Latin Pronunciation We Read With Pleasure A Letter From The
Headmaster of Eton in The Times last week, condemning the prevailing "reformed " pronunciation of Latin, which has been adopted in order to approach uniformity with con-......
* * * * Lord Irwin In India
The Indian Govenunent has steadily continued • to suppress Congress demonstrations, which are now illegal, and there is reason to suppose that its firmness in maintaining order......
Bank Rate 0 Per Cent., Changed Front 41 Per Cent.
03 September 21st, 1981. War Loan (3 per cent.) was on Wednesday 99k; on Wednesday week, 99,} ; ayear ago, MI. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 87; on Wednesday week,......
The Iraq Mandate Ends
Whatever may be thought of the mandate system im- posed by the Peace Treaties, we welcome the ending of the mandate for Iraq. The Council of the League agreed, histweek, to......
Testitql The Smoke Fiend
fo send 'a Man to Co - sentry would be a boon, according to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. For its committee on atmospheric pollution, after testing the......
The Lothian Library
The Marquess of Lothian's library has gone the way of nearly all the historic private libraries in this country, under the relentless pressure of Death Duties. There is some......
Mr. Mckenna And The Gold Standard
Mr. McKenna has consistently regretted the Treasury's decision to return to the gold standard in 1925. It was natural, therefore, that, in his address to the Midland Bank......
New South Wales In Default
. Extreme Socialism has outrun the constable in New South Wales. Mr. Lang, the Premier of that State, has reduced the finances to such a condition that he has had to instruct......