5 NOVEMBER 1954, page 6

Occupational Hazard

Sheer sloth, rather than the deliberation proper to the confection of jewelled prose, has hitherto saved me from the ravages of writer's cramp. I had indeed, in so far as I......

The Loiti Arm Of The Law

The following paragraph appeared in a recent issue of the Kentish Express: ' KEY PRESENTED TO HEAD GIRL—New teak entrance doors presented by the School Parents' Association to......

The Lady Vanishes

relate the simpler of the two. A young couple took with them on a motor tour in Spain an elderly and prosperous aunt, partly out of kindness and partly because she agreed to pay......

Royal Flush

The Times on Wednesday quoted a Redter report of the death in California of Mr. Otto de Bourbon Hapsburg, a pretender to the throne of France, 'who claimed that he was, a......

Household Hint

The postman, gliding out of the mist-wreathed woods behind my house, dismounted with a certain asperity from his bicycle: be could almost have been said to flounce. It was, he......

The Ruses Of Peace

It seems to me a good thing that Germany is not going to rearm from under the counter. I have been reading the tran- script of the Nuremberg Trials and such documents as were......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE Germans are prepared, not altogether without reason, to take the British seriously. To them the failure, dur- ing one month, of our Government and our people (for once......

The Sky's The Limit

I T is, or should be, obvious that the dockers should earn more and have a higher standard of living. That state- ment arises from the very nature of the problem of production......