18 OCTOBER 1946, page 5

It Is Of Some Interest To Observe That Germans Are

joining the French Foreign Legion in considerable numbers, and that the Legion is quite ready to welcome them. Indeed, a receiving-centre has been opened at Kehl, on the German......

So Our New Coins Are To Be Not Nickel But

cupro-nickel. That leaves Canada, where nickel comes from, a little discontented. But every cloud has its cupro-nickel lining, and South Africa, where copper comes from, ought......

It Is Hard Lines On Mr. Bellenger That The First

question of any importance he has had to handle as Secretary of State should be the sentences on the paratroopers at Kluang. His first statement, before the report on the legal......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HERE will be general relief that the long-drawn ordeal of Nurem- berg is over at last—the end synchronising, by a strange coinci- dence, almost to an hour with the conclusion......

After Paris

M R. MOLOTOV has spoken his last word at the Paris Con- ference and it was the same as his first. The treaty drafts as drawn up by the Council of Foreign Ministers should not be......

Every Time He Speaks In Public General Eisenhower Makes It

clear how much more he is than a great commander. His response at the luncheon after he had beW given his honorary degree at Cam- bridge (in company with Field Marshal......

The Death Of Sir Percy Bates Cast An Inevitable Gloom

over the sailing of the ' Queen Elizabeth.' News of it was received with special regret by the large number of Members of both Houses of Parliament who went to Southampton on......