27 MAY 1949, page 5

In His Diplomatic Autobiography—diplomatic In The...

refers to a member of his staff in China as " the world's worst sailor." I doubt that. I know of a competitor whom I could put forward with some confidence. But for the one and......

A Spectator's Notebook

F OR reasons which may possibly be adequate the Post Office appears to lag behind any other Government department in getting back to pre-war standards of efficiency in public......

The Attorney-general's Opinion Of The Novel, The Naked...

Dead, is broadly identical with the view I expressed here a fortnight ago. Answering a question on the subject in the House of Commons on Monday, Sir Hartley Shawcross observed,......

M. Vyshinsky At Paris

T << HE main problems before the Four Ministers were those of the functions and powers of the future central government of Germany, the achievement of economic unity for that......

Professor G. D. H. Cole Is One Of The Oracles

of the Labour movement, and it is always slightly disconcerting to find an oracle declaiming, not through a cloud of subterranean smoke, but through its hat. In his latest......

The Fact That Mr. Donald Won, Having Firmly Established...

in Camden Town, has begun to perform the same office for Shaw is encouraging. But some of the alliterative and slightly satirical comments on " culture in Camden Town " are a......

The New Testament, As Several Readers Of This Column Have

not failed to point out, has its pitfalls. I quoted last week, in connection with the debate in the Convocation of Canterbury on the functions of women in the Church, the words......