19 JULY 1957, page 7

And While I Am On The Subject, My Congratula- Tions

must also go to Sir Bruce Ingram, who has now been editor of a national journal for longer even than C. P. Scott, of the Guardian. Talk of 'beating the record' seems to me to be......

Am Glad To See That Several Doctors Have Taken Up

the subject of tranquillisers, at the British Medical Association's meeting; for if ever the public were being defrauded by any new racket, this is it. The British Medical......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE GOVERNMENT'S elaborate appli- cation of whitewash on the Cyprus torture allegations might have been more convincing had it not coin- cided with the report of an inquest • •......

Malenkov Intelligence

HE WILL be well suited to his new job. He was trained to be an electrical engineer and so was his wife. Daily Mail, July 11. HE MADE no attempt to conceal his lack of technical......

The Queen Mother's Tour Of Northern Rhodesia Was By All

accounts very successful but judging by this advertisement in a Rhodesian paper it has given rise to a good deal of sartorial heart search- ing.......

The Sharp Rap Over The Knuckles Which The Press Council

has given the Daily Telegraph for break- ing the embargo on the United Nations report on Hungary is well deserved. The Telegraph's answer in extenuation of its cheating—that......

On The Credit Side Of Fleet Street, I Must Offer

congratulations to the Sunday Times on their 7,000th issue, in which they were able to boast that their circulation had reached 750,000—an increase of over 15 per cent over the......

One Might Have Thought, From The Flourish With Which The

Minister of Transport announced it, that the proposed forty-mile speed limit on some selected stretches of London's suburban roads Was all part of the scheme to speed up......

Westminster Commentary

LORD BROOKE OF HAVER- STOCK HILL (I anticipate, it is true, but another display like the one he gave on Tues- day and anticipation will be- come present reality) reminds me of......

Personal

For hire, Dove Gray Spats (Size 8), 9d. per hour, 1/- per hour during Royal visit. Special rates for Civil Service.—Dinham, Box 60, Kitwe. PHAROS......