Quotations Are Prickly Things. I Referred Last Week To...
II's remark that his generals frightened him. Now I am told that it was not George II, it was Wellington, and it was not generals but troops: "Well, gentlemen. I don't know what......
The Subject Of Hospital Costs Might Form A Not Unfruitful
theme for an acid pen. A friend of mine recently had a fall and cut his head. Place London, time 4 a.m.—which no doubt had financial consequences. Anyhow, a surgeon came and......
French Without Thiers, Says A Distinguished Historian In...
and reminiscent mood. JANus......
My Question About Women's Heads On American Stamps Has...
me a surprising volume of correspondence—embedded amongst it the observation that I am obviously not a philatelist, which is very true. It appears that there have been many......
Nothing Could Be More Foolish Than To Underrate The Possi-
bilities of a mass attack by German aeroplanes. None the less the failure of such attack as there has been so far is little short of mysterious. Some idea exists, I know, that......
A Spectator's Notebook
HE announcement that Sir Maurice Peterson, the late British Ambassador in Spain, has been appointed Director D I f Overseas Publicity at the Ministry of Information draws atten-......
Important And Impressive As It Is To Have Parliament Sitting
regularly three days a week, exercising its essential functions not only of legislation but of criticism and revision, the value of it is lamentably though inevitably diminished......
Is The Admiralty Quite Tactful? I Saw A French Sailor,
serving obviously under General de Gaulle, with the customary French naval porn-porn cap, but with a ribbon bearing the legend " H.M.S. Victory." Temporary association with a......
Post-war Europe
TN his broadcast last Sunday evening Mr. Priestley asked very pertinently what we intend to do this time for the men who are fighting the war for us today. Many similar......
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