1 MAY 1953, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

T . HE hullabaloo which is being raised in some quarters about Prince Akihito's advent in this country seems to me both foolish and unbecoming. In the last war the conduct not......

0345 Hours I Sleep Like A Log, But At A

quarter to four yesterday morning the sound of yelping penetrated my habitual trance. The two hundred odd ewes and lambs in the big field below - the house were crying, and I......

The Vandals "i Observe," Said My Friend From Ruritania, "

that there is trouble because someone has discovered that a year ago an ancient burial ground, sixty feet long and overgrown with bushes, was flattened in order to prepare the......

I Always Look Forward •to The Tailor And Cutter's 'single-

minded comments on the pictures in the Royal Academy, and I could wish that its somewhat specialised approach to the problems of art criticism was more widely employed. How......

Bright Idea Against The Background Of The Korean...

Mark Clark's, offer of 100,000 dollars to any Communist pilot , who deserts with his MiG '15 seems to me ill-timed. The prisoner of war problem, which is the main obstacle to a......

Strictly Technical ?

T a Press conference a little time ago the Egyptian Minister of National Guidance, Fuad Galal, was asked whether the forthcoming talks with Great Britain would be purely......