19 JULY 1963, page 5

Whose Poison Gas?

By DESMOND STEWART rr HE headlines of the Daily Telegraph on I July 8 were categoric: 'Nasser's Planes Use Poison Gas.' Then followed the dreary attempt to name Egypt's ruler .......

Political Commentary

Evolving a Leader By DAVID WATT rrI:. RE is a stage of acute stress—or drink, 1 if you like—at which the sufferer's face sud- denly seems to dissolve. Strange lines appear on it......

Cracks In !he Carapace

ROBERT CONQUEST writes: `So was the Thirty Years War,' was one com- mentator's reply to the suggestion that the Sino- Soviet dispute was no more than a conflict within a shared......