4 JANUARY 1946, page 9

A Spectator's Notebook

G ILBERT MURRAY, who kept his eightieth birthday on Wed- nesday after an illness which suggested at one time that he would never keep it at all, is one of the men—perhaps the......

In Eleanor Rathbone The House Of Commons Loses One Of

its most sincerely and universally respected members. To her colleagues there the news of her death will come as a surprise no less than as a grief, for right down to the......

I Have Said Nothing About The John Amery Case, Though

it so happens that there are one or two notes of interest which I could add to what has been said already. But I cannot refrain from reproducing the moving letter from Amery's......

The Nuremberg Trial Is In Full Swing Again, And Likely

by all accounts to last for three or four months more yet. Meanwhile the short Christmas recess gave the opportunity for a kind of Nuremberg reunion in London. The British......

Ordinary Readers—i Will Not Say Admirers—of Theodore...

I should imagine, have read with some surprise the depreciatory obituary notice of him in Monday's Times. Take one judgement alone: " The earnest, massive, but fatiguing An......

From Moscow To U.n.o.

LTAS the progress towards peace been - resumed—if, as a cynic n might question, it had ever been well begun? It is an apposite moment to ask that, a moment almost half-way......

Unless I Can Get External Disturbances Like Christmas Out Of

my bones better than I did last week I shall have to start an Apology Corner as a permanent institution. Why I spoke of Arthur Clement Hilton, the author of The Octopus, as......