18 DECEMBER 1953, page 7

The Dissemblers If You Write, As I Do, Under A

pseudonym and if you read—as 1, alas, too seldom and too cursorily do—the other public prints, you will sooner or later find yourself musing on the whole question of these noms......

The New Crisis

A CRISIS has come upon the Atlantic Alliance, a crisis that became obvious when Mr. Dulles told the Council of NATO, and thereafter a Press conference, that the failure to......

Studies In Impersonality Whatever Its Provenance, This...

has its uses in Fleet Street. Occasionally the writer behind the nom de plume becomes (as Beachcomber has been for years) inimitable and irreplaceable; on this page somebody,......

An Oscar For Oceanography ?

In The Robe there comes a moment when the Emperor Caligula dispatches the hero from Italy to Palestine with the words—all the better for being delivered in an American accent —"......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HERE is not necessarily a grain of truth in the account being circulated by a Chinese Nationalist news agency on Formosa of the military alliance which (the agency says) was......

Etiquette In Fleet Street • , Extracts From And References

to Sir Compton Mackenzie's article about' the Edinburgh conspiracy trial have been plentiful in the Scottish Press since it appeared in the Spectator last week; in every case......