The Selection Of The Home Secretary As Deputy-leader Of The
House of Commons is one of those appointments that will give equal satisfaction on all benches. Mr. Chuter Ede possesses precisely the combination of firmness, reasonableness......
* * * * I Have Been Looking A Little
further (metaphorically) into the dental vagaries of the islanders of Lewis. Their historic capacity to dis- pense with a dentist's attention is, I am assured, due to the fact......
A Spectator's Notebook
S IDNEY WEBB was the severed half of "we "—tragically severed in these last years since 135atrice Webb's death and his own physical affliction. As it happened, I was to have......
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Nothing could leave me colder than the letter in The Times asking for " mementoes " of the militant suffrage movement to add to a museum instituted for such purposes. Women have......
* * Local Patriotism In London, Where Every Borough Jostles
every other across purely artificial boundaries, is notoriously hard to foster, and I have watched with admiration the work the Borough Librarian of St. Pancras i doing in the......
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Application for information is rarely made here in vain. I asked last week if anyone could do what no one connected with West- minster seems able to do—throw light on the prayer......
Here Is The Kind Of Snag Which Gets In The
way of the Marshall Plan. An American Congressman asked this week in a perfectly friendly way, "You're suffering from a shortage of railway trucks, aren't you ? " "Yes." "Trucks......
If America Delays
E YES in this country are turned with anxiety and some concern towards America. So far as Western Europe is concerned, the whole immediate future hangs on the prospects of the......
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