10 AUGUST 1956, page 7

If Sir Anthony Eden Decided To Broadcast To The Nation

on Suez, the Manchester Guardian's London Correspondent noted a few days ago, it might not be easy to arrange a special television appearance in a hurry : 'there will be the......

Mr. Evelyn Waugh, I Am Glad To See, Now Confines

my boobydom to theology, but on this particular theological point I venture to think I am being fairly sensible. Mr. Waugh writes that 'the doctrine of Mary's co-Redeemership......

A Spectator's Notebook

MY OPINION OF the Independent Television Authority, never very high, has fallen further since reading its recent notice to the press. It announces its 'dismay' over the......

Poetry Has Been In The News Lately. First, There Was

the well-deserved award of the Arts Council prize for poetry to R. S. Thomas for his volume Song at the Year's Turning. Readers of the Spectator will remember the praise......

London Is Full Of Minor Mysteries. I Was On Top

of a bus recently travelling up Oxford Street when the conductor ap- peared; turned the front seat upside down; put one foot on it (to balance himself); produced a camera of (I......

The Conference Held In London Last Month Between The Board

of Governors of flit Weizmann Institute at Rehovoth in Israel and representatives of organisations in Britain and America which support this remarkable centre of fundamental......