11 JANUARY 1963, page 11

Spectator's Notebook

I HOPE that, when the general election comes, Mr. Gaitskell will be fully recovered and able to lead his party without any clinging doubts about his health. Even his harshest......

The Prime Minister

By HENRY FA1RLIE W HILE others talk of his possible successors, and his possible successors congratulate him a little sharply on his continuing good health, Mr. Macmillan this......

Non - Aggression Pact Lord Mountbatten's Opening Of The...

Show .gave the Fleet Street gas- sips something to bite on. Had there' been a Beaverbrook - Mountbatten rapprochement, and if so, what lay behind it? Sunday left no doubt that......

Transformation Scene

This reminded me of an occasion years ago when a word from Lord Beaverbrook trans- formed a friend of mine from a demon king into a knight in shining armour. For months he had......

To The Aid Of The Party No One Who Has

met Signor La-, Malfa, the dynamic Italian Minister for the Budget, will be surprised to hear that he is taking the lead in pressing for Italian policy to exert its maximum......

While The Iron Is Hot

The Barking power-station workers who said they would willingly work without pay to keep hospitals functioning properly provide an almost classic example of shutting the stable......