A Spectator's Notebook
T HERE is an aspect of the present emergency on which too little emphasis has been laid—that is the vast increase of responsibility thrown inevitably on local authorities every-......
From Estimates Of The Length Of Herr Hitler's Speech (such
as were admitted to this column last week) we can now pass to hard facts. An assiduous adder (or, if you will, add-er) has acquired what was apparently a complete verbatim......
* -* It Is A Tragic Thing That Mr. Frank
Melland should have been killed by a train less than five weeks after his appoint- ment as Secretary of the Royal African Society. His last piece of work there must have been......
Publishers' Advertisements Are A Class Of Literature...
Take this, for example, on the leading volume eulogised in a nicely displayed half-double in the last issue of the Sunday Times: "A remarkable subject—and the book is as remark-......
Two Million Unemployed
T HE black coffin of the unemployed has become a familiar object in London streets. Actually, the demonstrations of the National Unemployed Workers Movement are not likely to......
In View Of All The Controversies About The Virtues And
vices of alcohol as a food, as a stimulant, as a sedative, or purely as a beverage, it is something of a comfort to have a dis- passionate official pronouncement on the subject......
I Understand That The Government Has Been Convinced Of The
soundness of the proposal for a system of camps as a partial solution of the problem of war-time billeting, and that an announcement on the subject may be expected immediately.......
Major-general Sir Reginald Ford May Possess Qualities Of...
superior order to all other living major-generals. I do not dismiss that possibility and am prepared to be con- vinced. But nothing less than that could explain the apparent......
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