28 NOVEMBER 1952, page 5

My Assumption That The Latin Version Of The Lady Of

Riga included by Dr. M. J. Haarhoff in his Burge Lecture was original is evidently very much out, as a number of correspon- dents have been (mod enough to inform me. Like a......

The Riots In Baghdad Must Be Causing The Directors Of

the Iraq Petroleum Company some anxiety, for a large part of their fortunes is staked on the new pipe-line from Kirkuk in Iraq to Banias on the Mediterranean, a distance of some......

Today's Thought Be Content To Please A Few: To Please

many is bad.—SCHILLER. From The Daily Mirror (circulation 4,000,000). JANUS.......

Commonwealth And Coronation

T HIS week the representatives—in almost all cases Prime Ministers—of the States that compose the British Commonwealth of Nations are gathered in what is still recognised by all......

I Hope That The Conservative Amendment To Mr. C. .l

Simmons' Bill proposing the establishment of a General Council of the Press by statute Will be carried on Friday. A Press Council may be a good thing or a bad thing. The Royal......

"was Jesus Christ Wrong ? The Argument For Plural Marriage

for both sexes after seven years, with graphs and diagrams. Edward Wilson, M.D. (Non - Register)." Advertise- ment in the New Statesman. I like the designation. Watch for......

An Interesting Case Of Cause And Effect. The Spectator On

September 26th published an article by John Benn on the way to sell British goods abroad. The Spectator of October 17th contained a letter signed Philip Marsh reinforcing Mr.......

The Middlesex Education Committee Has Acted Very Sensibly...

to send picked boys to Christ's Hospital rather than Harrow. Not (let me assure the Prime Minister) that I mean anything derogatory to the school on the hill. But if it is a......

National Health Service Patients Are Likely To Be More Vocal

as a whole than pre-1948 out-patients in hospitals, and in some cases it is proper that they should be. Having attended a large hospital at 2 o'clock on a particularly busy day......

A Spectator's Notebook

L ORD SAMUEL, in raising the question of an all-party conference on the reform of the House of Lords on Tuesday, succeeded in eliciting from Lord Salisbury the assurance that......