17 JUNE 1960, page 4

Choosing Your Friends

H AD it not been for the ill-starred flight of the U2, President Eisenhower would now be visiting the Soviet Union—and receiving, no doubt, a friendlier welcome than he looks......

County Hall Ombudsmand

T HE proposal tor a London Ombudsmand, presented to .he London County Council in the form of a pe aion, is naturally being fiercely resisted by Sir lsa t. Ha ward and the rest......

Espionage

n OOR Roger Casement! It seems his ghost is r not to be allowed to rest; on a television programme this week he was cited as an example of a spy, along with Matra Hari, Fuchs,......

Blind And In Pain

From that wide-ringed trouble a Thing came up—a grey and red Thing with a neck—a Thing that bellowed and writhed in pain. Frithiof drew in his breath and . . said with a little......

On The European Foothills

T HERE are two Anglo-Saxon attitudes which the leaders of the new Europe find particu- larly irritating. One, frequently displayed by Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, is the 'but of course......