A Spectator 's Notebook
T HE petrol muddle is getting hureasingly intolerable. First of all the Prime Minister announces early in August that the basic ration is to be cut by one-third and the......
This Paragraph Is More Appropriate Than It Seems. I Am
late in offering congratulations to Mr. J. R. M. Butler on his election to the Regius Professorship of History at Cambridge, but so was R. C. Lehmann in producing (in 1889) his......
Well, What About Our Manners? I Said A Few Weeks
ago that I thought them bad and getting worse. I still think that, but when a contradiction comes from as far afield as Istanbul, of course there must be a place for it. Two......
In April Of Last Year, When Mr. Oliver Franks, As
he then was, retired from his post as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Supply and went back to Oxford as Provost of Queen's, I quoted Bernard Shaw's pronouncement on the......
Paris To Washington
T HE sheer practical achievement of the Committee of European Economic Co-operation is a most refreshing contrast with the results of most of the other post-war conferences.......
Relations Between This Country And The Argentine Republic...
be rather of an oscillatory character, and it is really not our fault. Unhappily Argentina has one permanent complaint against us—she holds that the Falkland Islands, which......
There Is Clearly A Diversity Of Views On " Pallant."
The derivation offered me last week was- based on a Sussex Dialect Dictionary. This week I am indebted to the Town Clerk of Chichester for a quotation from the Victoria History......
How Hard The Royal Commission On The Press Is Working
I don't know, but it is making a powerful amount of work for other people. Quite apart from its voluminous questionnaire-32 questions, the last divided into twelve......
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