5 JANUARY 1951, page 8

Let No One Say There Is Not Such A Thing

as the official type of mind. Someone made the sensible suggestion that instead of one long queue for taxis behind one long barrier at Waterloo there should be several openings......

A Spectator's Notebook

W ITH Australia's celebration of the first half-century of her existence as a federation, and New Zealand's of the centenary of the Canterbury settlement, it it perhaps relevant......

New Year's Resolution

AL L thoughtful people have known for months that a new time of effort and hardship was at hand, but neither Government nor the governed have been quite ready to put the new......

The King's Reference To Pilgrim's Progress In His...

has, I am interested (but not surprised) to find, stimulated substantially the sales of a classic which has always been a steady seller. King George spoke of a book " much loved......

Moving With That Considered Deliberation Proper To A...

review, The Nineteenth Century and After has decided, in this first month of the second half of the twentieth century, to call itself—nothing less than The Twentieth Century. I......

" Mr Attlee On Tests Of 1951." — The Times.

And he didn't so much as mention cricket. JMus.......

Having Always Held That There Should Be Room For An

inter- university journal, which should at a reasonable price deal with the activities, aims and problems of undergraduates everywhere, I shall watch with interest the future of......

I Warmly Support The Lancet's Appeal To Hospitals With "

alarming " names to get themselves re-christened. As it happens, a few days before I read the Lancet's comments I was passing the Hospital for Incurables at Putney, as I......

From The Latest Issue Of That Widely-circulated American...

may be gleaned information about King George and Queen Elizabeth which will (appropriately enough) be news to most of Their Majesties' subjects. The King, it seems, is a member......