I Am Glad To Learn That The Intolerable Proposal To
construct a greyhound racing track near Gold Hill, between Gerrard's Cross and Chalfont St. Giles, has been emphatically vetoed by the local district council. Quite apart from......
Members Of Parliament Who Were Taken By The Ministry Of
Civil Aviation to see Heath Row aerodrome—or London Airport, as it is to be celled henceforward—got back to Westminster with slightly divided minds. The. size of the aerodrome......
* * * * It Was A Great Greek Who
affirmed that man was a political animal. His present-day successors (though the succession has experienced a good many adventures through the centuries) are political past any......
Organising Health
T HE National Health Service Bill is designed, in the words of its opening paragraph, " to provide for the establishment of a comprehensive health service for England and......
A Spectator 's Notebook
T HE Labour Government has now been in office for eight months. Mr. Attlee had no easy task in choosing his Front Bench, but in the main his selection has been well justified.......
When The Personnel Of The Future Coal Board, Minus Its
vice- chairman, was announced I commented on the excellence of Mr. Shinwell's choice. Tuesday's further announcement, that the vice- chairman is to be Sir Arthur Street, raises......
It Is An Interesting Coincidence, But There Is No Reason
to think it more than a coincidence, that the appointment of the British Ambassador in Moscow to Washington should be followed so quickly by the appointment of the American......
It Sounds As If Something More Than Chance Had Carried
Mr. Isaac Foot, President of the Cromwell Society, to the Lord Mayoralty of Plymouth precisely three hundred years after the siege of Plymouth by the Royalist forces was raised......
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