After Nearly A Year's Delay, The Name Of The New
chairman of the British Council is, I understand, to be announced within a......
From Hundreds Of Editors, Writers And Officials...
of a new issue of the International Who's Who (Allen and Unwin, 3os.) every spring must evoke a sigh of relief and satisfaction. For where else can the essential particulars......
The Final Cession Of Sarawak To Great Britain Is...
in itself, but the method of it is less happy. All that matters is the interest of the native population, which after a hundred years of mainly benevolent autocracy of the......
The Choice For India
T HE reluctance of both the principal Indian parties to pass an immediate verdict on the constitutional settlement outlined by the Cabinet Mission may be variously interpreted.......
One Interesting Parallel Between This Year's Negotiations...
those which led to the .adoption of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms in 1919 is worth noting. The enquiry in India twenty- nine years ago was carried out by a Cambridge Secretary......
This Year's Report Of The Friends Of The Lake District
makes rather depressing reading. One would have imagined that there would be no one to disagree with the over-riding necessity of preserving un- touched the beauties and natural......
A Spectator 's Notebook
T HERE was no question about the opinion of the House of Com- mons about the proposed—indeed already decreed—destruction of German war memorials when the matter was raised in......
A Slim Little Volume Called Simply The Cavendish...
published by the Cambridge University Press at half-a-crown, tells an astonishing story, such as I suppose no other university could equal or even approach, of scientific......