15 AUGUST 1947, page 5

A Spectator's Notebook I Heard The Beginning Of The Prime...

speech on Sunday night, and for some reason woke up in time to hear the end of it as well. That is not necessarily a depreciation of the speech. Other orators have had the same......

The Death Of General Denikin Carries The Mind Back To

the old, confused, half-forgotten Russian conflicts that filled the first year or two after the revolutions of 1917, and were rather largely mis- represented by the......

Tuesday's Debate On The Refusal Of The Editor And Lobby

Cor- respondent of the Evening News to answer a question put to them by the Committee of Privileges regarding the identity of an M.P. who had given the paper information raised......

The New Edition Of Ashley Courtenay's Hotel Guide, Let's...

Awhile, which comes to me each year, always inspires a certain exhilarating holiday feeling, even if I have just had a holiday. This time the pages are rather more closely......

The Recess And The Crisis

A S the economic crisis moves to its climax Parliament adjourns —the House of Commons for nine and a half weeks, while the Lords, with far more wisdom and public spirit, are to......

One Of The Few Drawbacks To Flying Is That On

a journey of five or six hundred miles as much time is wasted in preliminaries and sequels as is spent in the air. To get to Geneva takes about two hours and a half flying-time......