29 JULY 1949, page 5

Right Road?

L., AST week-end's speeches by Mr. Churchill and Mr. Attlee, both on the Conservative Party's statement of policy, The Right Road for Britain, have been called, with an......

Somewhere In The Paris Office Of The New York Herald-tribune

there sits a sub-editor whose curious and unenviable task it is to write headlines for the cricket ncws from London. The London office does its best to ensure that he is seized......

Readers Who Recall The Comments Made—mildly By Strix,...

by Janus—on a rather scabrous American war-book called The Naked and the Dead may be interested to know how it has been selling. The publishers say that, although they have re-......

After Lunch The Other Day Somebody Asked Somebody Else:...

are the nicest, the most beautiful, the most inspiring words you have ever heard spoken ? " Various people recalled remarks which had given them extreme pleasure when they were......

Considering The Size Of The Taxes We Pay And The

regularity with which (on the whole) we pay them, the manner in which the Com- missioners of Inland Revenue acknowledge their receipt always strikes me as singularly ungracious.......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I FEAR that I made a deplorable impression on the Russian Ambassador, with whom I fell into conversation the other night. Having in the past derived much pleasure and interest......

After Receiving Plans (in Quadruplicate) Of The Edifice...

great deal of superfluous correspondence having been exchanged, the local Planning Authority has granted my application for permission to erect a summer-house in my garden on......