The Prime Minister's Promises
A NEW Year speech, broadcast from a holiday resi- dence, is hardly the medium through which we should expect the Prime Minister to make an important new statement of national......
I Am Greatly Impressed By The Way In Which Tshekedi
Khama, the young Bechuana chief who was temporarily suspended from his functions in 1933 on the charge of. flogging a white man, has made out his case against the transfer of......
An Authentic Explanation Of A Phrase In Current Usage Is
always welcome. One of the memories that might have been revived when Lord Riddell died the other day was the so-called troupe of " trained seals " collected round him when he "......
The Crucial Question Of When A Passenger Is Justified In
not paying his tram (or 'bus) fare is getting a little muddled in the Courts. First Sir Rollo Graham Campbell ruled 'against the London Passenger Transport Board , and in......
" By Far The Most Important Book Of This Century.'"
So, with that studied avoidance of hyperbole characteristic of the modern advertiser, a certain volume is described in the publicity pages of a journal before me. It might have......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE Hauptmann trial proceedings in the United States provide an astonishing picture of national psycho- logy. Col. Lindbergh admittedly is *a national figure. The kidnapping......
Without Comment " A '17-year-old Bermondsey Youth- Was...
Old Street to one month's imprisonment for breaking a. Belisha beacon at City Road, Finsbury."—Netes Chronicle. • (Or, as The Times more austerely puts it, " for wilfully and......
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