11 SEPTEMBER 1959, page 4

Don't Trust Them!

HE date of the election (the Prime Minister T said, announcing it) must be 'decided in the light of the world situation'; important inter- national negotiations lie ahead, and......

The Laos Affair

m HE situation in Laos needs looking into. There I can be no doubt that there is fighting: what we need to know is how far inside Laotian territory it is taking place, on what......

Classical Scholars

By DARSIE GILLIE C ONGRESSES suggest decisions. When classical scholars meet in international congresses, what do they decide? Nothing. Above all, they do not talk about......

Next Week

And Stalin Smiled WHEN, on July 24. 1945, President Truman told Stalin of the decision to drop a bomb of unprecedented power on Japan, Stalin— according to the Churchill -......