* * * * • The Home Secretary's Decision To
send Borstal boys to Dartmoor really will not do. Public opinion will compel him to change it Dartmoor is not merely a convict prison, it is the bye-word among convict prisons.......
A Spectator's Notebook
I MPATIENCE over the Belsen trials seems to be growing, and ought to be. It is perfectly right, and in true accord with the best tradi- tions of British justice, that the......
No Discovery More Tremendous In Its Potential Reactions...
imagined than the account of the death of Christ said to be contained in contemporary manuscripts found in the course of excava- tions in Jerusalem. An official statement is......
* * * * I Don't Know Whether There Is
a shortage of wrist-watches in Russia, but there won't be for long, judging from what I hear of the move- ment of those commodities eastwards from Austria. Russian soldiers......
It Is Five Months Since The German War, And With
it the bombing of London, ended. The British Museum was naturally closed while the danger existed. It remains closed still—every department of it, I understand. This seems......
After Failure
T HE one fatal mistake in regard to the failure of the Conference of Foreign Ministers would be to attempt to palliate it. The first half of the injunction " Nothing extenuate......
The Retiring Vice-chancellor Of Cambridge Delivered A...
on relinquishing his two-years' stewardship on Monday. The Master of Emmanuel is a man of original mind and clear-cut ideas. He talked challengingly of the creation of a......
The United Nations Association—the League Of Nations...
new conditions—is launching itself publicly on the world at an Albert Hall meeting next Wednesday, when the speakers will include the Prime Minister, Mr. Eden and Mr.......
A Solution To The Mathematical Puzzle In This Column Last
week (six Parliamentary counsel + eight assistants = r3) is suggested. The witness who gave these figures was Sir Granville Ram, First Parlia- mentary Counsel ; asked what staff......