11 FEBRUARY 1955, page 6

I Appear To Have Annoyed Mr. John Gordon By Pointing

out the two blunders he made in his attack on the Spectator the week before last. Of course, the objects of his attacks do not usually have an opportunity to reply. But Mr.......

It Is Odd How Loosely Politicians Use Literary Allusions...

they are angry. The latest case of a quotable cap hardly fitting is M. Rene Mayer's denunciation of M. Francois Mauriac, the writer and Nobel Prize winner, under the thin......

'i Do Not Rejoice At Mr. Morgan Phillips's Recovery,'...

G. D. H. Cole has informed the Oxford University Labour Party. 'In fact, 1 wish he were dead.' Subsequently Professor Cole has explained that politically he meant every word he......

'the Pollution Of A Man's Character By Libel Or Slander

is a matter personal to him. The pollution of a river may be pro- ductive of manifold mischief in varying degrees to many dif- ferent people.' With this judgement Lord Justice......

A Spectator's Notebook

IT is probably true that few Archbishops make a less distinct impression on lay minds than the Archbishop of York, and yet few in a long and varied career have put up such a......

Were Signs That Others On The Right Wing Were In

danger of succumbing to it as well. But now? Here is Mr. McNeil writing that, after the eclipse of Mr. Malenkov, `the probability must be that co-existence at this moment in......