2 JUNE 1950, page 4

The Name Chicksands Caught My Eye In A Daily Paper

on Tuesday (in connection with a sad drowning accident). It is a very small villag-e. in Bedfordshire, and probably thousands of people, like myself, have never heard of it......

It Is Announced That Some Russians Are Training In The

Caucasus for the ascent of Mount Everest. Will they get to the summit? Quite unquestionably they will. Who is to prove that they did not—if anyone should contemplate anything so......

The Spirit Of Europe

CC E have before us,"said General Marshall at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, " the greatest task ever faced by any generation of men in the preserva- tion of peace."......

I Hope This Country Realises What It Is In For

if the Labour Party remains in power and some of its members have their way. A Left- Wing weekly which reckons to speak with some authority on Labour policy had this to say last......

What The Times, In An Interesting Article On Part Of

the scrolls discovered near the Dead Sea in 1947, describes as " new light on Habakkuk " seems to be no more than a further addition to the various interpretations that have......

The Case Of The Sentry Gordon Linsell, Of The Black

Watch, who was sentenced to death by a court-martial for the murder of a German whom he shot after challenge when on duty, is strange and distressing. There was a strong......

Who Is The Most Famous Living American ? You Thought

Truman or Eisenhower or even Dean Acheson ? Ridiculous. There could be only one answer, and the Daily Worker gives it—Paul Robeson. The result, I suppose, of living in a little......

A Spectator's Notebook T Here Is Something Just A Little...

about the auto- biographical articles by the Duke of Windsor which the Sunday Express is publishing. There are few people who will not regret that a former King of England......