4 APRIL 1952, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

D ILIGENT and well-intentioned authors so often get much less than their,due that I am glad to be able to indicate how a gentleman from Dayton, Ohio, regards a recent article by......

A Deal The Times Has Brought Off With The Daily

Mail a little surprises me. The two final volumes of that notable publica- tion The History of the Times are to be published on April 23rd. Review copies were sent out about a......

As To The Boat Race, Cambridge Was, Of Course, Beaten

by chicken-pox (with perhaps a little of Davidge thrown in). Mr. H. R. Rickett, as everyone knows, is a genius at tuning crews up to concert-pitch in the last fortnight before......

The Seretse Problem

W HATEVER final conclusion may be reached on the action of the Government in deciding that Seretse Khama, the lawful chief of the Bamangwato, shall be deprived permanently of......

A Week Or Two Ago I Raised The Question Whether

the B.B.C. News Department was acting on some hitherto undisclosed principle in refusing to call Dr. Adenauer anything but Herr Adenauer. I am glad to find it is so, for I am a......

"my Status Is Quo And My Quo Is Status," Said

Governor Stevenson of Illinois on Monday. This is a pronouncement of such profundity as to transcend my comprehension. I must leave it to better Latinists than myself to......

I Have Referred More Than Once To Those Fantastic Organisa-

tions, if they are separate organisations, the Acaddmie et Universitd Internationale, " Founded 1880, Reorganised 1937, Chartered 1947, Affiliated with the Pacific International......

As A Footnote To My Earlier Observations On The National

Anthem, I reproduce an extra verse devised for current con- ditions some 240 years ago. God grant that General Wade May by Thy mighty aid Victory bring. May he oppressors hush......