16 FEBRUARY 1962, page 3

On The Spot

M k. IRUSHCHEV'S suggestion of an eighteen-nation . meeting of Heads of State to open disarmament talks in Geneva is nicely ,calculated to put Western governments on the spot.......

Coalition In Italy

From MICHAEL ADAMS ROME F OR two weeks the Italian newspapers have been full of contradictory bulletins on the progress of 'la crisi,' which it would be mis- leading to......