20 JANUARY 1956, page 5

The American Welfare State

I T would be a bit too glib, perhaps, to say that the Welfare State has this month won its final, irreversible victory in this country, but a case can certainly be made to this......

Janet Marshall Intelligence

`TRAMP BREAKS DOWN AFTER ALL-DAY GRILLING.'—Daily Mail. 'FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Avril made his dramatic statement . . . after detectives had questioned him for thirty hours.'—......

Portrait Of The Week

T HE week's foreign news has been dominated by Mr. Dulles's indiscretion in Life, an article that raises once again all the issues on which Great Britain has differed from the......