5 APRIL 1946, page 4

* * * The Parish Council Elections At The End

of last week seem to have produced a curious and very unusual outburst of public interest in certain regions—though only in certain regions, and only in parts of those regions.......

My Reference To A Recent Visit Of Members Of Parliament

to Heathrow, or London Airport, brings me from beyond the Tweed the question, Why not a similar visit to Prestwick? Why not"......

In Being Permitted To Resign His Office As Justice Of

the Peace after the severe strictures passed on his conduct by Mr. Justice Tucker, Mr. Howard E. Steavenson, Chairman of the Gilling East (Yorkshire) Bench, may be considered to......

The Well-informed Writer Who Carries On The " Atticus "

tradi- tion in the Sunday Times raises rather an important issue in con- nection with the appointment of Sir Arthur Street to the Vice- Chairmanship of the National Coal Board.......

One Of The Tasks Of U.n.e.s.c.o. (the United Nations...

Scientific and Cultural Organisation) will, no doubt, be to increase and develop cultural ties between nations. Meanwhile, a good deal can be done in that direction by bilateral......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I N June, 1945, Sir Malcolm Robertson resigned the chairmanship of the British Council. By now, April, 1946, the Foreign Office has got so far as to say it will soon be in a......

Nothing Has Surprised Me More In The Last Fortnight Than

the failure of the publication of the National Health Service Bill to produce any sign of the public controversy that was confidently threatened while the Bill was still......

How Much Nationalisation ?

ATIONALISATION of industry and trade has not yet gone 11 far enough to disturb the daily life of the common man. In the absence of concrete evidence of its benefits or real......