In Expressing Slight Surprise At Some Remarks Attributed...
John Braithwaite by the New York papers I prudently inserted the qualification " assuming the remarks attributed to him were authentic." Apparently they were not. What Mr.......
My Eye Having Fallen On The Prime Minister In The
edition de luxe of Trollope's novels which the Oxford Univer- sity Press is publishing, I am reminded of the appreciation that volume secured from a rather unexpected quarter.......
Mr. Eden Took The Right And Chivalrous Course In Denouncing
publicly a foul attack made on Sir William Strang, the per- manent head of the Foreign Office, in a recent issue of a Sunday paper. In view of the fact that a civil servant......
This Week's Quotation From The Spectator Of A Hundred Years
ago consists, I am told, of a letter addressed to this journal by four writers, of whom one was Frederic Engels and the other Karl Marx. Its interest is increased by the fact......
If There Is One Man Who Had Better Not Be
in Kenya it is Mr. Fenner Brockway, M.P.; and if there is one place where Mr. Fenner Brockway had better not be it is Kenya. He is a man with whom enthusiasm—often, no doubt,......
I Am Constantly Filled With What I Hope Is A
proper pro- fessional pride at the omniscience of the British Press. We possess papers that can see what never happened and hear what was never said. The latest journal to......
The American Vacuum
B Y the time the next issue of The Spectator appears the American Presidential election will have been decided. Other elections will have "I:teen decided too, for the whole of......
I Am All For Prison Reform, And For Enlightenment In
the treatment of criminals, but it is rather easy to slip over the border into sentimentality and indulgence. When I read, as I did on Tuesday, that a revolution in our prison......
A Spectator's Notebook Q Uestions On Train Safety In The...
of Commons on Monday produced none of the reassurance that was needed. One answer was that no system of automatic train control, such as was adopted by the Great Western Railway......
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