A Spectator 's Notebook Tt Looks As If The House
of Lords will get more than its normal share of attention this session. On Tuesday it starts towards its critical decision on the Bill, sent up from the Commons, cutting the......
Supporters Of The Outram Derivation Of " Tram " Are
rallying round. "The rail haulage paths to the mines," one of them writes, "were called Outram-ways '—shortened to tramways ; hence, by a natural inference, the thing that ran......
It Is As Well To Realise How We Are Governed.
I have been looking into , the number of Statutory Rules and Orders—i.e., Orders emanating from various Government Departments and having the force of law — which were issued......
Pattern For Europe
M UCH will have been said about the future of Europe in the House of Commons, particularly by Mr. Bevin and Mr. Churchill, before these lines are read. Meanwhile a great deal......
Adjured To Insist That Olympiad Does Not Mean Olympian...
I readily comply. Even The Times, it appears, has spoken of the King opening the fourteenth Olympiad. An Olympiad was (and nothing has happened to give it any other......
Mr. Mackenzie King, I Read In The Evening Standard, If
he stays in office till April 21st, will have been a Prime Minister longer than any man in the history of the Commonwealth, for "he will beat Sir Horace Walpole's record of zo......
It Is All Very Well To Have Expectation About Railway
improvements excited by two distinguished railway officials, but when you realise that they are only voicing their dreams we are left very much where we were. Everyone will......
A Lady Who Kept Two Cows To Provide Milk For
her household found that on occasions she had a surplus. Being conscientious by nature, she wrote to the Ministry of Food to ask how she should dispose of it. The answer she......
I Hope That The Pilgrimage Of M. Trygve Lie Round
Europe in search for a site for the next session of the United Nations Assembly is little more than a formality. For by every criterion that can be applied Geneva has claims......
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