A Spectator 's Notebook
HAVE always been interested in academic-institutions which grant diplomas and degrees of various kinds to persons who crave for such things and succeed in satisfying the usually......
Cricket Is A Strange Game; And Its Vagaries Are Part
of its attraction. For a recent example of the fallacies of form the recent University match is worth recalling. On 'the records of both teams the result was in Cambridge's......
It Is No Doubt Desirable In The National Interest That
the Customs and Excise should do its job efficiently. But it is dis- tinctly irritating for Britons—obviously returning, and relatively virtuous, holiday-makels—who have passed......
The Death Of Baron Ernst Von Weiszacker, No Doubt The
in- direct result of an imprisonment which many people will continue to consider unjust, leaves opinion in this and other countries still divided as to the degree of his......
" Every Man Who Reports A Conversation In Which He
himself has taken part gives ,subconsciously a twist to it to his own advantage."—Sir Charles Webster in last week's Spectator. " I quietly stuck to what I had said when Mr.......
I See That Remarks I Made About U.n.e.s.c.o. Salaries Have
evoked some comment in the correspondence columns of the Spectator. In particular, the point—a quite arguable one— is made that since the headquarters of the United Nations are......
Wrong Ways With Russia
N OT for the first time in recent history, the soundest comment on an event of importance in the international field has come from Mr. Lester Pearson, the Canadian Minister for......
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