Sir Samuel Hoare Stated At The Beginning Of The Session
that " there has been no substantial rise in the cost of living, even in recent months." But the Home Secretary must have noticed that he now has to pay more for his cup of tea......
Monday And Tuesday Were Again Taken Up With The Com-
mittee stage of the Coal Bill. The Labour Party did not press for complete abolition of the compensation clause as some of their supporters may have wished, but moved the......
Hire-purchase Abuses • It Is Gratifying That The House Of
Commons found time last Friday to carry the second reading of Miss Wilkinson's Hire-Purchase Bill. The Bill rightly aims, not at restricting the system itself, which frequently......
The Week In Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent...
may be two views on the wisdom of the Leader of the Opposition's visit to Republican Spain, but the anticipated " occasion " of Mr. Attlee's reply to back-bench Conservatives......
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The Castlecary Disaster The Scottish railway crash which occurred in a blinding snowstorm. at Castlecary, Stirlingshire, last Friday night has proved to be the worst since the......
* * * * Celibate Clergy The Six Distinguished Laymen
who have drawn up a memorial pressing on the two Archbishops the desirability of exacting from ordinands a pledge that they will not marry, except with the express consent of......
Next Week's " Spectator " " The Spectator " Will
appear next week on Thursday - instead of Friday. Among its contents will be an article by Rose Macaulay on Cruden's Concordance (which was first published zoo years ago);......
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