I N last week's Spectator the Soviet Communist Party Praesidium was compared to the French Assembly. The new elections to it, by perpetuating deadlock, carry the Parallel...

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T HE RE amendment, which was carried by 292 - to 246, called upon 'Her Majesty's Government to introduce forthwith e gislation for its abolition or for its suspension for an...

M EMBERS of the Opposition cannot be blamed for finding it difficult to keep a straight face in the defence debate this week. Sir Walter Monckton is confessedly inexperienced,...

By Our German Correspondent. Bonn W E live in an age when a rearguard action which avoids the worst of an impending catastrophe can be presented to the public as a signal...

By RICHARD H. ROVERE student ever admitted to the University 'of Alabama, is still being forbidden to attend 'classes. As all the world must know by now, Miss Lucy attended one...

T HE thaw is here at last; and in Washington the ice- jam of speculation about President Eisenhower's future broke on Wednesday when he announced at his press conference his...

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