20 JULY 1951, page 5

The Idea Of A Naval Coup De Main Must Always

have an appeal for the British, and the project for asserting our right of passage in the Suez Canal by sending a tanker through it under naval escort has at first sight a kind......

A Spectator's Notebook T He Project For Diverting Fifteen...

of the B.B.C.'s revenue from licence-holding listeners and viewers into the public funds has revived (in my mind, at any rate) a basic dilemma in the field of citizenship. Out......

But If We All Emulated, As Far As Possible, This

prudent fellow,' how grave would be the financial plight of our community !! From the point of view of his fellows' pockets the ideal' citizen is a fearful rip. He drinks like a......

The Ideal Citizen Is A Terribly Difficult Figure To...

If you look at him in the light of his own economic interests, you seem to see an austere, abstemious figure, domiciled in a barge (to avoid paying rates and to lessen the......

Margam Or Margarine ?

I N a single phrase, in his speech at the opening of the great new Margam Abbey steel works on Tuesday, Mr. Hugh Gaitskell managed to turn an industrial into a political......

News, An English-language Periodical Which Made Its First...

Moscow this week and which is dedicated to the . cause of co-operation between Russia and the West, may h ave some deep international significance ; but I find that it is upon......

But Once You Start Thinking On These Lines You Get

into deep water. One of the objects of the Welfare State is to enable its citizens to lead " a full life." Nobody has yet laid down what a full life ought to be full of, but it......