10 MAY 1957, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

I FIND IT HARD to believe that there is anybody who still takes the Attorney-General seriously over this, but, just in case, I had better refute the ridiculous allegations he......

The Sole Instance The Attorney-general Gave To Support...

charges was that in relating Mr. Melford Stevenson's opposition, at the start of the Eastbourne proceedings, to a request by Mr. Lawrence to make an application, in camera, the......

There Really Ought To Be A Society For The Pro-

tection of the works of Percy French. Next to Tom Moore he was Ireland's most delightful writer of lyrics; but he is underestimated in his own country because of his disposition......

'we Have Been To The Brink Of World War. This'is

the work of the United Nations, the United States, and the USSR. A Middle East parcelled between Russian Marxists and American moralisers spells, a world partitioned by dollar......

I See That M. Anouilh's Waltz Of The Toreadors Was

neatly transformed in Saturday's Manchester Guardian into a piece of science-fiction, with the sinister quotation 'More aughs than any other play,' while Mr. William Douglas......

Following The Bbc's Decision To Fractionalise The Third...

. . a departmental meet- ing at Broadcasting House amused itself by sug- gesting a change of name. Easily the most popular offering: the Two-Thirds Programme. Atticus in the......

To Sum Up. The Attorney-general Told The House Of Commons

that the prosecution had made it 'perfectly clear' that it did not oppose the de- fence's request that certain evidence should be heard in camera. Is that true? The answer, it......

Romantic Intelligence

PRINCESS MARGAREMA . . . . . . who is 22.—Daily Telegraph, May 6. . . . 23-year-old Princess.—Daily Sketch, May 7. * Ma. HOME . . . . . . works at an Advertising Agency without......