1 JUNE 1944, page 14

Virgil's Baskets Sir,—owing To The Big Demand For...

and panniers for war purposes and consequent restrictions in the use of willow rods for domestic baskets, the latter are being made from various substitutes, but obviously not......

Country Life

SEVERAL characteristic spots Or districts in England are in a certain jeopardy. One is the Peak of Derbyshire, perhaps the most popular holiday haunt within the island. Now on......

" What Happened At Teheran " Sir,—your Correspondent, Mr....

Beck, accuses me of being two years behind the times. It is true that the Saturday Evening Pon changed its violently anti-British policy in 1942, but I have read many covert......

Dehydration—a.d. 1771 Sta,—the Following Quotation From A...

Benjamin Franklin to Bishop Shipley, the then Bishop of St. Asaph, suggests that dehydra- tion is no new practice: " I have taken the liberty of sending a specimen of the......

Mother's " Day Off" Sta,—now That The Government Have Issued

their White Papers on the proposed National Health Service it may be assumed that they will follow them shortly with detailed proposals on child-care, an important part of the......

De Valera's Lost Chance

Sm,—In his reply in your issue for May 19th to one of my simple questions, Sir Christopher Robinson admits that conscription for the British Forces was not • attempted in......