Last Monday's Daily Mail Contained An Instructive Article...
the teachers of Verdun "cheated the Germans." One of the teachers told the story. On orders from Vichy, he said, all the old text-books were scrapped, and new ones, which must......
A Spectator 's Notebook
T HE outcry about the alleged omission of Hitler from the list of war-criminals is very much beside the mark ; there would be much more reason for outcry if he were included.......
* * * * Whatever May Be Said For The
relaxation in the treatment of Italy agreed on by Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt, Signor Benedetto Croce's demand that Italy should now be treated as an Allied Power, and......
* * * * The Hansard Society, Founded By Commander
Stephen King- Hall, is broadening out into an organisation for publicising Parlia- ment. That is all to the good, for a mere attempt to increase the circulation of Hansard could......
I Do Not Know Whether Mr. Amery, In Defending The
Indian Army on Tuesday against the strictures of an irresponsible Ameri- can journalist (one of the charges was that it was a mercenary force —volunteers being apparently of a......
Official Beveridge
T HE Government's Social Insurance scheme, like all great I projects of the kind, consists of principle and detaiL Neither is immutable, but changes of principle are clearly a......
I Have Only Seen One Reference—though There May Have Been
more—to the centenary of the death of John Sterling, which fell on September 18th. Sterling's writings are virtually unknown today, but he made a deep impression on the......
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Ingenious novelties are always attractive, and an educational news-sheet which has just been sent me is both ingenious and novel. It is dated 1815, and consists of what purport......
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