13 APRIL 1956, page 30

Performing Bears

IN 1917 Lenin replaced Marx's thesis that industrialisation and a proletarian population can create a Socialist State, by its opposite —the theory that a State controlled by......

The Death Penalty

REFLECTIONS ON tIANGING. By Arthur Koestler. (Gollancz, 12s. 60 IT has become a routine incantation of the defenders of capita' punishment that abolitionists are emotionalists,......

Communicado

IN 1953 scholars of diverse interests, but chiefly members of University College, London, met to form a Communications Research Centre. The enterprise was to promote the......