18 JUNE 1965, page 5

Too Clever By Half?

W LIEN the American bombings in Vietnam first started, the Prime Minister probably made a simple calculation : that they would soon be over and that the best thing to do was to......

Ere The Spider . . .

IJILARY SPURLING writes: 'Homage to T. S. Eliot' on Sunday evening had the same smooth way. 'neither diffident nor ostentatious,' with heterogeneous material as one of Eliot's......

Thomson And 'the Times'

CHRISTOPHER BOOKER writes: Amid squid-like clouds of the blackest secrecy. plans have been laid over the past few weeks for the biggest earthquake in newspaper ownership since......