2 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 5

The Squire Had Attained His Eightieth Birthday, And His...

was offering respectful congratulations. " I never thought, Sir," he declared with fervour, " that I should live to be working for an......

Washington And A New World

T HE Washington conference on the dollar crisis is 'to last five days. That simple fact must not be forgotten for one moment when the chances of its success or failure are......

Rather In The Same Field I Must, I Think, Yield

an inch or two about Professors, who according to the dictionary mean holders of chairs at universities. They do exist, and are so described, at university colleges. Should they......

Swiss Hotel-proprietors Are Said To Be Gloomy, And Not, It

must be admitted, without some reason. Last year the weather was bad, and many guests cut their stay short and went home. This year there has been little wrong with the weather,......

There Will Be Great Doings On Saturday Afternoon When The

Cram- wellians of today—associated in the Cromwell Society, under the chairmanship of that stalwart Roundhead, Mr. Isaac Foot—gather at the Cromwell statue in, or just off,......

Final Judgement On The Merits Of The Unhappy Situation That

has arisen at Ashridge must clearly be suspended till we get a clearer statement of all the facts than is available yet. A financial problem, no doubt, had to be solved. Costs......

So Surrey Are Down And Out, And My Paragraph Of

last week had better not have been written. Also, I overestimated the time it would take to decide the championship. All was over by Monday evening, and Middlesex and Yorkshire......