24 FEBRUARY 1950, page 5

* * * * The Attempt, Fortunately Unsuccessful, Of A

Lagos native to assassinate Mr. Hugh Mackintosh Foot, the Chief Secretary of Nigeria, brings the whole family into the glare of that fierce light which beats upon a Foot. Mr. H.......

* * * * Low Has Now Been Adorning The

Daily Herald's pages instead of the Evening Standards for three weeks. I wonder if he feels satisfied with the change. Low, of course, is always Low, and in his own field......

"murderer Lewis Wolfe, 42, Demanded Two Bananas And...

the Messiah' in Court yesterday. As a result Judge Louis Goldstein declined to sentence him to death in the electric chair." —New York Herald Tribune. The bananas, or the......

* * "we Have Had There [the House Of Lords]

a very great leader for the past four and a half years—Christopher Addison ; but he is eight, and we have got to strengthen them."—Lord Alexander as reported by the Manchester......

* * * * When I Received, As Pendant To

my recent story of the Holy Family, the rendering (as depicted by an infant artist) "take the young child and his mother and flea into Egypt," I filed it doubt- fully for future......

The King's Government

T t‘ HE King's Government must be carried on " ; and carried on it will be, no matter what Administration may be in office next week. That still remains undis- closed as these......

A Spectator's Notebook

F ROM time to time I am consulted about private news-sheets, obtainable by subscription only, and claiming to supply information of high importance to persons who in their sim-......

I Bear Of Another (presumably Grateful) Recipient Of The...

of Ph.D. of the Academic Internationale. He is "the well-known psychologist and hypnotic healer, Mr. Boris Dmtri, of Park Crescent Terrace, Brighton." Mr. Dmtri has also just......

There Is Something Rather Agreeable About The British...

under-statement: Here (that is to say, in the Divorce Court) is a gentleman who In 1937, at the age of 21, took a substantial interest in a garage, and married the daughter of a......

* * * * I Have Not Seen Queen Mary's

carpet. One reason is that when someone I know went to look at it on Monday the waiting-time at that stage of the queue was an hour and a quarter. This is an interesting......

Not Tattler, But Tackler. See This Column A Fortnight Ago.

With heartfelt thanks to several correctors. JANUS.......