3 MARCH 1939, page 6

This Strange Piece Of News Reaches Me From Georgetown,...

Guiana. I give it without comment, not being quite clear what comment is called for. " The Royal Commission arrived this week-end. The enquiry has already opened. One of the......

The Mein Kampf Translation Competition In America Gets...

firms have .produced translations of the volume in full. One translation is authorised, which means that Herr Hitler will get his royalties on it ; the other is published......

The Government's Opponents Are Entitled To Derive Some...

not a great deal, from the results of the last two by-elections. The Holderness contest was com- plicated by four candidatures, but if the unofficial and official Conservatives......

I Cannot Refrain From Reimporting From Across The Atlantic A

jewelled observation which the New Republic, of New York, has extracted from the Sphere, of London: " The Church of the Annunciation . . . is one of the sights of Nazareth, the......

* * * * More People, On Both Sides Of

the English Channel, read " Pertinax "—M. Andre Geraud—than agree with him. But he is always worth reading, and equally worth hearing, for he is an admirable speaker. At the......

A Spectator's Notebook

U NIVERSAL sympathy and good wishes will follow the retiring Spanish Ambassador in London, Don Pablo de Azcarate, into whatever walk of life he may determine to follow. He has......

• * Mr. Frank Pick's Originally Single-handed Campaign...

design of the King George V Memorial to be erected at Westminster is developing into a crusade which the Memorial Committee cannot ignore. And since the Chairman of the......

The Government As Business Partner

W HATEVER the outcome of the railways' demand for a square deal, the general public is now fully seized of the fact that the companies operate under imposed conditions which......