25 MAY 1934, page 6

* * * * The League Of Nat Ions Union

has thrown itself into some- thing formidable in undertaking, as I believe it has decided to, a national referendum on various questions connected with the League of Nations.......

It Is Rather Unfashionable In These Days To Be Going

about with an appendix inside one. But it is only a comparatively recent fashion. Most laymen, . if asked, when the first operation for the removal of an appendix was carried......

It Really Looks As Though -covent Garden Were More Bent

on irritating than on gratifying the public. There must, I suppose, be some profound reason why the programme should never be announced for more than a week ahead, if that. The......

Occasional Biographies : I.-dr. Benes

D R. EDUARD BENES, Foreign Minister of Czecho- slovakia, will be fifty on Monday, and the event is to be suitably celebrated in his own country. Some time ago I was talking......

The. Decision Of Vassar To Allow Its Students To Marry

and continue as students raises a good many interesting questions. The avowed reason is the number of secret marriages (and possibly of less regular unions) contracted as things......

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HE death of Willis Abbot of. the Christian Science Monitor is a loss to journalism of the highest type everywhere. After an apprenticeship on various American papers—the......

" Japanese Foreign Office Officials Say That The Formal...

of Manchukuo by the Republic of Salvador —which is a member of the League of Nations—eon- stitutes one of the high lights of international ' history, and is worthy to be long......