17 JULY 1953, page 7

Casualty Tensing, Having Descended Scatheless From...

passage on a scenic railway and was fairly severely bitten in the arm by his wife in a moment of -unbearable......

Germany Is The Key

I N the two months that have elapsed since Sir Winston Churchill first suggested " a conference on the highest level .. . between the leading Powers, without long delay " events......

A Spectator's Notebook

W HAT has happened, or is happening, to the great mass of sincere emotions, shared by millions of people, on which the cult of Stalin was based and which were partly satisfied......

The Young Entry I Find It Difficult To Resist The

conviction—on paper an absurd one—that young men are older than they used to be. Boys leave both their private and their public schools at an earlier age than they did before......

A Splendid Man Most Well-known Figures Seem To Dwindle In

old age. Mr. Belloc, now critically ill at 83, bulks in the mind as large as ever. He is, for the time being, the last of the giants, a generous, chivalric figure, compact of......

Animals And Animosities Wednesday's Demonstrations By...

at the London Zoo were, as one would expect of a Society exactly coeval with the Spectator, of a comparatively decorous character. It is however not the first time in recent......