15 MAY 1959, page 7

Branded In The Public Imagination As The Author Of The

Hoare-Laval pact (the details of which not one brander in twenty could tell you), Lord Templewood never had a chance to regain high office; yet his reputation stood higher at......

A Spectator's Notebook

'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE,' according to the magistrate who investi- gated the brutalities in the Mau Mau detention camp, 'to determine beyond reasonable doubt which injuries on the......

Westminster Commentary

'Ruts hot weather is affecting my nerves. Figure to yourself : there I was the other day, sitting with a Member in the tea-room, idly sipping a cup of something that 1 presume......

`history,' The Sunday Times Tells Us, 'will Record...

the ascent to the summit, Viscount Montgomery's personal mission to Moscow has been the decisive guidance of a pathfinder or the distracting riddle of a Yeti's spoor.' I have a......

Mr. Knox Cunningham Suggests In Our Correspon- Dence...

'it would be hard to imagine the BBC broadcasting, at the time of the killing of a British serviceman's wife in Cyprus, a repeat programme in which one of the speakers praised......

A Common Complaint, Incidentally, Against Aboli-...

been extensively used as a result of the scenes at the hanging of Mar- wood--is that they reserve their pity for the murderer and his relatives, forgetting the victim. If this......