11 SEPTEMBER 1964, page 11

Predicament

It was interesting, listening to Mr. Grimond's forcefully delivered speech on Saturday, to ob- serve the ferocity of his attack on the Labour Party. It must be horribly obvious......

News Value

Some distinctly bitter complaints against the newspapers were voiced at this conference. Well, one should never expect politicians to feel that the press does full justice to......

Chosen

The Prime Minister, I hear, has now com- pleted his arrangements for his own campaign- ing at the election. He has been looking around for someone to act as his travelling......

The Unknown Borders

By WILLIAM DEAN N o area in the world is less accessible to Western observation than the frontiers between Russia and China. The two countries face each other for some 4,500......

Roads To Ruin

There seems a good case for the suggestion that a 'rural Buchanan Report' should be commis- sioned to consider the traffic problems of the National Parks. The suggestion has......

Silent Victory

At times the transistor seems the most undesir- able of all science's offerings. Any moron with a small radio can effortlessly inflict unwanted din upon scores or even hundreds......

Spectator's Notebook

THE Liberals were no doubt tempted to abandon their annual conference, as the other parties have done. Such gatherings (of any party) are either potentially explosive—as when......