16 FEBRUARY 1951, page 2

The Tangled Webb

It might have been thought that the ultimate depth of irony had been reached when, in the Commons last week, the Govern- ment received what was in effect a vote of confidence in......

Mr. Nehru's Problems

There is no doubt about the stature of Mr. Nehru as a world- figure. Partly circumstances and partly his own political sagacity and ability have made him that. For that reason......

The Choice For Mr. Nkrumah

The Governor of the Gold Coast had clearly no alternative but to release Mr. Nkrumah and his colleagues who were in gaol for sedition ; he should, none the less, be......

Steel Twilight

It is a devastating comment on the Government's attitude to the rearmament programme, in which steel must inevitably be the key material, that nobody knows what is going to......

At Santa Margherita

When men with such essentially similar outlooks on affairs as MM. Pleven and Schuman, Signor de Gasperi and Count Sforza get together in conference, emerging only from time to......