29 MAY 1947, page 5

Mr. Churchill's War Memoirs—they Are In Fact Much More Than

that, for they start With Hitler's Chancellorship in 1933—which the Daily Telegraph is to publish serially in this country and Life and the New York Times in America, promise to......

Be Done About It? What Ought Most Clearly To Be

done about it, in my view, is to give definite and increased priority to educational books. I know the difficulties. It means nice decisions as to what books are educational and......

* * * * It Is Startling To Discover Now

and then how events of considerable importance or gravity in some remote corner of the earth can escape notice here altogether. There has been hardly a mention, if any men- tion......

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I have mentioned at least once before in this column my personal view, which I know many readers do not share, that nothing could be much more banal than the words of our......

Ministers At Margate

T HE chief feature of the Labour Party Conference so far—the discussion on foreign affairs has not taken place as this is written—has been the contrast between the......

The Report Of The Pilgrim Trust For 1946, Which Has

just reached me, is more topical than its authors realised it would be when they wrote it, and it breathes a very different spirit in regard to the south bank of the Thames at......

A Spectator's Notebook

Q UEEN MARY has succeeded, and most worthily, to the place held in the hearts of her countrymen by Queen Alexandra after the death of King Edward. The tributes paid to her this......