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As For The Impression The New Ministers Have Made In

the House, it varies. The Prime Minister has been quietly adequate —certainly in no way a failure, but certainly no notable success ; we shall have to wait longer to discover......

There Was An Interesting Article On The Future Of The

Ministry of Information in last Sunday's Observer, but as it was shrouded in the anonymity which that admirable journal cultivates so assiduously it is impossible to tell......

A Good Many People Will Soon Be Getting Rather Tired

of declara- tions by Labour Ministers that their predecessors have left things in such a shocking state that they. with all their virtues, cannot be expected to reduce chaos to......

A Spectator's Notebook

W ITH ratifications of the United Nations Charter coming in fast: speculation about the appointment of a Secretary-General is beginning. It is the most important post connected......

One Admirable Institution To Which The War Inevitably Put A

stop was the despatch of Rhodes scholars to Oxford—the few German scholars of course, but the numerous American ones also. Now, fortunately, the flow from America is to begin......

When A Man Is Forced To Go To Law, Either

as plaintiff or as defen- dant, wins his case, but finds himself heavily out of pocket, he always seems to me to have a just complaint against things in general. So has a......

After Lend-lease

T HE Prime Minister's statement on the sudden cessation of Lend-Lease, described by Mr. Churchill as " very grave and disquieting," cast a shadow of gloom over the country which......