5 MARCH 1948, page 5

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I observe that one of the Smith's Prizes at Cambridge has been awarded to the author of an essay on "The Topology of Lattices," while the Raleigh Prize is secured by "The......

A Spectator 's Notebook E Veryone Who Knew Robin...

will deeply deplore his untimely death. Though his appearance before he left England for the voyage that was to restore him to health shocked his friends, no one, I think, had......

A Waste-paper Salvage Drive Is Said To Be In Progress,

though I see no signs of its working itself up to any great fury. However, it is all to the good ; any amount of paper is burned or otherwise destroyed that might well be pulped......

The Prospect That A Discussion Of The Hugh Lane Pictures,

to which I made some reference a few weeks ago, will take place on the Easter adjournment motion in the House of Commons means that considerably more time can be given to it......

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Having a certain personal prejudice against the imprisonment of journalists, I am glad to see that the editor and a reporter of a paper in New York State, who were sentenced......

The Challenge Of Prague

T HE revolution in Czechoslovakia is running its appointed course, and the world has had time for full reflection on it. In the land of T. G. Masaryk, whose volume The Making of......

When A Stipendiary Magistrate Uses His Position To...

attempt to blacken, the character of a witness who gives evidence in his court, what remedy or redress is at the witness's command ? The answer, I suppose, is None. When Mr.......