3 MAY 1957, Page 8

tmaxlco CITY students are, it appears, threatening to burn five

buses in retaliation for one of their 'number being injured by a careless driver. This is what the Marxists Would call 'direct action,' and is capable of indefinite extension. What with the assassination of British Railways public relations officers and the tarantulas sent through the post to income-tax inspectors, the police would be kept busy if it spread here. However, I should, I am sure, advise striking at the head : 'Burn your MP's Austin' would, I am sure, be a most popular slogan for the next General Election. But what would the Committee of Privileges say? PIIAROS