Storm Over Persia -
T HE decision of the Persian Parliament to nationalise the oil industry has been greeted in this country with as much astonishment as alarm. Yet it would have been much more......
Thanks To The Working Of Those Mysterious Digits That Com-
prise the Golden Number, Easter falls this year almost, if not quite, as early as it is possible for it to fall—for extensive as its vagaries are, they are not completely......
I Have More Than Once Expressed My Envy Of Those
enterprising persons who collect impassive degrees as easily as picking primroses. A case heard at Manchester Assizes on Monday throws gratifying light on the process. It was an......
This Is A Tolerant Country, But I Confess To Some
astonishment at its acquiescence in the present food fiasco. It is not merely that Mr. Webb's persistence in haggling with the Argentine— right enough, no doubt, up to a......
It Was Natural That The Ceremony Of The Transfer Of
Mr. Bernard Shaw's cottage at Ayot St. Lawrence to the National Trust last Saturday should attract a considerable crowd ; for though many had to walk in weather that can best be......
A Spectator's Notebook N 0 One Could Charge Mr. Churchill...
a deficiency of audacity, and there was a certain entertainment in those passages of his broadcast last Saturday in which he deplored with the utmost gravity the party......
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