I Note That Sir Henry Chilton, Who Is Still, I
believe, the British Ambassador accredited to the Spanish Republic, is made in an interview in Wednesday's Daily Mail to refer to " the Reds in Madrid " and " the Red......
Two Items In The Law Reports Have Caught My Eye
this week. One was the eminently sensible ruling by a Divisional Court that it cannot be construed as an offence to drive over a white line at a bend of a road. No doubt if an......
A Spectator's Notebook
I N the year 1858 two persons of considerable fixity of purpose decided to be born on the same day, and since they duly carried their resolve into effect the eightieth birthdays......
The Other Eightieth Birthday I Have In Mind Is Lord
Lugard's. It is particularly apposite to mention it now, for a collection is being made of survivors of the march to Kandahar in 1880. One name has not figured there so far, for......
These Over Eighties Are A Virile Set. I Have Said
something earlier about Lord Lugard and Mrs. Sidney Webb, who will both be over eighty by Sunday. A tribute to the latter appears on a later page from Mr. Bernard Shaw, who is......
* * * * There Has Never, I Suppose, In
history been anything quite like the publicity with which Princess Juliana's pregnancy has been attended. She herself, of course, first announced it to the people of Holland......
Chartered Helps
THUS will domestic servants in the future be styled if the Advisory Council of the Domestic Services Exhibition in London has its way. They will wear a certain uniform, they......