7 DECEMBER 1945, page 4

Oxford Has Always Had Rather An Advantage Over The Sister

university in the matter of detective-stories—no mean consideration in these days. There is Miss Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night and Mr. Masterman's An Oxford Tragedy—those, at......

It Had Been Generally Supposed That The Appointment Of Sir

John Boyd Orr to the Directorship of the Food and Agricultve Organ- isation would involve his resignation of his seat as one of the Members for the Scottish Universities. The......

Lord Stansgate Is Acting Wisely In Ordering An Immediate...

into the indefensible attempt of some local Air Force commander to get possession of the original of a letter written by an aircraftsman to The Grantham Journal. In view of the......

A Spectator's Notebook

W ITH the sudden death of Lord Lang of Lambeth a great figure passes from public life. Scholarship, eloquence, sincerity, breadth of mind—all these and many other qualities were......

Someone Complained In The House Of Commons The Other Day

that while the Hous f. contained some seventy lawyers, it included not one scientist. That sounds on the face of it a little anomaldus, but I am not very sure, all the same,......

What Record Of The Nuremberg Trial—perhaps The Greatest...

in the history of the world—is to be left to posterity? I doubt if anyone has begun to think much about that yet, but it is quite time someone did. Already verbatim reports of......

Some Remarkable Figures Were Given By The Colonial...

the House of Commons on Wednesday. Asked how many Jews had emigrated from Great Britain to Palestine in the period 1920-1945, Mr. Hall gave the total for the years 1922-1944,......

In Discussing The Proposed Parliamentary Delegation To...

House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. Evelyn Wallcden asked that the delegation should contain a strong trade union element to establish contact with Indian trade unionists. The......

The Opposition's Attack

B Y the time these words are read the two-day censure debate in the House of Commons will have run its course and ended in a division which will mean precisely nothing. A......