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In The Callaghan-blackburn-oxford Union Controversy I...

embroil myself, but one outcome of it seems a welcome contribution to the gaiety of nations. Mr. Cal- laghan declined to debate with Mr. Blackburn, so Mr. Black- burn has......

* * * * 1 It Might Be Instructive If

a number of what are reckoned cultured persons gave a list of the English classics they have never -read. . Some weeks ago I acquired (comparatively honestly) a copy of the......

Mr. Bevan's Decision To Appoint A Special Committee, And A

singularly strong one, to enquire unto the claim of the Welsh non-medical practitioner, Mr. Rees Evans, to have discovered a successful treatment for cancer must be counted......

A Spectator's Notebook

I WAS reading during last week-end the recollections of Baron von Weiszacker, which have just been published in Germany, and was deep in them when (turning from book to......

In One Passage Of His Blackpool Speech Last Saturday Mr.

Churchill slipped on to rather dangerous ground. " Even the six votes of their (The Government's) majority," he said, " would not be theirs—on the contrary there would be six......

Shall The United Nations Work ?

N OTHING more momentous has been discussed by the United Nations in its short and chequered history than Mr. Dean Acheson's proposals, under debate . at Lake Success this week,......