29 JUNE 1934, page 6

Fresh From An Evening With The Marionettes Myself I Have

noted with interest Mr. Asquith's comments (in the new volume of H. H. A. letters) on Signor Podrecca's inimitable entertainment as he saw it eleven years ago. I agree with him......

The Pope Is Conforming To One Of The Most Ancient

traditions of the Roman Catholic Church when he orders a world-wide campaign against immoral sex and crime films. It was in this spirit that the early Fathers pro- nounced......

This Week's Over-statement : " The Banning Of This Journal

(Oriental Affairs), together with the censorship of foreign Press telegrams, in which comment on current affairs is deleted, the sense of messages is altered, and statements of......

A Spectator's Notebook

M R. MACDONALD had no choice but to accept Lord Horder's advice and give his eyes the three months' rest which he prescribed. As long as the Prime Minister is on duty at home......

The Character Of Toynbee Hall (now Celebrating Its...

changed greatly since I first knew it when Canon Barnett was Warden, and numbers of civil servants, journalists, educationists and others in residence there were dividing their......

To What Type Of Distinguished Person Would One Suppose It

to be safest to entrust one's innermost con- fidences about affairs of State—to an Emperor, a States- man, a General, or a journalist ? In the Preface to his War Memoirs Mr.......