4 FEBRUARY 1938, page 6

That Distasteful Linielight Is On The Secretary For War...

This time it is the Windsor Magazine, with an article on the Rt. Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha, with pictures of the Rt. Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha fighting an election, crossing a......

I Suggested In This Column Not Long Ago That The

extensive plans Herr Hitler had in hand for the rebuilding of Berlin might be regarded as a pointer towards peace, for you do not spend millions on constructions which you think......

The Daily Sketch, Following, I Fancy, On An American Model,

now proclaims itself as containing "All the News and Pictures Fit to Print." It is a laudable limitation. But one that may surely be taken for granted in a British newspaper,......

Old Soldiers, They Say, Never Die. Nor, It Appears, Do

old jokes. In last week's Spectator Dame Edith Lyttelton, reviewing Hereward Carring - ton's The Psychic World, quoted from it some examples of condemned innovations, among them......

The Transatlantic Spelling-bee Last Sunday Afternoon Was...

anything the B.B.0 (acting this time in con- junction with one of the American Broadcasting Companies) has put on for a long time. Who picked the Oxford team I don't know, but......

It Is Difficult For The Ordinary Prosaic British Citizen To

understand the fuss in the British Press about Princess Juliana. Holland's interest in the expected event was in- telligible enough. But Holland, though a country towards which......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE abortive threat to Streicher's paper Der Stiirmer may be significant of a good deal. Copies of that vile organ are rarely seen in this country. Its single motif is anti-......

The Riots In Trinidad

I N June of last year a strike was organised among the workers in the oiffields in Trinidad and the movement rapidly spread to workers on the sugar- plantations and on the water......