2 NOVEMBER 1934, page 6

I Suppose Sir John Simon Hardly Intended To Pay The

Prime Minister a back-handed compliment at Monday's National Labour luncheon, but when he congratulated Mr. MacDonald on the way in which the Cabinet had stood the test of the......

Instruction For The - Young Unemployed O N June 28th Last...

Unemployment Act (1934) became law, and the Minister of Labour was given power to require all unemployed boys and girls under the age of eighteen to attend courses of......

* * * " During The First Fortnight Of July,"

says The Times, in relation to the Cathedral Pilgrimage, " the cathedrals opened their doors to all who would buy a pilgrim's ticket for half a crown." The implication that the......

The Appearance Of Another Volume Of Mr. Garvin's "...

" next week, following the appearance of another volume of Mr. Lloyd George's Mt mairs last week, marks a conjunction of luminaries which lends pertinence to a literary crystal......

I Wonder How Long It Will Take London To Realize

how ridiculous Mr. Hore-Belisha is making it with his bevies of orange beacons. To be condemned perpetually to wear the air of preparation for a fifth-rate carnival might be......

Mr. Baldwin At The Same Luncheon Relapsed More Readily Than

is common with him into &chi. He saw no prospect, he observed, of going back to the party dog-fight of the old days. The party dog-fight ! So that is the now approved......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE statement Lady Haig has made to the Daily Record regarding Earl Haig's war diaries demonstrates the difficulty under which the late Field-Marshal's bio- grapher, Mr. Duff......

Astronomers Have Wrested Many Secrets From The Stars, But...

the secret of whether life exists anywhere in the universe except on this earth. Sir James Jeans in his broadcast talk on Tuesday admitted that, observing that " some strange......