11 JANUARY 1957, page 4

Petrol Muddle

IF Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, could find nothing more helpful to say, on his abrupt return from Switzerland last week, than that there was `no mess' over......

Court Intelligence

DR..JOHN BODKIN ADAMS, wearing a sprig of sham- rock in the buttonhole of his dark blue suit, again appeared before Eastbourne magistrates today for less than one minute. . . .......

Bark And Bite

ONE thing has already emerged from the warm- ing-up in preparation for the industrial struggle in 1957: that the trade unions are not in as militant a frame of mind as they were......

Nasser's Blackmail

THE Eisenhower doctrine has now been officially promul- gated, and Mr. Dulles has been locked in a grapple with the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in the course of which he......