20 MARCH 1964, page 11

Tailpiece Four Cheers For The Decision That Sir Michael...

and his merry men are to run British Lion. The Spectator takes a modest pride in the part it has played in the result. At a celebration party' both Boulting brothers expressed......

Galloping Fever Two Weeks Ago, So A Respected Rival Journal

assures us, the Labour Party in Parliament faced grimly up to the prospect that their long lead in the poll charts had disappeared. Ashen-faced they murmured in unison. 'we have......

Distant Venture

Frustration is so much a part of the creative architect's lot today in this country that one feels a vicarious pleasure in the unique opportunity suddenly presented to Peter and......

Who Speaks For Me? I Have Just Received My New

copy of the Auto- mobile Association handbook. It has been sub- jected to certain austerity measures, I see. For one thing, it will have to last for two years in stead of one as......

After The Crisis

With the arrival of the first contingent of the UN force in Cyprus it looks as if the really critical situation may at last be over. It has given Way in fact to one of unending......

Progress Report

This in reply to those correspondents who ask me how my two chess games with Philidor are going. We have taken them at a very gentle pace and have only reached the El Alamein......

—finding The Man

All this is nothing, however, compared to the complexitieS of finding a mediator acceptable at once to Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and Britain. The following are out anyone whose......

Winning The Presidency Just A Hundred Years Ago, A Few

days after Ulysses S. Grant was placed in command of the entire military forces of the United States, The Times at least had no doubt where lay the canker at the heart of the......

Spectator's Notebook

OCCASIONAL Paper No. 3 published by the Institute of Economic Affairs is an entrancing academic argu- ment about the National Health Service. On my left the redoubtable......