5 SEPTEMBER 1947, page 5

Both The Primate Of England And The Primate Of All

England have been expressing themselves on the crisis, His Grace of York proposing that his Grace of Canterbury should invite the leaders of all political parties to a conclave......

The Power Of The Unions

N O one will be disposed to under-rate the importance of the Trades Union Congress or of the discussions at its annual Conference at Southport this week. Politics and economics,......

English Hotels Come In For Some Sharp Criticism From Time

to time, and I am glad to give hospitality to testimony in their favour, particularly when it comes from so experienced a witness as Sir Kenneth Clark. I don't think I have in......

The Absence Of Punctuation In My Third Paragraph Last Week

seems to have caused some scandal. It was intentional. A little variety and a little breathlessness is sometimes salutary. JANUS. * Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.......

I Have Not Read Ernest Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I

Have Known or its companion volumes, and I should consider it iconoclasm to throw doubt on their veracity myself. But Mr. Bergen Evans, an American writer who devotes his book,......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE brief visit of the party of American Congressmen to this country is very welcome, though nothing could be more lamentable than that it should synchronise with one - of the......

If We Are Going To Go On Keeping German Prisoners

here when they have done their part in getting in the harvest (which we mani- festly ought not to), we ought at any rate to do what is possible to make the rest of their......