5 JUNE 1947, page 5

The Indias Of Tomorrow T He Indian Problem Is Not Yet

solved. To sound a warning, by no means a jarring, note is necessary prudence. Next Monday's meeting of the Moslem League will be critical. That Mr. Jinnah should have accepted......

This Has Been A Good Year For Lord Simon Of

Wythenshawe. A lifelong Liberal, he stood (unsuccessfully), when still Sir Ernest Simon, as an Independent at the Combined English Universities by.- election. A little later he......

A Spectator 's Notebook I T Is Sometimes Wise And Sometimes

unwise to reprint the speeches of public men. They date inevitably, for they are and must be directed to the problems of the moment. The greater the orator, moreover, the more......

He Is A Most Valuable Member Of The Community, More

perhaps in the provinces than in London, and with the pressure of the multiple shops and the co-operative societies, his struggle to maintain a footing gets harder and harder.......

Tribute Should Be Paid Where Tribute Seems To Be Justly

due. I heard this week of a striking impetus to coal-production. The manager of one of our larger mines happened—I don't know how or why—to see a performance of the Moral......

It Should Not Entirely Escape Notice That Mr. Emanuel...

is now chairman of the Labour Party. I doubt whether all members of the party itself feel enthusiastic about the fact, but it will not *Hutchinson. 12s. 6d. necessarily add......

* * * * Mr. Wallace's Hot-gospeller Tour Through The

West and Middle- West is variously appraised. There have been huge audiences (but audiences are as easily collected in America as in any country in the world), and by all......

Good Selectivity Is, I Believe, A Supreme Virtue In A

wireless set. It has its virtues equally in the publisher's advertisement. A week or two ago a Spectator reviewer summed up a discriminatingly appre- ciative review of Mr.......

I Realised A Little Too Late That I Was At

fault last week in saying that Queen Mary was the first British consort of a British king since the sixteenth century. There was, of course, Anne Hyde, the first wife of James......