19 OCTOBER 1962, page 6

Spectator's Notebook

A DULL Labour Party conference is an im- possibility: the shifts by which the leader- ship asserts and balances itself on top of the furious civil war that rages all the time......

President And Parties

PARIS From DARSIE GILLIE RESIDENT DE GAULLE is engaged in deliber- ately making enemies of the second of the tw o groups that brought him into power in 1958. With the first he......

Harmless Hats

No doubt about it: the men and women crammed into that inelegant pavilion under the Great Orme gav e the strongest impression tOt merely of unity (that is easy enough for theme......

Mr. Kennedy's Winning Gamble?

From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK N America aroused against Fidel Castro at the month's beginning has been pronounced quiescent in the month's middle. Dr. George Gallup's newest poll......