16 MARCH 1956, page 7

Dublin Intelligence

SEVENTEEN THOUSAND farmers from all parts of Ireland converged on Dublin yesterday. Manchester Guardian, March 7. TWENTY THOUSAND farmers left their dairy herds yesterday and......

Lord Bessborough, Who Died Last Week At The Age Of

seventy- six, had a distinguished career in several fields, but perhaps his greatest success was as Governor-General of Canada in the early Thirties. He was a man of great charm......

If I Were Not Already Sure That Restrictive Trade Practices

are harmful, the efforts made by some of the practitioners to cover their tracks would convince me. A few days ago I saw a memorandum on restrictive practices sent out with the......

I Had Thought That The Elevation Of Mr. J. P.

L. Thomas to the Westminster Upper Deck might reduce the flow of bromides about the Navy. But no : 'The principal striking power of the Navy today,' the Commons were informed......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE HOME OFFICE cut a sorry figure in its attempt on the eve of the Commons debate on hanging to discredit Mr. Arthur Koestler for his Observer article on the instructions given......

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE S EVERAL days before Archbishop Makarios was 'ushered' — d eli ghtful euphemism—into the waiting RAF aeroplane, all the Commonwealth Governments had been......