10 SEPTEMBER 1965, page 10

'colour Bar' Cricket . . .

Paul Johnson, in his New Statesman column last week, wrote about 'so-called sportsmen' par- ticipating in 'colour-bar cricket' at the same time as I was writing about the South......

Mr. Speaker It Is A Sad Commentary On Our Times

that the death in office of a Speaker should have been the occasion for frantic calculations about the likely effect on the Government's majority, rather than of tribute to the......

Half A Match

Prices in Portugal are, I am told, very low. The country is also very austere. The Ritz in Lisbon is the only place I have heard of in the world where if you ask for matches you......

. . . And Rugby

The sad truth that this is not a problem for those directly involved is underlined by a report in. Tuesday's Guardian on reactions in New Zealand to Dr. Verwoerd's rejection of......

Spectator's Notebook

W E seldom think about Germany, but after the coming Federal elections I doubt if we shall be able to avoid it. It is true that 'these are being fought between two broadly......

London Pride

Imperial War Museum By DAVID ROGERS T HE Imperial War Museum now stands in the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, off the Lambeth Road. It was firSt housed in the Crystal Palace,......

Monroe Doctrine

A pamphlet just published by the Law Society on capital gains tax and corporation tax is inilia- ally intended for the guidance of its members : but it really deserves a wider......

Tailpiece

But I do wish all concerned would stop and think what would be the consequences of a surrender over steel. Imagine the yelp of triumph from Mr. Macleod! . . —Michael Foot in......