10 SEPTEMBER 1954, page 6

Quid Pro Quo

'Nevertheless, Mr. Attlee must have foreseen that the trip would put him and his colleagues in, at times, an equivocal position, for only a booby could have failed to foresee......

The Hammer, The Sickle And The Cross

It would be interesting to know both what is behind the new drive against religion in Russia and how it is being con- ducted. As to the methods employed, the authorities can of......

Brighton Rock

T HE Trades Union Congress at Brighton has had some difficulty in providing itself with useful employment. It is hard to escape the impression that the union leaders had already......

The Announcement, Made On Tuesday Without Prior Warning...

small editorial staff or the regular contributors, that Messrs. George Newnes will cease, for economic reasons,' to publish John O'London's Weekly after this week's issue has......

A Spectator's Notebook I Cannot Help Feeling Rather Sorry...

Attlee, his fellow-travellers and everyone connected with their excur- sion to the Far East—the editors who will have to do ;oniething with the articles they write, the......

Down Among The Z-men

Getting one's name into the London Telephone Directory does not confer quite the same cachet as getting it into Who's Who; but it must be both convenient and abstrusely distin-......

Reverie In Regent Street

How very seldom one sees women nowadays dressed in really bad taste. A lot of them dress badly. and some of them dress eccentrically; but the major excesses—the clashing......