12 DECEMBER 1947, page 5

A Sentence That Caught My Eye In Sir Harold Butler's

new book Peace or Power casts, as single sentences often do, a flood of light on one aspect of international relationships. "The first Russian university," he writes, "was not......

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Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler was an institution, both in his own country and in all Anglo-American circles here. He was the public man par excellence. President of Columbia......

Lessons Of The Polls

E PSOM has added its voice to the chorus of by-election verdicts (each, wherever a Liberal stood, with its melancholy tale of forfeited deposit) and Mr. Churchill has......

A Spectator's Notebook

C AMBRIDGE in one week has won the rugger match, won the soccer match and decided to admit women to full membership of degrees. All of which leaves the balance heavily weighted......

The Statement Made By The Duke Of Gloucester On Tuesday

regarding the future of King Edward's Hospital Fund will reassure a number of people who have been wondering what scope there will be for voluntary effort under the new National......

These Are Days, I Gather, When It Is Difficult To

be an honest doctor. Every medical man is beset by patients seeking, and confidently ex- pecting, a certificate for priority milk, or to buttress a claim for supplementary .......