10 MAY 1935, page 6

But If Monday Was Before All Things The King's Day

it deserves hardly less to be known as radio day. Never before, I imagine, has wireless more triumphantly fulfilled its function as the servant of the people. It was the servant......

As In Private Duty Bound (though There Is No Need

to go further into that) I" must salute the historic •city of Plymouth on its acquisition of a Lord Mayor. The" mayors of Plymouth go back to the thirteenth century or......

Mr. Kipling's Patriotism

M R. RUDYARD KIPLING, speaking at the annual dinner of the Royal Society of St. George last Monday, deplored the loss of ancestral virtues - which resulted, he supposed, from......

In Meeting The Lords And Commons In Westminster Hall On

Thursday, the King, it is stated, was making a departure from all precedent. Was Charles I the last sovereign - who figured in a State ceremonial—how tragically different......

Whether It Becomes Me To Question A Statement In A

Spectator leading article is perhaps rather doubtful. All the same—did General Monk ever fight Charles I? Strictly speaking, I believe not. He fought for Cromwell; there is no......

A Spectator's Notebook

IF I could not be in St. Paul's Cathedral on Monday there is nowhere I would sooner have been than where I was—in a village church. I doubt -whether -the spirit of the......

Without Comment The Enthusiasm Of The English Crowd Is Not,

of course, to be compared with the ebullient rapture with which the appearance of the Leader is greeted at gather.; ings in Germany." Kreuz Zeitung. (" The third Nationalist......