Power Behind U.n.o.
O N both sides of the Atlantic the familiar controversy between Russia and most of the other members of the United Nations is in progress. At Lake Success the British and......
I Am Not A Music-hall Addict. It Must Be Ten
years since I last visited one of these nobly-named institutions, as Mr. Chesterton called them. That, no doubt, is why I failed to appreciate the much- advertised Miss Martha......
The Number Of Persons In The World Who Apparently Attach
no importance to their own name is incredible. Again and again I get letters quite tolerably written—and in any case the context usually clarifies what is obscure—culminating in......
Re-reading Greville During Easter—like Boswell, He Fits...
every season—I came on the record of an odd conversa- tion between Louis XVIII and the Duke of Wellington. Louis, the Duke told Greville, had an astonishing and accurate......
The Fact That An Experiment Is Laudable Does Not Necessarily
mean that it succeeds. It will be a thousand pities if the gallant endeavour of EDAC (Education for Action and Leisure) to provide good music " at cost price " fails to achieve......
A Spectator's Notebook
A PPROVAL of the steps the Government is taking regarding Communists in the Civil Service is sufficiently widespread to make any elaborate defence unnecessary. If anyone doubts......
Considering How I Could Most Becomingly Comment On Last...
record Boat-race—having myself certain affiliations with the victors— I find the problem satisfactorily solved by an Oxford colleague, who tells me (and vouches for the fact)......
During Easter I Was Sent To Buy A Cauliflower (or
possibly broccoli). For what was described as a medium-sized specimen I was asked more than one and a half times the value of a week's meat ration. The relationship, translated......
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