1 MARCH 1957, page 7

1 Am All On The Mcc's Side If Its Proposals

for brighter county cricket are going to end those frustrating Saturdays spent watching the batting team crawling to safety. But will they? Restricting the number of leg-side......

The Latest Volume Of German Foreign Policy Documents...

those covering the eight weeks before the outbreak of war in September, 1939, seems to me to reveal very little. The prospect entertained by Lord Halifax of Hitler being cheered......

Even Though This Extract From Hansard Has Appeared...

seems right to reproduce it here : 66. MR. HAMILTON asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education what steps he intends to take to encourage the appre- ciation......

The Supreme Soviet Decree Allowing The Scat- Tered...

some of the Asian nations deported by Serov in 1943 and 1944 to return to their homelands induces some reflections on the attitude of the leaders of opinion in the free......

Our Popular Press May Be, As Mr. Randolph Churchill Contends

on another page, a sink of iniquity; but I am grateful to it for various dis- closures in the last few days : that as an economy measure by the West Riding County Council, all......

One American Who Has Shown No Inconsistency Over The Middle

East is Mr. Spanel, a prominent businessman and a staunch friend of Britain and France. He takes columns of space in American newspapers to publicise his . own views and those......

A Spectator's Notebook

THOUGH UNDOUBTEDLY much less im- portant than the diplomatic revolu- tion of 1756, the exchange of positions between Britain and the United States in the Middle East which......

There Are Up To 150,000 Maintenance Orders In Operation In

Britain at the present day, and—if the report of The Married Women's Association is to be believed—as many as two-thirds of them may be in arrears, often because the father's......

I Must Congratulate Our Contemporary, The Twentieth Cen...

an octogena- rian; particularly as it has had to undergo three trying changes of name since its birth in 1877, when—rather naturally—it was christened the Nineteenth Century;......