17 MAY 1957, page 8

I Have Been Reading Copies Of The Correspondence That Has

been passing between the citizens of Aylesbury and the authorities on the case of Aylesbury Grammar School; and my sympathies are with the citizens. Their grammar school has......

Whether It Is Because The Actors Have Had Too Long

to rehearse their parts, or whether it is because Lord Russell of Liverpool has joined in with one of his regular changes of party, or whether it is merely because of the......

A Number Of Readers Spotted An Apparent Dis- Crepancy In

the articles by St. John Ervine and Montgomery Hyde, in our Ulster number, con- cerning the date on which Ireland became a Republic. But in fact both were right. Mr. Ervine was......

Doubt If Anyone Who Thought That Sir Anthony Eden's Policy

over Suez was wrong will be made to change their opinion materially by T. E. Utley's apologia Not Guilty (Macgibbon and Kee, 10s. 6d.). The first two-thirds of the book do not......

Sir William Beach Thomas Died Last Sunday At The Age

of eighty-nine. The Times in its obituary called him 'One of the most distinguished journal- ists of his generation,' and the epithet was well chosen. Fair, scrupulous,......

Tories And The Public Schools

By ANGUS MAUDE, MP W H1LE the intellectuals of the Labour Party have for some years been producing plans for the socialisation of the public schools, the Con- servative Party......