3 MAY 1946, page 4

It Is Not Very Usual, Though Far From Unique, For

a layman to be chosen chairman of a body like the Baptist Union. It is still less usual for a distinguished lawyer to figure in that position, and perhaps less usual still for a......

The Problem Of Palestine

A PART from the value of its actual recommendations the report on Palestine published on Wednesday has one highly satisfactory consequence. The fact that a committee appointed......

It Is The Price Of The Late Lord Keynes' -versatility

that his death leaves important positions to fill everywhere. One of the most important is the chairmanship of the Arts Council, which he did • so much to create and foster. The......

Far Too Little Is Known Of Those Admirable Institutions, The

Forma- tion Colleges, of which five exist for the Army in Britain and three for the Army in different centres abroad. They represent the final " spit-and-polish" of education,......

I Permitted Myself A Few Words Of Comment A Week

or two ago on a fantastic and offensive article in a Soviet paper on the recent visit of the Dynamo football team to this country. I now learn from the Daily Worker, whose......

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HE harvest of death this week has been heavy. The Times on Monday contained obituaries of the Dean of Westminster (the ticket I received on Wednesday for Lord Keynes' memorial......

The Disappearance Of A London Theatre In These Days Is

a serious loss, and whatever the merits of the moral disarmament plays which the Oxford Group, which has acquired the Westminster Theatre, just off Buckingham Gate, proposes to......

The Speech In Which The Minister Of Health Introduced The

National Health Service Bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday was, I imagine, the best he has yet made in the House—certainly the best of a constructive order. Mr. Aneurin......