15 MARCH 1957, page 4

The Political Scene

T HE results of the 'little election' may have surprised some people, but they can hardly have surprised the Government. When Mr. Macmillan became Prime Minister there was an......

Power And Prestige

O N both sides to the engineering and ship- building dispute, the determination has grown to make a fight of it. This is not because of any particular rancour between them; nor......

Analytical Re-appraisal

F UTURE historians are going to have some diffi- culty in deciding at what point British Middle Eastern policy began to go wrong. The errors accumulated in ten years have been......

Canal Intelligence

FOR US in Europe it is a matter of vital importance to maintain the canal as an international waterway. — Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, October 12,1956. IT IS NO exaggeration to say that......