The New Triple Unity
T HE future of the British Commonwealth is arousing serious reflection, as it should, in many quarters. General Smuts is the latest and most distinguished of several......
"it Would Be Necessary To Arrange A Short Extra Session
of Parliament between September and October for the purpose of having the [Parliament] Bill passed a second time." The Times Parliamentary Correspondent. On the precise method......
A Word More On Stamps. A Reader In New Zealand
(who gets his air-mail edition of The Spectator in seven days) has sent me a letter adorned with no fewer than ten current postage stamps of different denominations, of nine......
A Spectato R's Notebook
I T is no use pretending that a chance collection of Englishmen in frock coats or morning coats of different cuts, carrying umbrellas or not carrying them, wearing top hats or......
If You Were Told That A Train Was To Be
painted in "plum and spilt milk lined with bands of yellow-maroon-yellow separated by lines of spilt milk" what would you expect it to look like ? You are told that, as a matter......
Very Rarely Is So Distinguished A Company Assembled As...
at the hospitable invitation of Mr. Justice Birkett, at dinner at the Reform Club on Tuesday to do honour to Judge Parker, one of the two American Judges at the Nuremberg trial,......
The Letters In Tuesday's Times From The Headmasters Of...
bury and Tonbridge (the former is the present Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference) on the new school examination raise an important issue that should not go by default. It......
Active As Ever In Body And Mind At 77, Lord
Samuel never makes a speech without coining an epigram. Addressing a hundred Liberals from about a quarter as many countries at Zurich on Monday, he observed that though......
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