3 JUNE 1938, page 6

A Writer In The Current Issue Of Science And Society,

dis- cussing the censorship in Germany, points out that, while the daily papers are disciplined with an iron hand, some of the weeklies and monthlies have developed a technique......

A Spectator's Notebook

S O Sir Maurice Hankey is leaving his distinguished and pluralist position in Whitehall to become a Director of the Suez Canal Company. (But nearly not. If he had not stepped......

I Am Taken To Task By A Caledonian Who Charges

me with having called Scotland a backwater because I spoke of Mr. Walter Elliot as " returning from a backwater " to the Ministry of Health. I did nothing of the kind—and have......

* * * * Teaching Is Commonly Regarded As A

rather ill-paid profession, which owes its attractions to other 'compensations —such as long holidays and the nature of the work itself. But the High Mastership of St. Paul's,......

Unfamiliarity With The Technique Of Foreign Travel Seems...

Captain Ramsay, M.P., for example, is reported as having asked the Prime Minister on Monday the singular question whether " in granting visas to Members of Parliament to visit......

Murder From The Air

T HIS week all civilised men have once again been appalled at the massacre of defenceless civilians by attacks from the air ; but there is still no sign of any serious attempt......

* * * * Motorists And A Great Many Other

people have read with considerable interest of Herr Hitler's plans for the mass- production of what is described . in headlines as " A £5o car." But is it a £50 car? Here the......

Are Prisoners Being Used To Provide Anti-air-raid Equip-...

Sir Samuel Hoare says 275,000,000 sandbags are on order. There could be no more suitable indoor work for convict-prisons than the production of part of them, and it would have a......

It Was Bishop Westcott, I Think, Who Said That While

he had never been to the. Derby he had once come rather near it, for he had actually passed through Derby station in the train while the race was being run. Paws.......