22 OCTOBER 1965, page 8

Those Jails

Perhaps some of the London jails really will be sold up to make way for housing—the.suggestion put forward by George Hutchinson in the Spec- tator three weeks ago. The proposal......

Spectator's Notebook

T HAT admirable and infuriating paper the Daily Express knows very well that I neither . write nor direct the political column of the Spectator, but when it suits its grave......

Jonathan Aitken Resisting The Temptation To Comment On...

in favour of the Salisbury addendum to the Rhodesia motion debated last Friday at Brighton, I concentrate on the speech by Jonathan Aitken against it. Few speeches made from the......

Garfield Todd Whatever Else Happens This Week In...

Mr. Smith declares for a UDI this year, next year, some time or never, no one in this country will have any other words than those of contemptuous condemnation for Mr. Smith's......

Trial In Teheran A Number Of Puzzling And Disturbing Circum-

stances surround the trial now going on before a military court in Teheran of fourteen young Persians. The prosecution has asked for the death penalty for four of them accused......

Dream Cricket Ideal Conference Bedtime Reading Is...

away from politics as possible. I took with me to Brighton •John Arlott's admirable Rothman's Jubilee History of Cricket 1890-1965 (Arthur Barker, 21s.), so that I thought about......

Sunday In Saigon

KENNEDY A a journalist one never learns. From a distance every city at war seems beleaguered. alert, tense, its shops empty, its way of life austere. Yet often when you get......

Editorial

Another book I have read this week is a volume of memoirs by Sir Colin Coote (Editorial, just published by Eyre and Spottiswoode). Sir Colin was of course the managing editor of......