5 JANUARY 1934, page 10

Turkey, I Note, Had The Metric System Imposed On It

(very beneficially) on January 1st by a stroke of the Ghazi's pen. Dictators can do that.. Here it will no doubt take another generation to get the 24-hour time......

The Archbishop Of Canterbury's Impressive Appeal For...

League of Nations in his broadcast sermon on New Year's Eve was evidence of a quality of leadership of which there is all too little sign in other quarters where it might......

A Spectator's Notebook M R. Anthony Eden's Promotion To...

of Lord Privy Seal is a welcome recognition of merit, but perplexing, none the less. The office regularly carries Cabinet rank, but is not to in this case. There are two fairly......

Education Right And Wrong D Uring The Present Week...

more than fifty educational associations are holding their annual joint conference in London, and pooling the results of their experience. Many of them may have been bewildered......

Mr. H. G. Wells, I Understand, Is Engaged Not On

an autobiography, but on an experiment in auto- biography. The distinction is subtle, but it exists. If you sit down to write your life's history you sit down and write it—and......

Whether Schoolboys Of Today Are Still Brought Up As I

was (for my great good) on Page's Horace I am not very certain. Whether, if they are, they will have noted and approved the distinction conferred on Dr. T. E. Page in being......