14 JUNE 1935, page 6

Look First On This Quotation—from A Publisher's...

Mr. Beverley Nichols writes : I can honestly say this novel has great merit.' Well, it has, or rather its author has, the merit of sincerity and earnestness."—,Spectator. and......

One Other Word On The Cabinet Changes. It Is Rumoured

that Lord Halifax, having gone temporarily to the War Office, intends to retire from active political life after the General Election. If there is any grain of truth in that, I......

Members Of Parliament And Others Who Are Calling On The

British Government to close the Suez Canal in the event of hostilities between Italy and Abyssinia would be wise not only to reflect on the effect such menaces may have in......

The Church And Divorce

W HEN the Convocations of Canterbury and York about three years ago sanctioned the appointment of Joint Committees on " The Church and Marriage," it was presumably thought......

Mr. G. K. Chesterton, I Notice, Has Been Informing The

world by wireless that " the English Parliament has decided that wine is not a poison at five minutes to three, but becomes a poison at five minutes past three." What English......

A Spectator's Notebook

O NE Cabinet change which has what may be termed extra-political consequences is the appointment of Lord Hailsham to succeed Lord Sankey as Lord Chancellor. Why Lord Sankey......

* * A Well-intentioned Little Comment That Misfires And Has

to be laboriously explained is a poor pitiable thing. One such of my own, better left dead and sepulchred, must, it seems, be resurrected to dispel misunderstanding. In the......