Few Distinctions Have Been Better Deserved Than The...
ferred on Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, who is at the moment on his way to Indonesia. One of the most experienced of all British career diplomatists, Sir Archibald did admirable......
This Is An Important Week In The Century And A-half
old history of Hansard. In the first place it is being printed for the first time by the rotary system instead of flat-bed—i.e., on whirling cylinders which permit of a much......
The Appointment Of A King Edward Professor Of English...
ture in succession to Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch does not come before it is due, for the Chair has been vacant for some eighteen months. To maintain the standard set by Verrall......
Crisis Or Opportunity?
L AST week saw the birth of the Security Council of the United Nations ; this week the new-born infant has been offered for nourishment, not the baby foods suitable to its age,......
A Spectator 's Notebook
I T was rather a thin, but a keen and lively, House of Commons which reassembled on Tuesday after a Christmas recess of just over a month. There were the inevitable gaps. "How......
The Supply Of Candidates For The Vacant English...
is a little hanging fire. The only three officially in the field so far are Sir Ernest Simon, nominated from Manchester (and with very strong claims), Mr. H. Graham White from......
Lord Plender, Perhaps In His Later Days The Most Eminent
accoun- tant living, died with one desire unfulfilled. He had an intense admiration for the late J. A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette, and was eagerly looking for a......
There Has Been Considerable Curiosity As To Who Was...
for the brilliant idea of holding the Government's official dinner to the U.N.O. delegates in the Painted Hall at Greenwich. The function was an unqualified success and there is......
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