15 JULY 1949, page 5

* * * * It Is A Fairly Far Cry

back to 1911, but a good many people must remember the famous Sidney Street siege of that year, when a battle took place between two desperate gunmen established in a house......

The Dock Strike And Beyond

G RAVE as the immediate consequences of the London dock strike are, the deeper causes of a stoppage immeasurably disastrous to the national economy raise issues graver still.......

A Spectator's Notebook

H AS the Hiss trial ended or not ? The trial that has been in progress for over a month at Washington has certainly ended, the jury having failed to agree and letting it be......

Various Persons Who Were So Bent On Getting A Royal

Commission on the Press appointed and arc so palpably discomfited at the outcome of their efforts, are, I am bound to admit, putting up a vast bluff with immense industry. The......

A Note-heading In Front Of Me Wakes Memories Of The

London College of Theology, the Inter-Collegiate University, the Universite Internationale, and other similar bodies regarding which I possess a well-stocked dossier (including......