6 JANUARY 1939, page 19

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON [Mr. Nicolson will contribute a page under this heading every week] T HAVE long been fascinated by Count Coudenhove- 1 Kalergi. It is an achievement, to start......

What Interests Me About This Patrician Aryan-asiatic Is...

much his premature ideals as his startling com- mentaries upon modern tendencies. Count Coudenhove has a habit of discovering old-fashioned ideas in the Cale- donian Market of......

It Is An Engaging Theory, But Not One Which Is

tenable. It ignores Lord Chesterfield on the one hand, and on the other the Duke of Wellington. Yet as a theme for conver- sation, it has its points. Being a sentimentalist in......

And What, In This Island, Do We Really Mean By

" gentle- man" ? The Oxford English Dictionary (which is such a help) gives seven distinct interpretations, including " An apparatus used in soldering circular pewter ware " and......

Lord Balfour Had An Original View Of The Gentleman- Concept,

with which he would toy occasionally, not so much as a considered theory, but as a theme for conversation. According to him the ideal gentleman was a pathetic fallacy on the......

Foreign Countries Are Less Exposed Than We Are To This

overt emphasis on class distinctions. True it is that a denizen of the Rue de Varennes speaks with an intonation different from that of Menilmontant. True it is also that......