21 DECEMBER 1962, page 9

The Zionists' Dilemma

The Israel Supreme Court's decision that a Jew ceases to be a Jew when he adopts another religion solved one problem for the Israeli autho- rities and their fellow-Zionists, but......

A Good Face The Vexations Of The Season Thicken Around

us, like the fog through which the garish Christ- mas trees of Oxford Street and the artier oriental kings of Regent Street were glooming the other week. In one form or another......

Spectator's Notebook

L ORD SANDWICH is right when he says that the proposals of the joint committee on House of Lords reform are 'ideally made for Mr. Wedgwood Berm.' They would solve his problem,......

Jump For It

`Beware of turning traffic,' say the posters, and well may we heed their warning. At two busy intersections near this office one may see, at any time of the day, both young and......

Naked To The Enemy It Seems That At Long Last

steps have been taken to remedy some of the more glaring weaknesses in the conventional equipment of the British forces in Germany. The feeblest arm of the ser- vice is the......

Compromise And Barter

By ANGUS MAUDE All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. —Edmund Burke. W HEN politics......