom, Still

allows boys to be entered for it at birth, or even before birth - (I know at least - two little girls who can claim to have been down for Eton). But however quick off the mark a......

I See, Incidentally, That In The Second Week Of The

Korean war, more than two years ago, I wrote—rather pompously—in the Spectator: " It is perhaps not altogether fanciful to suggest that one (and not the least important) of the......