17 AUGUST 1956, page 5

Portrait Of The Week

0 NCE again the Suez issue has overshadowed all other international news. As the Suez conference opens, it seems likely that a compromise solution will be reached which will......

Hope And Rumour

The less simple-minded delegates are watching neither Truman nor Eleanor Roosevelt, but Senator Lyndon Johnson. By stopping, if only temporarily, the Stevenson bandwagon, Truman......

Gaelic Intelligence

umduasAcu is word for Queen's weather.—New Chronicle. SHE ASKED 'What is the Gaelic for this kind of weather?' The Provost . . . told her, 'Tha-e-mosach.'—Daily Mirror. Q.......