27 MARCH 1953, page 7

What Is Known As The Pottery Trial Reached Its 33rd

day on Monday. How much longer it is likely to continue I have no knowledge; no end appears to be in sight yet. But this is a jury case, and twelve jurymen have so far been......

The Attacks By Fanatical Scots On Pillar-boxes, Public...

Coronation souvenirs bearing the legend E II R are petulant, childish and inexcusable. All the same, and altogether irrespective of that, I feel increasingly that the intrusion......

The Federation Vote

W ITH the division on Central African Federation in the House of Commons on Tuesday the die is cast. It is true that the project could still be brought to nothing by an adverse......

After Hearing A Singularly Interesting Lecture On...

Esher a week ago 1 took down from the shelf (because it happened to be the nearest book on the subject at hand) Stopford Brooke's Tennyson—part of a college prize quite a few......

In Case Anyone Has Missed The Latest Achievement Of The

Church Militant I reproduce the essence of the story as it appeared in one or two of Tuesday's papers.' It concerns the Rev. Richard Tydeman, vicar of St. John's, Woodbridge,......

Mr. Dalton, I Gather, Is Writing His Memoirs On A

majestic scale. The first volume, indeed, is written and will be out in • a few weeks. There are said to be two more to follow. H. G. Wells covered the history of the world in......

When The Princess Victoria' Car-ferry Sank In The Irish Sea

1 suggested that the disaster might possibly have been due to the car-doors in the stern being more vulnerable to heavy seas than the solid stern of an ordinary vessel. That......

A Spectator's Notebook

HE Royal Commission on the Press was invited by some of the more strident critics of the " capitalist " newspapers to find that those organs were improperly influenced in their......