7 JANUARY 1949, page 9

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Anything, it is said, can attract a London crowd. Even so I find the drawing-power of the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square a little mystifying. It is a fine tree ; the......

A Spectator's Notebook T He Statement That Mr. Ivor...

holding two minor Ministerial offices in the Labour Government, has now com- pleted his pilgrimage from Labour, through independence, to Con- servatism, but does not propose to......

Some Student Of Manners Should Write A Short (or For

that matter a long) monograph on fish and chips. The subject could be treated from many angles. There is, for example, a high aesthetic satisfac- tion to be derived from......

Janus Is My Name And Mildness Is My Nature. It

is therefore with grief for human depravity rather than anger at it that I touch again on a subject I have mentioned here before. General Eisenhower's book was published on this......

Someone, Presumably Mr. Colin Coote, Since He Is...

the arrangement and the introduction, has had the good idea of collecting observations and comments from Mr. Winston Churchill's numerous books and presenting them in series......

Europe Faces The Future

T HE first impression given by the two reports on European recovery published this week is that the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation is facing the future and not......