17 OCTOBER 1958, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

`I MUST REPEAT,' the Prime Minister told the Conservative Party Con- gress, 'that the problem of Cyprus is not a colonial but an inter- national question.' I wish he had acted......

Lennox Robinson Died On The Eve Of The Publica- Tion

of The Oxford Book of Irish Verse, of which he was one of the editors. I had not seen him for Some time, but not many months ago I had listened delighted to that high voice of......

The South African Government Ought To Welcome The Present...

of dropping the prosecution of their ill-famed 'Treason Trial.' The decision of the leader of the prosecution, Mr. Oswald Pirow, QC, to withdraw the indictment, provides just......

When Should The Chairman Of The Conservative Party Make An

indifferent speech instead of a good speech? The answer, according to 'Peter- borough' in the Daily Telegraph, is : 'When he is speaking on the same day as the Prime Minister.'......

Violence At Blackpool

LAST Saturday afternoon, just as the Prime Minister rose to address the mass meeting with which the Conservative Party conference ended, a young man in the balcony gave three......

The University Church At Oxford Can Have Heard Few Stranger

sermons than that preached last Sunday by Professor Kilpatrick on the sub- ject of homosexuality. 'It is open to any senior member of this university,' he said, `to corrupt our......