6 JUNE 1952, page 4

A Spectator's Notebook

M R. HAROLD NICOLSON's Life of King George V is in the Press and will presum- ably be published in the autumn. It is almost time to wonder who will be entrusted with the Life of......

I Suggested A Few Weeks Ago That Lord Altrincham, The

Editor of the National and English Review, would no doubt be dealing in that journal with the statements in the new volume of The History of The Times regarding his alleged part......

Confusion Between Mr. Ifor L Evans, Principal Of...

Aberystwyth, and Dr. B. Ifor Evans, Provost of University College, London, has been constant. It will now unhappily end, through the death.of Mr. Ifor L. Evans last Saturday. He......

The Talented Authoress Of Forever Amber (which I May Read

some day) has recovered some £9,000, or its equivalent in dollars, from the income-tax authorities in America on the ground that she is not a professional writer; she just......

I Wonder What Mr. Morrison Thought He Was Gaining By

telling a Danish.audience that if a Labour Government came back it would press for the admission of Communist China to the United Nations. I wonder too, incidentally, on what......

The Fire Brigade Committee Of The Durham County Council...

has been making itself notorious in other directions) is protesting against the appointment of a man from the South of England as Chief Regional Fire Officer for Durham and two......

▪ * A Gentleman Remanded On Bail At Cambridge On

a charge of assaulting an undergraduate protested vigorously against his arrest and said he had written about it to.Mr. Justice Lynskey, The People and Gilbert Harding. It seems......

The Korean Menace

I N going to Korea to face at close quarters all the grim and intractable problems that are to be found there Lord Alexander is setting a badly-needed example of realism and......

I Am Proposing To Learn To Speak, Fired To That

adventure by an admirable pamphlet on the subject by Mr. S. H. Wood, late of the Ministry of Education, written for, and published by, the National Association of Girls' and......