31 AUGUST 1951, page 4

A Quatrain I Have Just Lighted On By Chance Was

new to me, though familiar enough, no doubt, to many readers of this column: " Peace upon Earth, Goodwill to Men So greet we Christmas Day! Oh, Christian, load your gun and......

Claiming, As I Do, That No One In These Islands

has a more genuine or profound respect for the Royal Family than I have, I feel free to express the hope that the Press, particularly the popular papers, will let the Royal -......

At The Fall Of The Second Wicket, I Read, The

Leicester captain went out on to the field " and presented the young Yorkshireman [Smithson] with his Leicestershire cap." I don't know whether any young Leicestershireman......

Socialists At Sea

T HE new Labour Party statement of policy is a very useful document. It is not an impressive document. There is no justification for calling it even a competent document. But it......

Reprimanded Though I Have Been, And No Doubt Rightly, For

too frequent mention in this column of a university with which I have had some association, I will at least venture to suggest that a certain seat of learning which I will not......

Now That Helico_ptering Looks Like Becoming An...

of short - distance travel, we had better set about devising a suitable term for a helicopter landing-ground before some new barbarism gets ineradicably implanted in our......

A Spectator

'S NOTEBOOK M R. EDEN, by all accounts, has done a useful piece of national service in America and appears to have been scrupulous to avoid playing any kind of party game. I......