3 JUNE 1949, page 5

A Spectator's Notebook

L L things considered, the Eisler case has ended satisfactorily. At all events, as the Home Secretary was able to show clearly in the House of Commons, the normal legal pro-......

The Post Office Has Anmunced Its Intention To Increase The

pro- vision of automatic stamp-selling machines as rapidly as possible. As a result of the saving in manpower thus secured it is hoped— at any rate I hope—that it may be......

I Am Sorry To Read Of Captain Von Rintelen's Death.

I always thought The Dark Invader as good of its kind as any book that came out of the First World War, or for that matter out of the second. The story of von Rintelen's......

There Is A Tavern In A Train, In A Train.

And most people, myself included, profoundly wish there wasn't. What possessed whom in British Railways to imagine that the travelling public want a buffet- car to look like an......

Some Fifty Officers Of The Territorials Spent Last...

an exercise in Dorset. They were quartered, under arrangements made by the local military authorities, in a Bournemouth hotel, most of them sleeping two or three in a room. They......

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"From the pulpit of St. Paul's yesterday Canon John Collins told a congregation of about zoo. . . ." Daily Herald, May 3oth. "Seldom can St. Paul's Cathedral have had so large a......

Red Light For Labour

A YEAR ago, at Scarborough, the Labour Party's annual conference faced a dangerous future, and failed to see it. The decision between a further extension of State control over......

Half The Battle Against Higher Telephone Charges Has Been...

The increase in basic rentals—an impost which no one could escape— is abandoned for the present, which pretty certainly means altogether. But the surcharge for every individual......