Having (alone In The Press, So Far As I Know)
kept battering away at the B.B.C. for months, if not years, in the face of its obdurate insistence on invariably calling Dr. Adenauer Herr AdenaUer in'its news bulletins, I am......
I See George Santayana Referred To In An American Maga-
zine as " an esthetic and a skeptic." This is the English language transatlanticised. There is no reason why it shouldn't be. Americans are as much entitled to spell in their......
The Russian Riddle
M ARSHAL STALIN has written an article of fifty pages in the magazine, Bolshevik, on Russia and the world in general; M. Malenkov, his potential suc- cessor, has discoursed to......
The Appointment Of Sir Ian Jacob To Succeeed Sir William
Haley as Director-General of the B.B.C. ought to be received with general satisfaction. If it is not, the reason can only be that Sir Ian, who has never sought publicity of any......
Out Of The Six By-elections Now Pending Only One, Wy-
combe, will cause any excitement. One seat, Sir Hugh O'Neill's in North Antrim, is safe for the Conservatives, and four- Farnworth, Cleveland, Hayes and Harlington and Small......
The Westminster City Council Has Not, As I Write, Voted
on the recommendation of its Town Planning Committee that all advertisements, particularly the illuminated signs, in Trafalgar Square shall be removed and hereafter remain......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE Prime Minister's broadcast on the King George VI Memorial campaign was both stimulating and reassuring. There was some reason for anxiety as to what form the memorial......
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