18 JANUARY 1957, page 7

I Saw An Appalling Thriller Called Lisbon (or Rather The

first half of it) the other night. It did, however, contain the following line, spoken by the master-mind to his secretary: You're getting more stupid every day, Selwyn; this......

I See That Among Communist Leaders In The Market For

a United Front is Dr. Cheddi Jagan, the split in whose People's Progressive Party of British Guiana has evidently given him to think. The remits of his meditations are revealed......

It Is Now Iwo Years Almost To The Day Since

I first argued that the Hunter fighter was a liability. This was not the product of any inside informa- tion : the aircraft's failings had long been known, and discussed on more......

A Spectator's Notebook

BOTH THE STATEMENT of the Labour Shadow Cabinet and Mr. GritIiths's broadcast were careful to absolve the Crown from any blame, but the Labour Party has contrived to convey a......

Portrait Of The Week

Reactions abroad to this upheaval have been pretty mixed. Greece and Egypt rejoice in the 'triumph of right,' but most Western countries have paid handsome tributes to Sir......

From The Horse's Mouth Sir Anthony Eden's Return And The

message with which he marked it should put a halt to ill - informed and often ill - natured rumours that he was about to resign because of ill health. . --Sunday Times, December......

Lord Salisbury's Visit To The Queen Caused A Good Deal

of suspicion in some quarters and some dark murmurings about the age-old power of his family. Though in a sense, of course, his visit revealed the opposite; he was almost the......

The Political Correspondents Of The National...

of one free-lance, Mr. Randolph Churchill—ought to be hanging their heads in shame. Those of them Who tipped at all, tipped Mr. Butler as the new Prime Minister. Why, I wonder,......

A Problem To Which The Labour Relations Experts Should Turn

their attention is how to stop manage- ments setting themselves up as judges in their own case. This reflection is induced by reading the recent reports of the Monopoly......