5 DECEMBER 1947, page 5

Anything That Needed To Be Said About The Three By-elections

so far declared, and a good deal more, was said in last Friday's Forum by two M.P.s and two ex-M.P.s who, considering that the talk was supposed to be unscripted, were......

* * * * There Are Some Rare People In

the world who, by their integrity, public spirit, humanity and unassuming dignity, leave everyone who meets them the better for the contact. They are all too few, and the death......

New Paths For Palestine

T HE New Zealand representative in the General Assembly of the United Nations said in the debate which preceded last Saturday's vote in favour of the partition of Palestine that......

A Spectator 's Notebook

S 0 there is to be a by-election at Wigan as well as at Camlachie. There is no likelihood of Wigan playing Labour false. The majority is so large that it may possibly be......

The First Thing To Remember About Sir Oswald Mosley Is

that what he wants above all things is publicity, and some of the daily papers which are most opposed to him are very much too ready to give him what he wants. I am not at all......

Being At The Moment Cut Off From Access To Records,

I cannot say definitely how long it is since Oxford numbered more undergraduates than Cambridge. The tendency in recent years is sufficiently demon- strated by the fact that the......

It Is Unusual For Extracts From The Proces - Verbal Of The

French National Assembly to be reproduced in the Journal of the House of Commons (an official publication whose very existence is un- familiar to most people) but it was most......