The Voter's Choice
B EFORE the next issue of the Spectator appears the votes will have been cast and the issue decided. This, then, till the time comes for comment on the result, must be our final......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE remarkable interest in art among undergraduates is, I think, something rather new in the university firma- ment. At Cambridge, Professor Nicolas Pevsner, who now holds the......
Mr. Attlee, Who Arrived In A. Car Driven By Mrs.
Attlee, said: " Without controls we could not possibly have got through."— Oxford Mail. Or without a strong hand at the wheel. JANUS.......
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Judging by letters I have received from various quarters, that preposterous institution, The Academie Internationale, alleged to have its domicile at The Hague, honoured by the......
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In these days February is not at all too early for the planning of summer holidays. Anything much later than February, indeed, may very well be too late. And obviously the ally......
A New Whitaker Is Always Something Of An Event. Most
of the matter, of course—all the essential reference sections—goes on pretty much unchanged from year to year, but there is always some- thing fresh, and because fresh......
A Friend Of Mine Whom I Will Call Lord Jorrocks,
for the good reason that that is not his name, was attending a public function recently when a hearty gentleman greeted him cordially as " Sir John," which he never had been,......
Lord Vansittart Surprises Me. In An Article In The American
Foreign Affairs he refers to " the dramatised cliche of the mid- nineteenth century that ' a diplomatist is an honest man paid to lie by his country '." Mid-nineteenth century ?......
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I hope that the dramatised version of E. M. Forster's A Room With a View, which had its trial run at the Arts Theatre at Cambridge last week, will come in due course to London.......
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