10 JANUARY 1958, page 4

A Mere £50 Million

T HE Government will certainly survive the loss of Mr. Thorneycroft and the two Secretaries to the Treasury, just as it survived the loss of Lord Salisbury, but Mr. Macmillan,......

The Premier's Proposal

T HE only comment available in London about the Foreign Secretary's lunch last Tuesday with the Soviet Ambassador was that it was not a consequence of Mr. Macmillan's helpful......

Law Reform

T HOSE who lament that men with the highest professional qualifications are turning away from government into industry might ponder a moral. We would never have got English......

Weather Intelligence

COLDER WEATHER with sunny intervals and showers will spread to all districts by about midday.—Sunday Times, January 5. WARMER WEATHER is on the way and had already reached some......