16 JULY 1954, page 7

The Humourless Cockneys

I do not wish to say a word against the LCC, the Ministry of Transport, the Metropolitan Police or any of the other authorities who may be directly or indirectly concerned with......

A Punch-drunk Public

It proved to be a highly enjoyable game for the panel (a word which, originating as a technical term in the craft of saddlery, graduated to meaning a list of jurors and then of......

H-hour At Lime Grove

High up at the far end of the hangar-like studio an electric . admonition appeared, like the ' Fasten Your Safety Belts. No Smoking' notice when an aircraft is Preparing to......

A Spectatqr's Notebook

I • T was announced at the weekend that the American garrison on Hokkaido, the more northerly of Japan's two main islands, is shortly to be relieved by some 50,000 men f or......

The Crypto-royalists

As I read of the frantic enthusiasm which Princess Margaret's visit is arousing among the Germans I remem- bered the first occasion on which I got an inkling of their latent but......

Rainbow Railways

Comedians and radio script-writers are, I suspect, the only people whose interests are threatened by the pro- posals to decentralise our railway system, for these may lead, in......

The Pledge And The Deed

T HIS should have been the week for a re-statement, in positive and practical terms, of British foreign policy. Sir Winston Churchill's statement on Monday on his recent visit......