24 OCTOBER 1941, page 4

The Statement Made By Mr. George Hicks, Parliamentary...

the Minister of Works and Buildings, in a week - end speech, that German casualties on the Russian front amount, " on a conservative estimate," to 4,000,000, is startling , even......

Reading, As It Happened, Southey's Life Of Nelson Last...

the eve of the anniversary of Trafalgar, I came on a passage which drove home rather vividly the realities of a sailor's life at the turn of the eighteenth century. Three months......

A Spectator's Notebook

DOW STREET always has been, and no doubt always will be, the most famous police-court in the world. At this moment it is doubly denuded. The death of the Chief Magistrate, Sir......

This Recalls, Incidentally, The Remarkable Affair Of The...

Nelson himself, who predicted for himself " a peerage or Westminster Abbey," got the former (though only a vis- county, not an earldom) and instead of the latter St. Paul's. The......

Bins Labelled " Pig-food " Are Appearing In A Good

m an , villages and towns as receptacles for household waste which has the potentialities of bacon inherent in it. I am in danger of becoming a rather similar......

In Declaring That The Late Justice Brandeis Had Been Per-

haps the greatest living Jew, Dr Chaim Weizmann was pay- ing a tribute which many people, including, I suspect, Justice Brandeis, would have paid to him himself. But Brandeis......

Tojo-togo

HEN Japan changes her Government a good rule is to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. That rule seems particularly applicable to last week's supersession of Prince......