I Forget Whether The Blues And The Buffs Were Opposed
at Eatans- will ; I think they were. That would no doubt account in part for the heat engendered over cheese in the House of Commons last week. The Ministry of Food, represented......
Not Many, I Suppose, Of The Thousands Of People Who
pass weekly through St. Stephen's Hall on their way to the Central Lobby of the House of Commons stop to study the eight frescoes which line the walls. Those who do may take......
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Some odd things are happening about Basic English. A question on the subject to the Minister for Education on Monday brought the answer that the £23,000 which the Government has......
A Spectator 's Notebook T He Home Secretary Has Described...
Poles at present in this country as tough. So, pretty clearly, if in a rather different sense, is the Prime Minister. The burdens he is carrying at present, and physically at......
The Air Ministry, I Feel, Deserves Commendation For The...
accuracy in its weather-forecasts throughout this unprecedented period. It may be argued, no doubt, that any second-division clerk could go on saying morning after morning "......
Someone Has Sent Me In Another Capacity Five Pounds To
hand to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with an explanation which seems to me to deserve some publicity. " At the beginning of 1946," she writes, " I decided to give up......
Mr. Bevin And Moscow
T HE Foreign Secretary has set out on a fateful journey. The Moscow Conference must affect the destiny of nations, and of European nations in particular, decisively for good or......
Saudi Arabia Is One Of The Regions Of The Earth
where the ancient and modern jostle one another strangely. Meeting the Emir Saud (the eldest of His Majesty's 32 sons) and his retinue a few days ago, I was surprised to find......
On Another Aspect Of The Weather, The Benedicite, Which Was
sung at Westminster Abbey, and no doubt in many other places where they sing, awakes in places rather sombre reflections. The exhortation "0 ye Frost and Cold, bless ye the Lord......
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