The Balkans
1 1 1 HE agenda for the Paris Conference provided that Balkan 1 problems should be considered. There was little hope that any of them would be settled at this late stage in......
The Other Day I Applied To _his Same Board Of
Trade for an import licence in respect of six hawks and six racing pigeons. The Board of Trade granted a licence for the hawks but jibbed at the racing pigeons. "This request,"......
A Spectator 's Notebook
I WONDER how the increase in the paper ration will affect three publishers of my acquaintance who, having been released from the Forces, have joined together to start a new......
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It is not true, as is sometimes loosely asserted, that the British have a genius for making themselves uncomfortable ; but they go about the job in a quietly determined,......
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The bulldozer I hired, at 30s. an hour, to clear the else impenetrable jungle left by over-thinning 30 acres of beech for the Ministry of Supply in 1940, makes a good job of it.......
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