11 MARCH 1955, page 5

Handshake

`Ct HAKING hands with him for the first time, my feeling was of suspicion and doubt that the man whose hand I seized would respect the constitution and fulfil agreements. We......

Snarling Over The Saar T He Perpetual Muttering Of France...

Germany round the rich morsel of the Saar rose to a snarl over the week- end. With the ratification debate on the Paris agreements due to take place in the Bundesrat on March......

The Future Of Malta

T HE victory of Mr. Mintoff's Labour Party in the Maltese general election confronts the British Government with a problem in colonial policy of an unusually flattering kind.......

Treason?

T HE Attorney-General's remark in the Commons this week, that it should not be assumed that if Winnington and Shapiro, the two Daily Worker correspondents, returned to this......

Armed Police

T HE cry 'Arm the police' is heard less frequently nowadays: but anybody who imagines that he would feel safer if they carried firearms would do well to read the report of a......

Two Ways Of Fighting Communism

T HE abdication of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in favour of his father, Prince Suramit, follows close on the objections made by the International Armistice Commission in......