23 JUNE 1950, page 5

It Does Not Seem To Be Generally Known, Though I

have heard it from two reliable authorities, that the Conservative Central Associa- tion has laid it down that no Conservative candidate for Parliament shall contribute anything......

I Acquired The Other Day A Copy Of R. D.

B.'s Diary at a price Which I will not mention for fear of paining Mr. Blumenfeld's heirs and assigns, and among other things came on the note of an encounter (in 1887) with a......

The Headmaster Of Blundell's Does Well To Draw Attention To

the insidious propaganda which disseminators of Communism are endeavouring to plant on suitable recipients—in this particular case copies of a journal called the New Central......

A Spectator's Notebook

L ORD DARNLEY'S very unusual motion in the House of Lords on Tuesday—calling on His Majesty's Government to " take initial steps towards the reorganisation of human society now......

Mr. Attlee's Dilemma

HAT is the attitude of the Socialist Government of Great Britain towards the non-Socialist Governments of Europe—or for that matter the non-Socialist Governments of the British......

International Trade Is A Strange Affair In These Days....

very reasonably, asked the Minister of Food in the House of Commons on Monday why 1,400 tons of chocolate had been imported from Czechoslovakia in the first four months of this......

The Illustrations In The Report Of The Committee On Houses

of Outstanding-Historic or Architectural Interest are almost worth the 3s. which the Stationery Office charges for the report. The whole is an essay on the tragedy of English......

The Additional £5 Which Sir Stafford Cripps Is Granting To

motorists taking their cars abroad will ease matters substantially, and the concession must be counted to him for righteousness— though the owner of a medium-sized car who wants......