17 DECEMBER 1965, page 11

Fallible Itdol M. Mitterand, It Seems, May Come Near It

after all. General de Gaulle has been shown to be fallible, vulnerable and above all capable of being defeated. Once this has happened, the current is almost bound to continue......

Playing It By Ear It Has Taken Mr. Grimond Five

weeks and four public opinion polls to discover that Mr. Wilson is playing Rhodesia by ear, and to express his horror. I am not disturbed when Mr. Wilson is playing by ear: only......

Mein Gott I Am Very Interested In The Hull North

by- election. So is Mr. Wilson. So is the Radical Alliance which is putting forward Mr. Richard Gott as its candidate. I am not quite clear what the Radical Alliance is in......

Spectator's Notebook

T HE Prime - Minister, I hope, goes to the United States to explain and to listen, not to advise. He has left behind him a Foreign Office Blue Book on the British involvement in......

Pantaloon On November 12, The Day After Udi, Mr. Bottomley,

the Secretary of State for Common- wealth Relations, proclaimed Mr. Ian Smith to be 'a man of character and integrity.' Four weeks later Mr. Bottomley told the House of Commons......

Lawry's Lives

I dislike December. I dislike cold Weather. . I dislike getting up, at 6 a.m. I dislike Monday morning. But to get up at 6 a.m. (tea-time in. Australia) on a cold December......

Tailpiece I Heard On Television On Sunday Evening That 'it

is stressed in Whitehall that Mr. Wilson has given no thought to a March general election.' Any other competitor for the least likely news......

John Bull's First Job

Goodbye to All That By ROY HATTERSLEY, MP W HEN I was twelve I was desperate for the ownership of the steel industry to pass into different hands—mine. I was not moved by the......

Grounded Kites

' On the decision to purchase the US F-111, the Prime Minister is again holding his breath. The time taken to complete the defence review gives him a further excuse. But we......