The Archive · 1940

Birthday Suits

1 see that London's nudist colony planning. a, four-days' spree, Christmas in' the clubhouse of the National Sun and Air Association at Cricklewood. According tothe sefelarye Br, Mien Lilt, interviewed by the *News-Chronicle:" avent 10 nudists will take port. rs. Lal's two daughters, aged 17 and. Li, are Wrist watches, necklaces and bang-may' be worn. Otherwise the tly covering allowed will be caratval T notice, again thinking of the north-west wind, that the party is be held in the clubhouse. But would you not think the war should have killed this sort of tomfoolery?

Intricate Business we Evcrssu Canneer Sverrat By Wangteh Yor Ph. King, London. 10/-.

This book, as the author says in his prefatory note, is the outcome of 3 Whesis he wrote on "The English Tos8-1017" at the London Economies and Political Science, University of London, The ook is divided very conveniently into chapters which deal with the various aspects of the Cabinet in the making and during ils existence, which chaps {ers are again sub-divided into parts which allow of a very complete analysis of the system. There is a rear deal of vastly interesting matter, but there is no denying that a good deal of it makes somewhat heavy reading and not what might be zolled a bedside novel, but it will make a valuable book of reference. Numerous Ministries are "specially dealt with, and the material collected. must "have entailed: an crormous Amount of painstaking research. The Zonelusion the author comes to at the id of the first chapter entitled "The formation of a Cabinet" Is that the making of a Cabinet is a rather more than one would imagine and that no more formidable task confronts a Prime Minister than the construction Cabinet, Sir Robert Peel described it as the hardest task that could fall upon any Minister.

The position of the Prime Minister discussed at length and to anyone unversed in the political world it is certainly an eye-opener to read what here written. It may not be generally known that it was not until 1917 that the office of Prime Minis-{er was recognized by law, and it was for this reason that the Premier generally took another office for the Durpose of receiving a salary.

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