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Peers For The People

PARLIAMENT ANGUS MAUDE, MP When the delaying power of the House of Lords was reduced to two years in 1911, the Parliament Act also reduced the maximum interval between general......

A Hundred Years Ago From The 'spectator, 6 Lune 1868—mr

Disraeli addressed on Monday an audience of agricul- turists gathered at Halton to hear him, and see an industrial exhibition fostered by the Rothschild family,'who possess very......

Nigeria's Phoney Talks

BIAFRA SIR LOUIS MBANEFO Sir Louis Mbanefo was head of the Biafran delegation to the Kampala peace talks with Nigeria. From 1959 until Biafra declared itself independent last......