1 MAY 1947, page 5

Though I Have Never Seen The Late F. J. Mccormick

in any stage- play, nor on the screen except as Shell in " Odd Man Out," I read the news of his death with real distress. For never, I think, have I seen on the film acting so......

One Day This Week I Noticed On The Table Of

a man whose rooms I was visiting a copy of the last issue of World Radio ; it was dated September zst, 1939, and is beginning to look a little yellow. Its owner happens to have......

"this Is Our Twenty-seventh Year Of Freedom," Said The...

of St. Asaph,rather strikingly in assessing the position of the dis- established and disendowed Church of Wales in the course of his University sermon at Cambridge on Sunday,......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE volume of protest against the Bankside electrical power- station, I am glad to see, is growing. The more the project is examined the more indefensible it appears. I have......

Now That The Palestine Question Is Before The United...

of which the United States is a prominent member, it is not unreason- able that Americans, both official and unofficial, should refrain from action deliberately designed to......

The Decision That No Seats Will Be Reserved This Summer

on any trains but boat-trains will involve the public in serious inconvenience and actual loss. With the train-service reduced, it will be necessary to get to the stations......

Anxious (writes A Correspondent) To Show One Of The Most

splendid and classical of our smaller English cities to a friend from Paris, I took him down to Bath on Saturday night. I knew, of course, that it is most unwise to make any......