4 NOVEMBER 1949, page 5

I Commented The Other Day On The 225 Years Of

existence Messrs. Longmans, the publishers, have to their credit. Someone now sends me a letter from a Birmingham firm, Messrs. Ottway and Company, Limited, bearing a note at......

The Article On "catholicism Today " In Monday's Times Was

extremely interesting, but the sub-heading: " RELATIONS BETWEEN ROME AND THE CHRISTIAN WORLD" shakes me a little. Is this contrast really necessary ? Perhaps it is. Anyhow, the......

Europe And Mr. Hoffman

M R. PAUL HOFFMAN, the head of the Economic Co-operation Administration, is a public servant with an unenviable task. He has had to hustle members of the Organisation for......

I Have Referred More Than Once To The Admirable Work

being carried on by the Foreign Office at Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, in the form of courses in British political practice, and indeed political practice generally, for selected......

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My good intentions deserved a better welcome. It is all a question, it seems, of carbon copies. That is why, in writing to "Dear Janus," my acquaintances must put my address on......

Everyone Is Glad That The Amethyst' And Her Gallant Company

are home again, slipping into Plymouth Sound past Rome Head and Cawsand Bay, like so many famous vessels from Drake's ' Golden Hind' onwards. Their reception in London is still......

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I am sorry about burioice. It appears to have not only puzzled but annoyed. It represents a certain mispronunciation of bourgeois. But let it be forgotten.......

A Spectator 's Notebook

AT ground the Political Correspondent of The Observer has for saying that (in Tory circles) " the belief now is that there will not only be a Conservative victory, but that it......