28 JANUARY 1949, page 5

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Office, President Wilson used to say, made the man. Let him leave the office, for good reason or bad, and four times out of five he relapses into obscurity. That is probably......

A Lynskey Cameo: " Mr. Stanley Came Uninvited To This

dinnet, but was allowed to stay. Mr. Stanley professed great interest in the [Freedom and Democracy] Trust, and borrowed a cheque from Mr. Gibson and filled it up for L50......

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HERE is room for two views about the propriety of the Govern- men's assisting the Daily Worker by advertising in its columns. Sir Stafford Cripps holds one view and Mr.......

My Own Proclivity For Committing Howlers Being...

with sympathy and mild satisfaction that I see the impeccable Times slide occasionally into the same abyss. The writer who on Monday produced casi belli as the plural of casus......

Since It Took Place On A Wednesday Afternoon, I Shall

not be able to comment on the debate Viscount Simon was initiating in the House of Lords on that day on the affairs of U.N.E.S.C.O. It is extremely desirable that .a critical,......

Palestine Turning-point

I T was natural and right that Mr. Bevin should have dragged Wednesday's debate on Palestine in the House of Commons back to first principles. The abuse which has been heaped on......

Baedeker Would Have Been Almost A Forgotten Name If The

Nazis had not kept it alive during the war by their raids on Bath and Exeter and other towns that could have had no importance for them except that they were mentioned in the......

The Doctors Who Protest Against The Minister Of Health's...

that private patients shall not have free medicine seem to me fully justified in their attitude. Under the National Health Act every citizen is entitled to free treatment and......