25 JUNE 1948, page 5

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE House of Commons, which sees Mr. Churchill in varying aspects, saw and heard him at the top of his form in the debate on the Third Reading of the Representation of the......

Every Motorist Will Welcome The Recommendation Of The...

Transport's Ferries Committee that of the 44 vehicular ferries now in use in Britain the 39 which levy tolls should in future be free. The proposal is strictly logical. A ferry......

In Referring Last Week To The Vicissitudes Of Various...

evening papers I inadvertently spoke of Lord Northcliffe founding the Evening World in 1929. I should, of course, have written the Northcliffe organisation (then headed by the......

Danger In Germany

D ESPITE the fact that Russian reactions in Berlin are accen- tuating the already grave difficulties of unified economic control there, it will not be an easy matter for later......

The Descent Of The 50o West Indian Workers On Great

Britain raises problems that will become acute if the example of the pioneers is widely followed. There is a lot to be said for the immi- grants. They appear to be men of a good......

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Speech Day season is just now in full swing, and I am left doubtful whether the greater sum of human suffering is concentrated in the unhappy person who has to hand out prizes......

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It is useful to have it established in the Courts, as it was in a case heard before Mr. Justice Pritchard on Tuesday, that it is no libel to call a man a Fascist. But in fact......