Thanks To The Help Of Readers I Was Able Last
week to identify the author of the prayer used regularly at the beginning of each day's proceedings in the Lords and Commons as Mr. Speaker Yelverton, who held office in 1597-8.......
Some Of The Controls Under Which We Have The Pleasure
of living lead to absurdities past belief, but evidence given in Stratford Court last week goes a little beyond anything I have seen recorded yet. The Borough Accountant of......
A Spectator's Notebook
N O passage in Mr. Eden's speech on Tuesday was more loudly cheered, by Labour members equally with Conservatives, than that devoted to " the performance of the hon. Member for......
The Question Whether Smithson, The Bevin Boy Miner,...
released a week or two before the expiration of his three-year term of service, to enable him to sail with the Test team to the West Indies, is not quite as simple as it seems.......
The Storm Signal
T HE Government, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons on Tuesday, was presenting it with a balanced programme for the session. His words were aptly chosen. There is......
The Changes In The Foreign Service Announced This Week Are
entirely such as could be desired. Sir Oliver Harvey is an almost self- designated successor to Mr. Duff Cooper in Paris, so completely is he equipped by personality and......
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