From Correspondence I Have Received It Would Seem That...
in a recent broadcast suggested that Charles Kingsley was not a Cambridge man. He ought to have known better. Kingsley was essentially Cambridge (though Oxford can have the poem......
Supplementary Questions In The House Of Commons Have To Be
shot off without much thought ; otherwise it is too late to shoot them off at all. That must be Major Peter Roberts' excuse for offering the outrageous suggestion that an atom......
I Quote (and It Is Worth Quotation): " Dear Mr.
, Our committee has voted you one of the most outstanding writers of recent years, and it is my pleasure to offer you an honorary fellowship of the National Writers' Club." It......
On Thursday Of Last Week At Torquay I Heard Someone
tell a story of the man who was seen walking through Winchester with an oar on his shoulder. Asked why he was doing that, he answered that he was a seaman who was sick of the......
* * * * I Am Completely At One With
Sir Pelham Warner in his criticism of cricket commentators who insist on referring to every player by his Christian name as well as his surname. It is intended, no doubt, to......
The Meaning Of Korea
p RESIDENT TRUMAN took two days to make up his mind on the use of American armed force in Korea. All the evidence to date goes to confirm that those two days were well spent.......
The Question Whether Officials Of The Allied Control...
Germany who marry German wives should be required to resign their posts forthwith may not be easy to decide, but the present rule, whereby resignation in such circumstances'is......
In Two Successive Weeks The Headmasters Of Mill Hill And
of Harrow '(in that chronological order) have declared their profound conviction of the wrongheadedness of the Minister of Education's ruling that no boy may take the new......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE Prime Minister was less than fair when in the Schuman debate on Tuesday he said, regarding the Labour Party's European Unity document " It raised a storm, especially with......