10 JULY 1953, page 7

Tiger The Lion The Standard Reaction Of Those Who Have

met Tensing in London seems to be a mixture of admiration and solicitude. Everyone is impressed by his simple integrity, and everyone is afraid that it may be tarnished by the......

Battle Honours I Was Interested To Hear, From A Man

who knew what he was talking about, that for the Japanese, when they look back on the last war, the fighting in Burma has a certain grim pre-eminence, and that Imphal evokes in......

From Tibet To Peru The News Of The Ascent Of

Nanga Parbat by an Austro- German expedition will be welcome to all mountaineers but to few more, perhaps, than to Herr Heinrich Harrer, who flew last week to Peru with designs......

A Spectator's Notebook

M R. SCOTT HENDERSON was the chairman of a Royal Commission which a few years ago produced a most interesting and judicious report on cruelty to wild animals. Much of the......

Thunder In The East

T HERE have been riots in Pilsen and Berlin; Herr Grotewohl has a new policy for Eastern Germany and M. Nagy heads a new government in Hungary. There are rumours (emphatically......

Dereliction Of Duty ?

The Oliviers' Pekingese is the latest recruit to the conspiracy of silence embracing practically every dog whose master's house has been visited by a ladder-gang. There were......