30 MAY 1952, page 5

The Treaties And After

T HE HE signature of the Contractual Agreement with Ger- many and of the European Defence Community Treaty is an event to hail with satisfaction rather than exhilara- tion. The......

The Appearance Of The Annual Preface To " Crockford "

is both a literary and an ecclestiastical event. The prefaces are, I believe, by a different hand each year, and the well- informed on ecclesiastical matters take pleasure in......

The Well-chosen Assortment Of People Who Have Been...

preservation of parish churches in this country seem to me to have made a very good job of it. Their report brings out several interesting facts. It appears, for example, that......

A Spectator's Notebook

W HY Lord Beaverbrook should have chosen to rake up 411 the deplorable controversy over King Edward VIII's abdication in his broadcast on Sunday night is known only to himself.......

I Learn With Interest—and I Am Sure That Mr. C.

S. Forester will learn with greater interest—that the existence of a Horatio Nelson Hornblower, a real live one, has been discovered. It is perhaps not quite accurate to......

News From Oxford " The St. Peter's Hall Rugger Eight,

who traditionally throw their cox in the river at the end of Eights Week, are makino e an all out effort to drown him this year. The St. Peter's Hall cox is the only one on the......

Today I Can Oblige. The University Has Not Yet Quite

been born. It springs from the brain of Mr. St. John Barbe Baker, Founder of the Men of the Trees (" a society of earth healers who are working to create a universal tree sense......