30 MARCH 1934, page 6

Mr. Baldwin's Reference, In The Ministry Of Defence...

" Epstein statues in the Parks," reminded me forcibly of the story of how Lord Balfour took him to see Rima in Kensington Gardens for the first time. There are good reasons why......

The Alarms Expressed In Some Sections Of The French Press

about the dangers of armed outbreaks in Paris need not perhaps be taken too seriously, but they accord very closely with news that reaches me from Paris through private......

It Is Not Out Of Place, I Hope, To Put

in here a plea for the humble pilchard—though there is really no reason fo r using any such derogatory adjective about so succulent a pelagic denizen (I borrow the term from the......

To Appoint The Vicar Of Plymouth (archdeacon Dawkes) As...

Bishop of Plymouth in place of the late Dr. Masterman may seem on the face of it unimagin- ative, though on personal grounds the choice is good. Actually the reasons are......

A Spectator's Notebook

S OME House of Commons arrangements and practices concern the House of Commons alone, some concern the electors who send members to the House. Among the latter is the consistent......

Since Public Opinion In This Country (not Without Ample...

is uniformly adverse to General Goering, whose book, addressed to the English-speaking peoples, has appeared this week, I am glad in fairness to reproduce a verdict on the......

The Organization Of Taste

F ROM time to time the imagination is stirred by some valiant effort of a few enlightened persons to promote some amenity or prevent mischievous encroach- ments on the finer......

An Interesting Light Will Be Thrown On The Extent To

which religious tolerance exists in Germany when the Baptist World Alliance holds its quinquennial congress in Berlin in August, for the main business of the congress will be to......