30 NOVEMBER 1951, page 5

A Spectator's Notebook I S There Really No One In Authority

in the office of any popular paper who realises the disservice that is being done to the Royal Family by the current mania for plastering the papers with pictures of the Queen......

The Price Of Various Journals Continues To Advance. This...

Picture Post, which was originally 3d. and quite recently 4d., has moved up from 5d. to 6d., increased costs being, of course, the reason. No reference is made in the current......

If Mr. Brendan Bracken's Intention To Resign His Seat Is

carried into effect the House of Commons will lose a very picturesque figure and a very pungent speaker. His last office was a brief tenure of Admiralty House, but it was as......

Mysterious Things Happen To Current Coin. People Often...

there are not more shillings about. The Deputy- Master of the Mint (the Chancellor of the Exchequer is the Master, but he doesn't do much minting himself) in his annual report,......

A European Army ?

T HERE will be no sound basis for understanding between Great Britain and the United' States till a great many more Americans recognise, what intelligent Americans - hav'e......

Roman Catholics In High Places Have Not Been Altogether...

in their utterances of late. Nothing could be more profoundly unhappy than the statement attributed to Dr. Downey, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, who on Saturday......

How Much More Agreeable Amenities Across The Floor Of The

House of Commons are than asperities—and how much less frequent. Monday's interchanges on the Yorkshire Electricity Board scandal were a model to perpetuate. Referring to his......