The resolution in question declared that the Republic of South Africa's right to ad- minister South-West Africa was henceforth revoked and that the territory was in future to be...

POLITICAL COMMENTARY By ALAN WATKINS In the year 1857, at the summer assizes of the county of Cornwall, an unfortunate man . . . was sentenced to twenty-one months' im-...

Monday's Times is dull and grey. Tuesday's nothing much to say. Wednesday's Times is hardly funny. Thursday's Times is losing money. Friday's further in the red. Saturday as...

ELECTIONS —1 From MARC ULLMANN PARIS F OR Frenchmen, the most important passage in General de Gaulle's press conference last Friday was what he had to say about the par-...

MEDICINE TODAY By JOHN ROWAN WILSON A WEEK or two ago the BMA announced that it was opening a new department of audio- visual communications, aimed largely at public health...

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November 3, 1866 Venetia has voted herself Italian by 641,758 to 69, which, considering that Venice was Italian by the will of Heaven, whether she voted it or no, is highly...

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By AUBERON WAUGH In theory, the loss will be made up by addi- tional honours to those in public service. I wonder what is meant by public service, and how many of the public...

that Mr Jenkins's much-vaunted liberal- ism could, so far as prison reform is concerned, prove strictly for the birds. The long-gestated Criminal Justice Bill will no doubt...

AFTERTHOUGHT By JOHN WELLS How could the master potter work at his wheel when the village gossips insisted on hanging over his shoulder making footling suggestions and...

storm broke over the Attorney- General I was on the first lap of an inquiry (with no assistance from the Tribunals of Inquiry Act of 1921) into what Whitehall thinks of the...

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28) was marred by one glaring omission. He made no reference to ITV's programme 'The Mountain that Moved,' a nation - wide broadcast at the peak religious vie%ing time of 6.55...

young of the poverty which remains in our society, but a part of Arthur Barton's evidence seems questionable. Like young Ross, many of the boys I teach in a fairly expensive...

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tion (October 14) that the Ministry of Transport could run car insurance should come about. Surely the whole situation under which thousands of insurers found themselves let...

years ago, Margaret Wynn focused attention on the difficulties of women who are left by themselves to bring up children, all too frequently in straitened financial...

SIR.—! found Donald McLachlan's article (October 21) on government information officers hard to understand. He says the press wish to deal with people who 'watch policy being...

(October 28) contains one implication which I ought to try to correct. He suggests that the 'powers-that- be' have in some way prevented me from saying all that I might have...

that he is satisfied to judge by the label without bothering about the contents; and he seems to imply :hat Roxburgh of Stowe was complacent in his views about appointing staff....

reluctantly, have had to admit their mistranslation of the passage from Mozhaev's novel (October 21). This they airily dismiss as 'minor linguistic technicality.' What, I...

A Police Triumph By HILARY SPURLING J oe ORTON deserves attention, not simply as one of our most astute and sophisticated play- wrights, also as a sign or portent of the...

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CARS TTIHE gadfly of us all' is Barbara Castle's I phrase for Colin Buchanan, and it is an apt one. For the last three years, since Traffic in Towns was published, he has been a...

M US I C By CHARLES REID L AST Sunday night at the Royal Albert Hall was one of the most moving nights the place has seen. After the first performance of his 'Gothic'...

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By CUSTOS T HE feature in the Street has been the set- back in government stocks. The market at last realised that it had been pushing up the prices of government bonds too...

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No. 307. L. CEaratsu (Die Schwalbe, 1939) WHITE to play an mate in two moves, solution next week. Solution to No. 306 (Michel): Kt - 0 5 1 no threat. r . . KxP; 2 R-R4 (set R -...