20 NOVEMBER 1964, page 11

What Chance Has Mr. Brown?

By ERIC JACOBS THE task Mr. George Brown has set himself may well prove to be the major diplomatic exercise of this Government. Diplomacy is the right word, because the essence......

Spectator's Notebook

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Success Story Success Story In 1957 The Overseas Service...

Bureau was set up to help those who retired or were retired as the dependent territories of the Commonwealth became independent. The Secre- tary of State for the Colonies in......

Mr. Nixon Surfaces

From MURRAY KEMPTON M R. NIXON seems to have surfaced as prime candidate to command the receivership of the Republican Party. The prize is worth having; politics remains a......

Her Father's Daughter

Leo Baron is well known to readers of the Spectator. A solicitor in Bulawayo (and, inci- dentally, a few years ago one of the most brilliant bridge players in Britain), he has......

Lorries On The Moors

If we can get the Ombudsman to work in time he might start by having a look at the proposal of the North Riding County Council to build a lorry route from Hetton-le-Hole to......

What Is A Civil Servant?

It is a tradition of the House of Commons that civil servants are not attacked in the House. This is partly because they are unable to reply, but chiefly because they are......

No • Comment

Extract from leaflets issued this week by the Friends of Barry Goldwater in Britain: Barry Goldwater still leads the Republican Party and he has a very good chance of securing......

Fit To Rule

The Observer, in commenting on a letter of mine in The Times, misstates my view of the con- stitutional position following a government de- feat in the House of Commons. I was......