19 OCTOBER 1934, page 6

* * No One Who Knew Earl Buxton—it Still Seems

more natural to speak of him as Sydney Buxton; though he was given his peerage twenty years ago—could feel any- thing but deep respect and regard' for him. He was 'a quiet,......

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The world has been robbed of many other notable figures since I wrote this column last week, and I wish there were space to say what should be said of all of them. Lord......

* * I Should Demur To A Good Many Of

the strictures passed on moderate drinkers at this week's United Kingdom Alliance meetings, but I find myself in full agreement with the woman delegate who referred to girl......

On Monday The Judge Sitting At The Caunbridge Assizes Was

duly received by the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Houses, and duly listened to' the 'regulation five minutes sermon by which the 'Opening of the Assizes is habitually preceded.......

A Spectator's Notebook T He Ultimate Verdict On M....

I think, be that he was an amazingly efficient human machine, strangely devoid of imagination, to say nothing of some of the - warmer qualities without which humanity can be......

Without Comment " Christ Lives ; It Is Well-nigh Impossible

-to go to a meeting of the League of Nations Union and not feel His presence." — The Bishop of Birmingham at Cambridge last Sunday.......

I Suppose Some Millions Of Money Must Have Been Sunk

in the vain endeavour to get oil ' froth. Coal" On a commercial basis, -and :yet the attempts go on: It is a good thing thei do, for the only hope of reStoritig our coal......

In View Of A Dwindling Population

O N another page a Special Correspondent of The Spectator examines Japan's outstanding problem— that of a rapidly expanding population and the prospect of an additional......