30 JULY 1948, page 5

Enter Mr. Hoffman

It is essential to discover at once whether this was a true or false picture of the actual state of affairs in Paris. And it can be said at once that the disturbing account in......

At A Gait Too Dignified To Be Called A Scurry,

yet definitely more precipitate than a glide, a large section of Their Majesties' guests at last week's Garden Party began with one accord to make their way to a corner of the......

A Spectator 's Notebook,

A WIDE range of epithets has been used to describe the behaviour of the Russian authorities in Berlin, but if I had to plump for a single word to define its salient......

Three Of Us Landed The Other Day At A Major

British airport with a few shillings'-worth of unexpended foreign currency in our pockets. The official who changed it for us wanted to know—in order to record on a form—the......

I Can't Believe That I Am The Only Man In

the country who finds something mildly nauseating in the Switch Family Robinson, the imaginary family who figure in the Central Electricity Board's latest advertisements. " I......

By The Time You Read These Words The Fourteenth Olympiad

will have been inaugurated at Wembley, where 6,000 athletes will have paraded before the King, and 7,000 pigeons will have been released by Boy Scouts. (At Berlin in 1936 they......

The Man Who Writes To Me From Birmingham Gets Angrier

and angrier. " I ask Lords, Dukes and other rich men for money, just for a £r note privately enclosed. But I get exactly nothing ! " he complains. " That Betty Grable crowd in......