And The Waters Under Them
Although it would seem to abrogate to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries functions and powers vested (I had hitherto supposed) by the Almighty in the mysterious pro-......
A Spectator's Notebook
G UATEMALA was the first country (Russia was the second) where I saw infantry marching and making no noise at all with their feet. In Russia this was because they were marching......
—and Back
The wind and the rain were from the north-east next day. As we cut through a grey sea at between seven and eight knots the long, gay, lifeless ranks of bathing huts on the dun......
Ohms
A reader who put a classified advertisement in the Spectator a couple of weeks ago received in due course a bulky OHMS" envelope measuring some 8in. by 6in. It contained a copy......
Germany And The Socialist Soul
That is not the whole story, of course. Whatever Mr. Bevan and his friends may be up to, it still remains true that Mr. Attlee and his friends would like to be able to pursue a......
The Methodical Stoat
You can generally (I maintain) tell when a rabbit is being hunted by a stoat, because it moves in a stiff, tucked up, pre- occupied way. The young rabbit that came running down......
There— The Fore-guy On The Spinnaker-boom Gave As We Bore
down on the buoy that marked the finish; the boom shot up the port fore-stay and the great russet sail billowed out at an angle as unnatural an arresting as Count Dracula's......
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