13 DECEMBER 1957, page 8

'seven Brave Men' The Evening News Called The Members Of

the Electrical Trades Union who appeared on Panorama the other evening : 'They have defied the grim little Communist oligarchy which controls their Union.' And the next day Mr.......

When Douglas Fairbanks Jr Took Me To Task A Few

weeks ago for suggesting that his films were not British, I did not immediately reply; my viewing is sporadic, and I felt that I might have judged them from too small a sample.......

What Would Grandmama Have Thought?

By ROBERT BLAKE " TODAY twenty-three years ago dear Grand- ." mama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government !' Thus King George V wrote in his diary on......

I See That Taper Discusses The Prime Minister's Broadcast At

length. What surprised me about it was not the banality of phrase but what he was trying to say. Whoever put it into Mr. Macmillan's head that it was the Prime Minister's job to......

If Mr. Fairbanks Can Sell This Sort Of Thing For

dollars, more power to him. My concern is merely that the label 'British' should not be put by others to misleading use. For example : this week, repeats of no fewer than five......

R Am Glad To Hear That The Centenary Of Conrad's

birth, about which I wrote a week or two ago, is not passing uncommemorated by the British authorities. An exhibition of books and photo- graphs has been sent out to Poland,......

From The Daily Sketch:

The Tories have kept their seat in the Garston division of Liverpool—but their majority has been slashed by 7,665. . . . The new MP is a 42-year-old barrister. He said 'This......