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Pity The Poor Ghost—that Is, Mr. Cleveland Amory, Whose...

assistance and advice in connection with the publi- cation of [the Duchess of Windsor's] memoirs' are no longer required. 'The Duchess,' he says, 'has whims more than opinions,......

A Friend Who Has Been In Sicily Tells Me That

there has been a German invasion there this summer. So strong has it been that the Sicilians assume that every non-Italian is a German. My friend was having dinner with three......

A Spectator's Notebook

A FORTNIGHT AGO I asked what proportion of Communists in a body makes it reasonable to suppose that they have practical control of it. The reference was to the Preparatory......

Some Reviewers Made Great Play With The Booing From The

gallery at the end of the first performance of the Punch Revue. I was present and I heard the booing but it (lid not for a moment occur to me that this was a case of the stern......

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE I T gets curiouser and curiouser. It now seems certain that the changes in the Government are going to be postponed even beyond the reassembly of Parliament. At......