30 JANUARY 1948, page 5

Rarely Have I Known One Book Suggest Another As The

Bitter End, which is published his week, does Kravchenko's well-known I Chose Freedom, which appeared here last year. Gisevius' book tells, on the whole convincingly, the inner......

I Am Not Wanting To Buy A House, But Someone

I know is. He heard of one the other day. It was portrayed to him with all that peculiar verbal felicity of which house-agents are acknowledged masters. The price was fantastic,......

A Spectator 's Notebook T He Cambridge Senate Should Be...

on February 7th to elect a successor to the late Lord Baldwin as Chancellor of the University.. Whether it will seems doubtful. I am not quite sure whether if only a single name......

Benelux Is Very Much In The Air At Present, But

there are a lot of people who feel rather hazy about it. What is it, and what is it trying to do? Its name, BElgium, NEtherlands, LUXembourg, in- dicates that it is an......

An Attempt To Do What May Crudely Be Called Making

religion news is a pretty delicate undertaking. The Church of England Commission that has been considering the question for the last two years has its hesitations at any rate......

The Combination Of That Almost Unique Four-master The '...

' and the ' Prospect of Whitby' was too much for me. Would I come and see the one and lunch at the other? I would and did, regardless of the neglect of numberless duties......

, The Attorney-general Rather Startled More Pedantic...

House of Commons on Monday by referring, in connection with the notorious Baxter v. Baxter to " marital " relations, laying . heavy emphasis on the middle syllable. I have since......

France Exports Trouble

T HE fall in the value of the franc has been going on for at least thirty years. From 25 to the pound sterling in 1914 it fell to 8o after the first world war, 48o after the......