2 FEBRUARY 1951, page 5

* * * * I Have Been Sent A New

missing word question: " In the sweat of thy — shalt thou eat bread " (Genesis iti 19). I admit that I got it wrong, though 1 have been reading Genesis lately. (Persons who......

The Guardian Last Week Provided Its Readers With A Welcome

Cecilian iuet—not the less welcome that it was obviously unpre- meditated. An article on Reunion by the veteran Viscount Cecil was faced,. on the opposite page, with a letter on......

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The Evening Standard is to be congratulated on securing a photo- graph of a Danish lady in tears seeing her fiancd off to Korea. This is a notable achievement, for tears are a......

Defence And Peace

0 N Monday the Prime Minister made a grave speech in the House of Commons. On Tuesday the United Nations' Political Committee took a grave decision at Lake Success. It was not......

A Spectator's Notebook

R. BEVAN'S political broadcast last Saturday—his first—had been awaited with some curiosity. Would it be the torrential and provocative Nye of the House of Commons ? Not at all.......

Some Comment Has Been Caused By The Fact That While

Kent has diligently and religiously signposted (in preparation for the Festival of Britain) all that portion of the Pilgrims' Way lying within its borders, Surrey has declined......

A Paragraph In This Column Last Week Regarding The Possible

association of Shakespeare with the wording of parts of the Authorised Version of the Bible has elicited various interesting communications. The most interesting is a copy of......

" The First Standard Locomotive Built By British Railways...

named Brittania ' by the Minister of Transport." Daily Telegraph. They are thinking of calling the next one " Britannia." JANUS. JANUS.......