It Is Worth Noting That At Last Week's Municipal Elections
194 Communists stood and 194 Communists were defeated—a fact which The Daily Worker finds it rather difficult to explain away. This is in line with the general ebb of the......
Visitors To The House Of Commons, Both-british And...
express surprise that there is no time-limit to the speeches, and they well may, considering the length of some of the utterances they have to listen to. But whenever the......
A Word More On " Allergic." Some English Dictionaries, I
am told, -do fulfil expectations. Of the selection sent me I find the Little Oxford Dictionary (my Concise O.D. is silent on "allergic ") most to the point. Its entry is......
Two Wills Reported In The Papers In The Past Week
offer a curious contrast. Sir Holman Gregory, K.C., who was Recorder of London, left £8,000 odd ; Mr. Frank Hodges, who was at one time a miners' agent, then for a short time a......
A Spectator 's Notebook
T HE fact of Mr. Winant's death is almost as tragic as the manner of it. In many ways he was a unique figure—shy, awkward, almost uncouth, generally looking as though his......
Labour And The Lords
T HE text of the Bill to amend the Parliament Act of 1911 by reducing by a year the period by which the House of Lords can delay the passage into law of a Bill that the Commons......
The Proposal To Allocate A Considerable Quantity Of The...
States gold reserve at Fort Knox for the purpose of stabilising European currencies is interesting less because of Mr. Bevin's recent proposal, not well received across the......