18 MAY 1956, page 7

It Has Been Clear For Some Time That The Home

Office does not feel itself bound by the normal rules of civilised behaviour; but its failure to produce the Casement Diaries is so incomprehen- sible that I think it must be......

A Spectator's Notebook

1 , () R ONE WHO is such a painstaking, not to say laborious, .student of foreign affairs, Mr. Dulles is astonishingly light- he arted when it comes to making a phrase or giving......

Hongkong] There Is Everything To Buy From Soap And...

eggs and nutmegs. English-looking rosy-cheeked apples priced oddly in Chinese characters. . . .'—The Times Special Correspondent in the first of six articles on a 'Far Eastern......

Political Commentary

By HENRY FAIRLIE r r HE Government let it be known last week that it had refused to raise the salaries of MPs and julli ° t Ministers. So far this disclosure has caused little......

Although Sir Hugh Lucas-tooth No Doubt Genuinely Thought...

first amendment to Mr. Silverman's Bill to abolish the death penalty (that which would have left the supreme punishment for murders committed during robberies) would help the......

About Half A Century Ago A. D. Godley Wrote A

poem about a quarrel over an island between Greece and England. The island that Greece wanted then was not Cyprus. 'The Isle of Wight!' said Parliament, and shuddered at the......