31 MAY 1946, page 4

Th E Future

OF COTTON A COMMON criticism of the decisions so far taken by the Government on British industry, and on the iron and steel industry in particular, has been that they were not......

These Initials Are Getting Pestiferous. The Manchester...

meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in New York, heads it, "First Meeting of U.N.E.S.C.0." But it wasn't. E can stand for Educational as well as Economic,......

The Parliamentary Secretary To The Board Of Trade Said On

Monday that, owing to the shortage of the raw materials needed, the pro- duction of pianos is at present reserved for export only. In other words, peace at home and discord......

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HAT the first full Ministerial office to fall vacant would go to Mr. John Strachey has long been taken for granted, for the Under- Secretary for Air has shown himself in a......

The Meetings Of The National Federation Of Women's...

the Albert Hall this week has been a very notable success, not the least element in which was the contribution made by the Queen on Tuesday. The clearness and simplicity of her......

It Would Not Be Very Easy To Think Of Two

men who have done a greater service to English culture than Ernest Rhys, who died last week, and J. M. Dent, who died twenty years ago. Honours may be distributed evenly between......

Long Memories Impel Me To Break A Normally Rigid Rule

and put in a word for the fine old parish church of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, destroyed in the blitz of March, 1941. British history is built into the tower and the empty shell of......

No Ceremony Could Have Been More Agreeable Than The...

tion to Lord Cecil of his bust by Siegfried Charoux at Chatham House on Wednesday, and no tribute better deserved than that paid to the League of Nations veteran by Mr.......