17 AUGUST 1962, page 8

Montgomery's Mistake

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Common Market may be, there can surely only • be agreement about the ethics of trying to enlist a revered elder statesman on one's own side......

Spectator's Notebook

T T is rather fascinating to note the way in which 'political movements run true to type. I should think that the rise and decline of CND is some- thing of a classic in the......

Night Thoughts Many Years Ago I Heard Two Lines Of

immortal verse : Nero and his sycophants Were violating their uncles and aunts. I never saw this distich in print until the recent publication of Edmund Wilson's Night Thoughts......

For Whom The Pendulum Swings

By HENRY FAIRLIE T EW costs of renovating No. 10 Downing Street have soared beyond the original estimates, it was announced last week; but the Labour Party shows little interest......

No Typists In Brussels What With Contradictory Versions...

events of the long night of Brussels flying to and fro be- tween the Foreign Office and the Quai d'Orsay, and at least one paper (a Sunday) succumbing to an obfuscating attack......