17 FEBRUARY 1956, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

LOVERS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES will, no doubt, be suitably pained to learn that Donald Maclean should have been followed by plain-clothes policemen wherever he went before his flight......

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T the moment of writing the debate on capital punish- ment has not been held, but whatever the result of the free vote, it seems clear that much will depend on......

In Disenchantment C.e. Montague Described The Odd Process...

military leaders , gain and keep their reputations: Haig's, for example—'Wherever he was, nameless waves of some sort rippled out through an uncharted ether, convexing some......

Dr. G. M. Trevelyan Is Eighty This Week And The

Regius Pro- fessor of Modern History at Cambridge writes about him on another page. Sir Winston Churchill. Sir George Clark, Professor Butterfield among others intend to......

I Feel Rather Sorry For Sir Robert Fraser. A Few

days ago he tried to prove, in a letter to The Times, that commercial tele- vision is doing as much for the serious viewer as the BBC. His thesis was turned upside down, shaken,......

Muscovite Intelligence Moscow's National Hotel. With Its...

the last place 1 should have expected Burgess and Maclean to choose for their reappearance. — Daily Telegraph. February 13, p. 6. THE Room in which we met was heavy with......