24 JUNE 1938, page 6

The American Spy Trial May Throw Considerable Light On The

activities of the German Secret Police outside Germany. Already it is being suggested that the absence of two witnesses who had professed themselves willing to give evidence is......

Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Who Went To Hamburg Last Week

to receive from the University the Shakespeare prize, awarded each year to the British composer whose works are of most " present importance to Germany," came back to England......

The Government Is Often Criticised, No Doubt Justly, For Its

failure to make adequate preparations against what we seem to have agreed to refer to euphemistically as " a state of emergency," but in some fields at any rate a good deal more......

The Oxford Group Has Been Celebrating Dr. Buchman's...

with characteristic vigour. Among the celebrations I have noticed have been a function given by the Mayor and Mayoress of West Ham (or was it Poplar ?), a West End dinner with a......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE debates on the Coal Bill in the House of Lords raise some rather important questions of principle. Everyone who has followed them realises that the peers opposing the Bill,......

Castle Howard Occupies A Sufficiently Notable Place Among...

houses of England to make inaccuracies about its history undesirable. And there is, I think, an inadvertent but rather serious inaccuracy embodied in the paragraph in the......

The Defence Of Britain T He Barbarity Of The Recent Air

raids in China and in Spain have horrified the civilised world, but more than anyone perhaps the English-speaking peoples. Yet this country at least has not learned the lesson......