19 JANUARY 1962, page 3

Italian Lesson

T HERE is not, at first sight, anything to con- nect the two public figures who appeared so frequently on television and in the news columns of the papers earlier this week :......

—portrait Of The Week— The Government Dropped Its Veto On

the Civil Service arbitration system; leaders of the Civil Service unions took the offer as a promise and, in spite of previous experience of Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, one that would be......