A Spectator's Notebook
T WO pieces of news, differing in importance according to the point of view. One is that PresidentTruman has definitely appointed Mr. George Kennan to be American Aniba - ssador......
A Great Many People Will Regret The Failure Of The
National Trust to prevent the erection of posts for overhead electricity lines on the Malvern Hills, particularly as litigation which it was undoubtedly right to initiate must......
The King Acts In Most Things On The Advice Of
his Ministers. When he acts on his own be is likely to be very well advised. Rarely was he more so than when, with the world knowing nothing about it, he conferred a C.B.E. on......
I Read The Account Of The Minister Of Transport's Enquiry
into the closing of piers on the Clyde with Denis Brogan's article, " Doon the Water," in a recent Spectator swinging back into memory. I have heard a good deal since then of......
Let's-talk Of Zebras. Not So Very Far Removed, Unhappily,...
talking of graves. For it looks so far as if the zebra crossings had caused more accidents, some fatal, than they have averted. However that may be, it is quite clear that the......
The Omens For 1952 T He Year That Opens Next Week
may see a turning-point in our national fortunes at home and abroad. It is accepted doctrine that if Russia does in fact contemplate the desperate throw of an attack on Western......
The Possibility That A Tomb Discovered Under The...
har at St. Peter's in Rome may be that of St. Peter himself, and the bones found therein actually the Apostle's bones, is manifestly of great interest, though an archaeological......
Previous page
