27 JANUARY 1950, page 5

Being Slightly Claustrophobic Myself, I Am Not Disposed...

lightly the warnings of those who foresee the confined space of the 1951 Exhibition hopelessly congested by the crowds who are being exhorted to attend it. This is obviously a......

This Week's Report Of The Select Committee On Estimates On

the activities of the Arts Council shows once more how valuable a body the Select Committee is. Of the many features of its report brie is of particular interest here, for I......

The Exorcism Of A Ghost By A Bristol Clergyman On

Tuesday "in conformity with the rites of the Church of England" may or may not have deleterious effects on the ghost—that remains to be dis- closed—but it recalls the exercise......

The Conservative Case

T HE Conservatives have undeniably got away to a good start. Mr. Churchill's broadcast of last Saturday has been characterised as vague. That criticism will only hold -if the......

Textual Criticism Is Always An Engrossing Occupation. I...

applying it to two reviews of the late Edward Stettinius's Roosevelt and the Russians, by Malcolm Muggeridge in the Daily Telegraph and by Q. E. D. in Time and Tide. M. M. says:......

A Spectator's Notebook

* * * * ERMAN Generals are having a thin time today, compared at least to their counterparts in the British or French or American armies. Two cases, one of which interests me......