12 JULY 1968, page 8

The Cancerous Society

RUSSIA TIBOR SZAMUELY Many years ago, at a Soviet Communist party conference, the party secretary of Tula Region, reporting on the splendid cultural progress of his satrapy,......

Spectator's Notebook

J. W. M. THOMPSON The case for public participation in town plan- ning decisions has been urged very strongly from many quarters recently, and certainly there is something......