28 DECEMBER 1956, Page 6

I HAVE BEEN much heartened during these dark days by

a story I have heard which shows that some old loyalties, which stand above party and even above country, still survive. At a recent meeting of a Northern Rotary Club a public figure took it upon himself after dinner, as public figures will, to comment upon the international scene. 'Nasser's action . . . ,' he began. 1 trust,' said an interrupter, 'that the sp.-dicer will not here malign Colonel Nasser. He is a fellow-Rotarian.'

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