A Spectator's Notebook I T Is A Long Time Since A
casual phrase has set speculation alight, and not in this country only, like Mr. Baldwin's declaration in the Air Debate that our frontier today is on the Rhine. The actual......
The Outlay On Keeping Our Cathedrals From Falling Down Seems
endless ; here is Peterborough, which has just spent a large sum on the roof of its eastern chapel, finding that a larger one must be spent on the founda- tions, unless......
Sir John Fischer Williams Is One Of Those Public- Spirited
citizens always ready to serve the community for no tangible reward. No sooner does his work as Chairman of a Departmental Committee on Imprisonment for Default end than he is......
The News Chronicle, Which Has Been Begging Its Readers To
send it letters on the burning question of unchaperoned holidays, must have been highly gratified at the response. It has so far received—and published— communications from......
Prison For Non-payment
A BOUT '20,000 people are sent to prison every year by police-courts in England and Wales for failing to pay sums of money. Some of them go as an alternative to paying court......
The Old Sporting Adage, "they Never Come Back," Usually...
as surely to film stars as to boxers. Marie Dressier" came back" at the age of sixty, and her hold on the public continued unbroken until her death last week. A few months ago I......
Marshal Lyautey Was The Outstanding Example In This...
a great soldier making himself yet greater in peace than in war. In Indo-China and Madagascar, and, of course, supremely in Morocco, he brought civiliza- tion to savage tribes,......
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