6 FEBRUARY 1948, page 5

When The New Yorker Pronounces Something To Be Good I

conclude that it is good. That goes (as the New Yorker would say) for MPF. The initials stand for Multi-Purpose Food, a compound based on soya bean but containing a good deal......

Changing Parliament

I N the light of the statement made by Viscount Addison in the House of Lords on Wednesday it is at least possible that by the time the next Parliament assembles not one but......

Is The Battle For National Parks Won After All? It

has been a long enough battle in all conscience, but the Hobhouse Report, with its recommendations for a National Parks Commission, and local National Parks Committees to look......

Lord Baldwin's Famous Unsigned Letter To The Times In 1917,

stating that he was handing a fifth of his fortune to the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been much quoted since his death. In an article on Lord Baldwin in the Cambridge Review......

I Approached This Paragraph In A Spirit Of Deep Concern.

Someone had told me that my valued and respected colleague Harold Nicolson had used the term " blue print " wrong. That, fortunately, is only half true. What Mr. Nicolson did......

" The Sutton's Hospital In Charterhouse Bill Was Read A

second time" said the daily papers on Tuesday, if indeed they said as much. You could hardly expect them to say more. Yet, as sometimes happens in measures of this kind, the......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE restoration of harmony in the House of Lords on Wednesday was a brief, dignified and cordial proceeding. There was the usual excess of corporations over accommodation, and......