15 JUNE 1934, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

W E all unite," said Mr. Ormsby-Gore on Saturday, "in giving Mr. Eden gratitude for what he has done all through the last two difficult years. If it had not been for him the......

The Incitement To Disaffection Bill, Commonly Known As...

Bill, might very well assume as its own the familiar epitaph on A. B. who died in infancy, " Since I was so quickly done for I wonder what I was begun for." It is true that it......

I Confess To Some Sympathy With Lady Astor's Opinion...

characteristically at question-time in the House) that if a memorial to a woman is to be put up in a royal park there are Englishwomen who have at least as much title to be......

Mrs. Meconaghey's Money, At The Embassy, Is Not A Good

play (though it would be if the third act were of anything like the quality of the first two), but its theme is singularly apposite at a moment when a recent debate in......

Dr. Heinrich Bruning, The Former German Chancellor, Has...

successful than some Continental visitors in keeping what is in fact a purely private visit purely private. I see that according to one paper he has been staying on the South......

What England Obviously Wanted At Trent Bridge Was Another...

even if his name did happen to be Lax-wood. (Baring's success at Portsmouth had its lessons.) It was irony enough that while the need of more fast bowling was being glaringly......

Strange Things Happen To Undergraduates. One Of Them At...

I notice, after a bump-supper last week, injudiciously proceeded to drive a motor-car and landed it in a tobacconist's shop. In the course of certain subsequent proceedings it......

The Ruling Of The Reich Minister For Education, In The

battle for the German child, is interesting. Hitherto the home, the school and the Hitler Youth have been competing for possession of his (or her) distracted young personality.......