The Government Of London
N OBODY ought to be surprised at the results of the L.C.C. elections. Since the Great Depression set in there has not been a General Election in any country in the world at......
A * * A The Heroes Of Fleet Street. Headline
: BOY HERO OF FLAT FIRE. The narrative : " A 12-year-old schoolboy, awakened by a noise which he thought was caused by mice nibbling through the ceiling, was the hero of a blaze......
A A . A " My Mother Had Eleven Children.
I have one, and don't intend to have any more." So said the anonymous working woman in her widely-discussed broadcast talk of last Monday. I thought of this statement when on......
The Archbishop Of Canterbury's Activity Seems Equal To...
demands made on it by his versatility—and they are not inconsiderable. On Tuesday he was dis- coursing in the afternoon, not merely with fervour but with intimate knowledge, on......
Does Anyone, I Wonder, Read Vice Versa Nowadays ? Mr.
Anstey Guthrie's death, coming within a day or two of the publication of his reminiscences of George du Maurier in Punch, makes the question inevitable. I was, of course,......
An Englishman Who Has Lived Abroad For A Dozen Years
tells me that the feature of English cinemas that strikes him most forcibly is the quite disproportionate attention paid in the news section of the programme to films of naval,......
A Spectator's Notebook
L ORD BEAVERBROOK must, in all seriousness, have been a substantial factor in the Labour Party's L.C.C. victory. His attack on the co-operative societies stung all co-operative......
I Hear That An Appeal Has Been Lodged Against The
ruling of the United States Judge who declined to condemn James Joyce's Ulysses, on the ground that he found it emetic but not aphrodisiac. What the United States authorities do......
According To Dr. Diels, The Chief Of The Prussian Secret
Police, " the case of Torgler [the German Communist leader who was acquitted at the Reichstag Fire Trial, but is still in prison] interests General Goering personally.7 The most......
Previous page
