29 OCTOBER 1932, page 6

I Was Glad To Hear Mr. Malcolm Macdonald Make Such

an excellent impression on the House of Commons on Monday. The meat quota scheme, which he was com- missioned to defend, is very imperfectly understood and still less perfectly......

Anticipation Of The New Laws Of Auction And Contract Bridge,

to be promulgated next week, is, I gather, causing some stir in circles where bridge is taken seriously (and where, I regret to say, I do not move). As things stand, Bridge as......

• * * * The Importance Of Mr. Norman Davis'

conversations with the Prime Minister this week is not what a good many papers, who erroneously describe Mr. Davis as head of the American Delegation at the Disarmament......

Having Had The Opportunity Of Seeing And Hearing The...

at the Peace Conference myself over a period of months, I went with rather more than ordinary interest to see Dr. Ludwig's play Versailles. Of the dramatic side of it I say......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE new Asquith biography, in its relentless analysis of the events of that fevered first week in December, 1916, brings to light one document on which I should like to add a......

The Sooner The Mystery . Of Mr. Sastri's Absence From The

new Round Table discussions is cleared up, the bette r . The official explanation is that the state of . his health makes it undesirable that he should take so long a journey......

The Amnesty To Political Prisoners Announced By Signor...

Milan on Tuesday represents no sudden impulse, though little or nothing was said about it in advance. But one of the Duce's closest confidants told me more than twelve months......

Denmark, So I Learn From The Pig Commission's Report, Is

happy (if there be in fact happiness in such a lot) in the possession of more pigs than people. No country in the world, I suppose, can approach that record. At any rate we,......