1 JULY 1955, page 19

A Spectator's Notebook

MORE AND MORE I am driven to the conclusion that the Com- munist regimes regard Orwell's novels not as satires but as useful handbooks of suggestions. Last year, for the first......

Beaverbrook Intelligence

`SOCIALIST MPs gave Mr. Aneurin Bevan one of the biggest slaps of his career last night.'—Daily Express, June 24. `IT IS BEING SAID that the Socialist Left wing has been knocked......

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T HE build-up has started. Mr. Jim Griffiths is being given the full Fleet Street treatment. Mr. Marks in the Daily Express started it, and it has been......