4 MAY 1934, page 6

Mr. Runciman's Seventeen Points-and After M R. Runciman...

his Cardiff audience an impressive list of achievements which a grateful country should put 'to the credit of the National Government. The Board of Trade being accustomed to......

I Wrote Last Week That The Italian Papers Made No

mention of the income , tax reduction in the British Budget. lam now told that the Corriere della Sera and the Stampa both dealt adequately with the Budget. I am glad to......

One Of The Bygone Features Of London Life On Which

I look back with the wistful pathos of middle-age is the window-box. Why has it gone, and when did it go ? Perhaps the War killed it. Perhaps it is that in days when the great......

It Is Always Unfortunate When Civil Servants, National Or...

get dragged into the papers by name as centres of controversy. But since that fate has befallen Dr. Ludwig Rajeliman in connexion with the Japanese "Hands Off China" declaration......

A Spectator's Notebook T He Spectacle Of Lord Beaverbrook...

Herbert Samuel clasping New Zealand in a joint embrace, and Lord Beaverbrook's papers enthusiastically acclaim- ing Sir Herbert as " one of us," is one of the brighter spots in......

I Suppose That To The End Of Time There Will

be people coming along to claim they have seen the Indian Rope Trick. The correspondence columns of The Spectator and other journals provide confirmation enough of that. But the......