I Was Much Struck By The Contrasting Styles Of The
three speakers at the unveiling last Friday of the Oxford Union bust of Lord Birkenhead. There was the simple, almost homely welcome of the President, J. C. Smuts, a cousin of......
Not Long Ago Governor Roosevelt, In Private Conversa-...
that if he were elected he would be quite ready to go to Washington at once and discuss a debt-settlement arrangement with President Hoover on non-party lines. Mr. Hoover, it......
Mr. Roosevelt Will Be Universally Described As The...
of the United States. He is the thirty-first. • The mistake is made in the United States by counting Grover Cleveland twice over because there was an interval between his first......
(1) " Mr. Belloc's Book On Napoleon Will Be Followed
this week by his experience in exile." (" An Exile's Autobiography," by H. B.?) (2) " At the age of 20, everyone over 40 appears old." Both from the same page of a Sunday paper.......
The State Of British Farming Was Put To Me Graphically
a day or two ago by a man who knows the subject through and through. " The estimated value of the farms of the country, with their. stock, ten years ago was somewhere round......
The Recipient Of A Navy League Circular, Calling On Him
to demand an adequate Navy " because in the settlement of international disputes it is the right arm of the Foreign Minister," responded by asking how this doctrine was to be......
A Spectator's Notebook
I NFORMATION that reaches me from various sources regarding the Cabinet's discussions on disarmament is thoroughly depressing. There are unconcealed divisions in the Cabinet.......
Rockets And Roman Candles Banging Round Me On Saturday...
some reflections on the latest phases of the save-or-spend controversy. For there could be no better lesson in elementary economics than Guy Fawkes Day provides. Let it be......