16 JULY 1937, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

" j AM afraid," said an Englishman to a Frenchman in 1 Paris last week, " that the Communist allies of your Socialist politicians will bring irretrievable ruin on your tottering......

A Recent Reference By Mr. Harold Nicolson In Parliament To

the health of the population in Germany, who are popularly supposed to be undernourished, prompted me to look up some comparative figures. I found that the mortality of infants......

On My Way Home Last Week I Found Myself Alongside

a stranger holding a ticket for a neighbouring railway station, serving a village so small that I knew every inhabitant, at least by sight. He told me his name, which appears in......

The Palestine Commission's Report Will For Many Years To...

be a locus classicus. I do not propose in writing of its findings to dip my pen in the ample supplies of gall which it provides for critics at home and abroad. An ideal which is......

Timber Reaching These Shores Today Arrives In Russian...

of the cargo reaching the great Indian ports is today carried in Japanese bottoms, and President Roosevelt has asked Congress to vote £32 millions to subsidise American shipping......

A Last Attempt

1rT is impossible as yet to know what success Mr. I Eden will have in the plan by which he has attempted to solve the deadlock in the Non-intervention Committee. In the House of......