Lord Schuster, As Secretary To The Lord Chancellor For Over
thirty years, should be heard with respect in anything he says about the appointment of J.P.s. One thing he has just said is that they ought not to be appointed under the age of......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE question of a memorial to President Roosevelt in Westminster Abbey is, I gather, still unsettled. Though I have a far greater admiration for that great man than many of his......
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My well-known admiration for academic distinction has led to my acquisition of a letter whose heading I find very impressive. It runs PROFESSOR A. FREEMAN LL.D., Litt.D.,......
The Transition From The Last Paragraph To This May Not
be apparent, but it exists all right. The link is degrees—Professor Freeman's and Mr. A. M. Low's. I see that Mr. Low, A.C.G.I.(Lond.), M.I.A.E., F.C.S., F.R.G.S.,......
Interest In The Government's Transactions In Basic...
Sir Alan Herbert has elicited the fact that the payment of £23,000 to the inventor of Basic English covers the copyright of "the Basic English Standardised Word List and......
From An Agreeable Interchange On The Subject Of London...
in the House of Commons on Monday it emerges that James II, who is in store in some locality undisclosed wel be re-erected in some locality yet to be determined (his old......
It Can Be Done T Here Are Many Luxuries Which The
British public cannot . 1 afford today, but the luxury which it can afford least of all is despair. The shock of the coal crisis threatened at first to have a depressing rather......
Some Instruction On Russia Has Reached Me, In French, From
Paris, from an unknown critic. It is addressed to the writer of a review in the Spectator (in its Daily Mail phase) of Mr. W. C. Bullitt's recent book on Russia. "You ought," it......
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