There Is Something Very Nearly Pathetic In The Implacable...
of the Liberals to rush down a steep place into the sea. Here, for example, is that hard-headed financier, Sir Andrew McFadyean, suggesting, apparently in all seriousness, that......
The Vital Partnership
T HERE is some relaxation of the tension over Korea. That, and no more than that, can bp said at this moment. Mr. Attlee's statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday added......
Like Many Other People, I Have Been Reading The New
Boswell Journal (reviewed in the Spectator last week) The exciting thing about it, of course, is its discovery a hundred and seventy years after it was written, at Fettercairn......
A Spectator's Notebook N 0 One Who Knew Oliver Stanley Could
hear of his death without very real grief. Few men in public life can have made fewer enemies—if indeed, he had a single enemy in the world. The wittiest speaker, without......
The Following Pieces Of Information Have Been Extracted...
Ministers by the industrious Mr. Nigel Birch : A film called "How to Make-a Telephone Call" was made by the Central Office of Information, at a cost of £6,000 "to impress on......
We Are Still Getting Bernard Shaw's Last Words. The Very
last work, so it is said, that he prepared for print comes all too appositely for use as an ideal substitute for a Christmas card. I say all too appositely, because, having......
So Now You Know
WEST "SOLIDLY SPLIT" ON THE FAR EAST Manchester Guardian, Dec. 11th. "The Western Powers are maintaining a reasonable attitude, and are not revealing any rift among themselves."......
In A Speech At Lowestoft Last Sunday, Mr. R. R.
Stokes, the Minister for Works, affirmed that " all authorities who have written, even at this early stage, about the last war say that without doubt the idiotic declaration......
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