Mr. Michael Foot, I See, Has Been Congratulated Because He
has decided to remain as the candidate for Devonport, where he was defeated at the last General Election, instead of seeking another (and safer) seat. This seems to me to show......
`dismiss All The Stories Of American Service Men Being...
by the Chinese,' said the Daily Worker's diplomatic correspondent on Monday. His authority for this was the Washington Post. But the WP as quoted by him said that few prisoners......
Thomas Mann Had His Fame Here, Of Course, But It
was always tempered by a slight suspicion which I (although an admirer of Mann) never found surprising in my compatriots. His genius flowered from the conflict between his......
Newsprint Intelligence
'AT LAST the Government decides to end the control of newsprint. That is welcome news, long awaited.'—Daily Express, August 15. `SURELY HE [Mr. Thornycroft] must have second......
A Spectator's Notebook
THE RUSSIAN announcement of the release of , 640,000 men from the forces is another of those acts which go over well in the West, without amounting to very much. The Russian......
Samuel Deronda Has Been So Flattered By The Attention He
is receiving from Mr. John Wain in another part of this paper that he has written from Reigate and enclosed a poem for the delectation of the Spectator's readers : And what for......
I Said Last Week That I Thought Our Policemen Are
wonderful. Except, of course, when they are pursuing me. I had to drive the other evening to a place near Fenchurch Street Station, a part of the city with which I am rather......
On Inconvenient Allies
BY CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS I AM not at all concerned in this article to deny the diffi- culties of foreign policy, nor to argue what our foreign policy ought to be. I am not at all......