18 MARCH 1960, page 4

Spare The Politician

PHE Express has described as 'shocking' the 1. news that political opponents of Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana may be flogged. This will come as some surprise to its readers, who have......

Turn Of The Tide

O NE of the hardest arguments to counter in international affairs runs along these lines: 'agreed that Verwoerd (Franco, Tito, Nkrumah, Salazar, Castro) is behaving badly, by......

Back-bencher

t HE news that Dick Crossman has been eased off the Opposition front bench should occa- sion little surprise; the wonder is that he has lasted so long. The resolute......

Sancta Clause

M R. CROSSMAN'S limitations as a political thinker have seldom been more clearly exposed than they are in the article on Clause 4 of the Labour Party constitution which he has......

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Spring Books Number Articles, reviews and poems by PATRICK CAMPBELL, JOHN COLEMAN, MONICA FURLONG, PENELOPE GILLIATT, WILLIAM GOLDING, ROBERT GRAVES, ROY JENKINS, STEPHEN......