22 AUGUST 1958, page 4

Hope In Hopelessness

T HERE was little chance of an agreed settle- ment in Cyprus, but what there was dis- appeared with the news of the refusal to allow Archbishop Makarios to return to the,......

More Trouble In Tartary

By J. E. M. ARDEN T HE susceptible young girl who is prone to think of some swine of a man as practically perfect may be disillusioned by his behaviour. But, often enough, this......

The Song Is Ended

W HATEV ER the merits of President Eisen- hower's Middle East proposals, they are too obviously a desperate effort to pay the Egyptian barrel-organist to wheel his machine away......