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A Spectator's Notebook

A SURPRISING paragraph in last Sunday's Observer describing Mr. Donald Tyerman, Deputy Editor of The Times, as a disappointed man because Sir William Haley had been appointed......

British Railways Are In A Real Difficulty Over Their Train-

meals. I refuse to believe that persons travelling at their own expense (a practice to be avoided whenever possible) will long be content to pay 7s. 6d. for a lunch or 5s. for a......

If Any Cambridge Man, Noting That Of The Only Four

amateurs in the first flight of the batting averages three are members of this year's Cambridge XI (the fourth being an old Light Blue), imagines that next month's university......

A British Foreign Policy

W HEN in 'the House of Lords on Tuesday the Marquess of Reading read the statement which Mr. Eden was making almost simultaneously in the other House on the Contractual......

A Knighthood, An Honorary Degree From His Old University,...

sudden death two days after the latter—a strange end for Desmond MacCarthy. But a quiet end, it would seem, and not altogether unexpected, for he had been in ill-health for a......

Every Time I Visit Wilton Park (now Delightfully...

the foot of the South Downs in the shadow of Chancton- bury Ring) I am increasingly impressed by the wisdom of the Foreign Office in maintaining an institution of this kind, to......