5 JULY 1946, page 4

A High Authority On India Remarked This Week That There

was little hope of a communal settlement while the two leaders on either side remained alive. Since Mr. Gandhi has just announced that he proposes to live to be 150 this......

It Is Lamentable That The National Trust Should Have To

be begging at all, and alarming that Dr. G. M. Trevelyan, the chairman of the Trust's Courses Committee, should have to use the word crisis on the - present state of its......

Whether Mr. Herbert Morrison Intended His Broadcast On...

to be first and foremost a eulogy of private enterprise may well be doubted ; but that it was first and foremost a eulogy of private enterprise is beyond all question. Trade by......

A Spectator's Notebook

j T is almost incredible that no record exists of • the number of identity cards in issue at the present time. Identity cards were instituted in 1939, and among the uses for......

Rationed Bread

T HREE questions were dominant in the debate on bread- rationing in the House of Commons on Wednesday— whether the rationing of bread could be proved to be essential ; how long......

I Am Indebted To My Friend And Contemporary Ovid (my

longevity secures me an abnormal number of contemporaries) for an exhorta- tion which at the moment seems apposite. Duly Englished (by Viscountess Grey of Falloclon) it runs: 0......

The White Paper On Broadcasting Policy Is A Curious...

Part of it is, indeed, concerned with policy (if to do nothing can properly be described as policy), but part obviously emanated not from Government but from B.B.C. sources, and......