An Odd Thing Happened To Mr. De Pontino. He Filled
up a football pools coupon correctly, and should have netted £26,750. But the envelope in which he posted his coupon got caught up in the folds of a parcel in the course of the......
Germany's Opportunity
W ITH the promulgation of the Occupation Statute for Western Germany a new chapter for the bulk of the German people should open. Not, unfortunately, for all Germany. Out of the......
To Say That Civil Servants Are, As Result Of An
internal report by a competent committee, to be taught manners would be most unjust. Civil servants have perfectly good manners. But they are often rather unimaginative manners,......
A Spectator 's Notebook T He House Of Commons Listened With
little less than astonish- ment to a new Sir Stafford Cripps on Tuesday night. A greater contrast than between the speech with which the Chancellor opened the Budget debate and......
The Appeal Heard And Dismissed By The House Of Lords
on Friday (confirming the finding of the Court of Appeal, which had confirmed the finding of Mr. Justice Jenkins) is likely to take its place in the select category of leading......
I Am Glad To See That The American War Criminal
court at Nurem- berg has given a fairly clean sheet to Herr von Weiszacker, State Secretary in Germany from 1938 to 1943, whom I used to know reasonably well. That, in spite of......
How Odd That We All, Or So Many Of Us,
have forgotten the other Sir Stafford—till Mr. George Benson recalled him on the second night of the Budget debate. The Hansard record reads thus: " Of Sir Stafford [Hon.......
By The Death Of Lawrence Hammond The World Loses A
notable historian, a notable Liberal in something much larger than the pure party sense, and a man of unswerving intellectual integrity. He came of a fine Oxford vintage—among......
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