A Spectator's Notebook
I N the current issue of the Anglo-Soviet Journal thirteen members of two ' cultural delegations' who visited the USSR last autumn record their impressions of what they W. Their......
Rockets To Right Of Them
A friend of mine, a retired officer of the Indian Cavalry, was reading aloud to his six-year-old son Russell's eye-witness account of the charge of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade at......
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e rhutchers iLest this chivalrous appreciation should convey a misleading in Pression of our late enemies, it is worth recalling one of the punishments that did come the......
Spectator Competition For Schools
The Spectator offers three prizes, each of books to the value of eight guineas, for articles to be written by boys and girls in schools in the United Kingdom. Entries should be......
Towards Freer Trade
T HE past fortnight has seen the publication of two major statements on world trade--the official communique., issued at the close of the Commonwealth Finance Ministers' meeting......
T Ough And Dogged The Second Of The Official Histories Of
the last war—The Zar in France and Flanders, 1939-40, by Major H. F. ' 11 ;s —was published on Monday. It will be reviewed at length elsewhere in these pages; but I think one......
Waiter's Hazard
If you write a cheque in a restaurant on a form provided by the management and omit to fill in the branch of your bank at which you have an . account, the cheque (or so a waiter......
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