29 APRIL 1949, page 5

The Death Of Lord Uthwatt Recalls An Old Story Which

I don't think I have told before. On November 11th, 1918, Mr. Andrewes Uthwatt, as the future Law Lord then was, and Mr. A. G. Gardiner, Editor of the Daily News, walked out of......

Goodbye To Gunboats

M R. ATTLEE'S review, given to the House of Commons on Tuesday, of the recent rragic events on the Lower Yangtse was on the whole well received ; and his critics, pursuing with......

A.b.c. To Some People, I Suppose, Suggests D.e.f. And The

rest ; to others restaurants ; to others railway-trains ; to others three Latin- American republics. But the letters have lately attained a new and very meritorious connotation.......

Is The Iron Curtain Pierced By Radio 1 That Interesting

and not unimportant question is asked by a writer in Le Monde. He empha- sises the completeness of the literary isolation which the Kremlin succeeds in establishing by banning......

Since Tuesday There Has Been Considerable Talk About...

dealing with prolixity in the House of Commons. Since Tuesday, because in the debate on War Pensions on that day, Mr. Roderick Bowen spoke for 76 minutes ; Mr. C. J. Simmons for......

Mr. Walter Lippmann Has Been Taking An Odd Political Line

lately, as a result of his obdurate opposition to the Atlantic Pact, but fortune has rarely treated him so ill as it did this week. His article in Tuesday's Daily Mail was......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I T would be charitable to suggest that Mr. A. R. Johnstone, of the British Ally, the paper published by the British Embassy in Moscow and sold to the extent of 50,000 copies......