... . COMMONWEALTH ROUND-UP Antarctic Explorers Speak The B.B.C’s Christmas Day programme, * Voices Out of the Air,” linked the Commonwealth by radio. Listeners joined explorers aboard the Antarctic exploration ship Magga Dan, entering the ice of Vahsel BaL ...

... com‘mittee. The committee expressed the fear that Gaelic-speaking chiidren might be directed into unsuitable courses because they did not ?otthemulves justice in the intelligence est. “ Ask English-speaking children to take the intelligence test in Gaelic; that ...

... FESTIVAL CONTESTS AT GALASHIELS Verse-Speaking Winners The preliminary session for the Galashiels area in the verse speaking classes of the Border Musical Festival was held at Galashiels last night. The session was notable for the high standard achieved ...

... Speaking of English From Sir Henniker Heaton, The Haining, Polmont, Stirlingshire, August 30, 1954 Sir.—lt 1s surelz a misconception of the meaning of the word standard to say that the English lan¥uage can never attain a standard of speaking because “language ...

... Do the French speak too quickly for you? Many visitors to France who have leamt French at school find they cannot understand mote than an odd word or two of French people’s conversation. It is all too fast to follow. The reason is that their ears are ...

... GERMAN-SPEAKING CONGREGATION New Church Opened The German-speaklng Presbyterian congregation in Scotland held a special service last night to mark the opening of their new church at 1 Chalmers Crescent, Edinburfih. Formerly a dancing school, the building ...

... QUEEN SPEAKS OF “THIS MOMENTOUS TIME” Advance into the unknown The text of the Queen’s Speech opening the new gession of Parliament yesterday is as follows:— My Lords and Members of the House of Commons, 1 look forward with much pleasure to the visit ...

... WORLD SCENE CHINESE FREE TO SPEAK OUT * Peking encourages . . frank opinions By Our Fereign Observers Peking officials are trying hard to coax the people into expressing their opinions frankly once more. It is just two years since the period of free ...

... THE CHURCH MUST SPEAK Question for General Assembly The Rev. Professor John H. S. Burleigh, convener of the Church and Nation Committee of the Church of Scotland General Assembly, told a representative of The Scotsman last night that the question of the ...

... ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION Travel Grant for Scot The English-Speaking Union in Scot- | ! land announced that a Workers' Travel | Grant for 1954 has been awarded to ‘ Mr Peter H. Thomson, of Kilmarnock. Mr Thomson, who is a member of the Union of Post Office ...

... ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION Scottish Organising Secretary Mz lax A, GimoOUuß has been appointed organisingsgcretary for the English-S}uakjn( Union in tland, the organisation o which, as already announced. is being developed on a national basis by a committee ...

... PRIME MINISTER TO SPEAK Scottish Unionist conference The Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan. will address a rall( in the Church of Scotland Assembly Hall, Edinburgh. on May 9. at the end of the Scottish Unionist Association conference. The conference ...