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[WHY the Labour Party should want to broadcast...]
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[Our young men, said Lord Birkenhead, in a rather s-...]
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[Iraq's advance to independence recalls (among many...]
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[Where will you find a more ironic commentary on one...]
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[Holding, as I always have, that we do well to study...]
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[I hear from Dublin that discussion is still raging over...]
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[We are all of us mildly interested in The Times' new...]
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BIRD PASSENGERS.
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[The hedgehogs have multiplied very greatly in number...]
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[A number of dead shrews may be seen on some roads,...]
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[These four countrymen were not content with condemning...]
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[Mammals are less fortunate.]
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OPPORTUNITIES STILL OPEN.
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[I wrote last week of the absence, among forthcoming talks,...]
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[Against, this, however, must be set the fact that the Proms-...]
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[And while I am on this vexed question of broadcast musical...]
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[WITH a running commentary which suggested a football...]
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[MR. DE VALERA will no doubt be inscrutable to...]
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Mr. McNeill's Departure
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[The President stands by his old position, insisting that...]
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The Dominion Veto on Westminster
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The Liberals and the Government
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Mr. Gandhi's Talks
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Animal Lore in English Literature. By P. Ansell Robin.
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Candelabra: Selected Essays and Addresses. By John Galsworthy.
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The Far Eastern Crisis
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Labour in Council
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FAR EASTERN PERILS; [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
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AN OUTLINE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS; [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
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ROAD COMPETITION.
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TRUST THE PRIME MINISTER?; [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
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Bradman's Choice
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Railway Wages
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The 'Rex' and the Public
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English Justice
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The League's New Member
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VULGARIZING THE "SPECTATOR"?; [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
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FAMILY OR FREEDOM?; [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
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THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FROM LEPROSY.
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Ivan The Terrible. By Stephen Graham.
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The Wife of Rossetti. By Violet Hunt.
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The Rise and Fall of Samuel Insull
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THE OCTOBER REVIEWS
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MILK AND MARKETING; [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
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ECONOMY AND EDUCATION; [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
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Queer Street. By Edward Shanks. St. Martin's Summer. By Bonamy Dobree. I Have Been Young. By Elizabeth Lomond. Mutinous Wind. By Robert Speaight. Unending Crusade. By R. Emmet Sherwood. Poor Tom. By Edwin Muir. Crotty Shinkwin and the Beauty Spot. By A. E. Coppard. Helen's Lovers. By Gerald Bullett. The Salutation. By Sylvia Townsend Warner.
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A Letter from Geneva; [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
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A Hundred Years Ago
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Mr. Montagu Norman
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Selected Essays. By T. S. Eliot.
The SpectatorMr. Eliot's Authority Selected Essays. By T. S. Eliot. (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.) TiIxs admirably printed volume of 450 pages contains, we are tol(d, the author's own choice...
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A FitzGerald Friendship. Letters to W. B. Donne. Edited by Neils n Campbell Hannay, B.D., Ph.D.
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II.-Leningrad
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II.-A Decadent Generation?
The SpectatorModern Youth [This article, the second of a series, continues a discussion of mo(derm youth, in which Mr. H. WV. Nevinson and the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton will take part.]...
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Ottawa and the World
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