19 AUGUST 1960, page 3

— Portrait Oi The Week— The Trial Opened In Moscow Of

Francis Powers, accused of espionage, who pleaded guilty, and a reprieve was refused for Peter Poole, sentenced to death in Nairobi for the murder of his African houseboy. The......

Reasons Of State: Russia

C OMMENT on the Powers trial before it began ranged between two extremes: on the one hand, those newspapers which produced scarify- ing accounts of the treatment to which the......

Reasons Of State: Kenya

T HE wind of change has blown some odd things through the doorways of Africa, but none would be odder and more ironic than the refusal - to reprieve Peter Poole, sentenced to......

The Spectator

No. 6895 Established FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1828 1960......