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The Journalistic Description Of Lady Grant, M.p., Who Has...

become engaged to Lord Tweedsmuir, as " the most photogenic member of the House of Commons " sent me forthwith to the Oxford Dictionary—not that I doubted what the writer meant......

A Spectator's Notebook

N OTHING more instructive on present conditions in Russia has appeared for some time than the three articles by Alexander Werth published in the Manchester Guardian in the past......

"now That Politics And Diplomacy Have Failed Him, Hall Is

going to try prayer," I read regarding one of the British husbands of Soviet wives. Quite so. Be practical before you are prayerful JMtus.......

The Virtual Certainty Of A Change Of Occupant At The

White Housd next January raises the important question of how extensive the consequential changes are likely to be. The so-called " spoils- system "—under which all kinds of......

Belgrade And Berlin.

R USSIA, it may safely be assumed, had no wish to find herself engaged, as she is engaged, on two fronts at once ; the military metaphor is inevitable, but fortunately it need......

The British Medical Association's Recommendation To The...

newspaper reports of inquests in suicide cases should be severely restricted, as reports of divorce cases are, is not likely to get much further, and in my opinion should not.......

There Is Hardly A Man, If There Is A Man

at all, whose departure from the House of Commons will be more genuinely regretted than George Buchanan's. He came there as a red-haired Clydeside rebel twenty-six years ago, he......

Party Courtesies Are Not So Frequent That They Should Go

un- recorded. When General Smuts agreed to come to England to be installed as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, it was naturally arranged that he would travel by a South African......