I Find The Policy Of The London County Council, And
of some other councils, in the matter of the admission of primary school boys to public schools hard to understand. When the Fleming Report was published, urging that the public......
The Proprietors Of The Times Have Been Unexpectedly...
appointing a new editor. In one sense the choice of Mr. W. F. Casey was unexpected, for it was not thought likely that a man of sixty would be put in the editorial chair. But......
I Doubt Very Much Whether There Has Been Any More
admirable contribution to the literature of the Palestine controversy than the little booklet Is This The Way ?, by Walter Zander (Gollancz, No Jew certainly, not even Dr.......
A Spectator's Notebook T He Prospect Of A United Nations...
(it has opened at Geneva this week) on the Freedom of the Press including 67 nations, some of them represented by between thirty and forty dele- gates and advisers, is a little......
As First Civil Service Commissioner, Sir Percival...
qualifications for appraising the candidates for the Civil Service, and what he has just been saying about them is, on the face of it, disquieting. But his verdict that "40 per......
Mr. E. H. Keeling Had Collected A Good Many Instructive
specimens of "Government English" as basis for his attack on that form of jargon in an adjournment debate last week. Some of the examples tax credulity a little. Has anyone......
Europe And Italy
T HE timing of the Western Powers' proposal that the free territory of Trieste should be returned to Italy is important. Britain, the United States and France have made their......
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