A Lot Of The Resolutions Are Pure Verbiage, A Few
are sensible and constructive. But the general effect is of a large number of small- minded people with little grasp of realities, scant sense of responsi- bility,......
He Fiscal Arrangements In France Sound More Humane Than...
French artist was recently assessed for tax purposes on an income last year of 600,000 frs., or about £600. His own impression s that he had, in fact, earned rather more than......
Owls Seem To Infest These Notes. A Reader Has Sent
me a picture of two of these birds which forms part of a full-page advertisement inserted by the North Thames Gas Board in the programme at the London Hippodrome. The caption......
I Really Don't Know When I Have Read A More
depressing docu- t than the Resolutions for the 49th Annual Conference of the boar Party. I find it impossible to believe that the majority of British Socialists are as pompous,......
" The Vast Importation Of Tortoises Finds The Public,...
uninformed as to how they should be treated." This pleasing and dignified sentence, which I quote from the Oban Times, was followed by the statement that guidance in the matter......
A Spectator's Notebook
HE dispatch of British troops to Korea has been an obvious possibility for the last four weeks. A very easy and a very economical way of averting or anyhow delaying the decision......
War Cabinet ?
S INCE the day when the North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel a whole range of authorities have asserted, in tones varying from confidence, through hope, to panic. that......
Peaking Last Week-end About The Need For Extra...
ence, Mr. Strachey said : " It is perfectly possible that the burden uld be spread justly among all classes, and that the well-to-do their full proportion and share."......