A Spectator's Notebook
T HE New Year Honours seem to call for no special comment. Many worthy persons have got the recognition -which they deserve, and perhaps desired. Others, equally, worthy, have......
Every Time I Walk Through Piccadilly Circus' And See The
pedestal where Eros used to be, and down Whitehall and see the pedestal where Charles I used to be, I brood on the sinister influences that are depriving London of two of its......
* * * * In A Story In This Column
a week or two ago about Mr. Gladstone, C.B. and a Latin quotation, I made the mistake of telling the thing as it was told to me, overlooking an obvious slip in it. 'There was......
Horses, I Find, Must Not Presume Too Much On The
recent decision of the House of Lords that they may stray on the highway as mnch as they choose. Someone sends me particulars of a case in which a Hull firm was mukted (not very......
That Lord Montgomery's Perpetual Journeyings Should Be...
Moscow is'cry good news. It is the kind of. visit that may have lasting results. For it is a mission that has no purpose except good will ; missions that have definite purposes......
Red Light From Coal
I T is recorded that, when the Coal Industry Nationalisation Bill received its third reading, the Labour Members of the House of Commons, numbers of them ex-miners, celebrated......
The Announcement Of Two Articles I In The Dilly ....
Mr. Churchill on a United States of Europe aroused general and inevitable interest, which the first article when it appeared abun- dantly justified. The writer, as might be......
Figure. One Incident Is Sufficiently•revealing. Here Is...
record of a Cabinet meeting in 1925: "I had noticed - once or twice that S.B. didn't seem to be attend- ing to me, and presently he passed an open note across the table to......
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