23 DECEMBER 1966, page 6

The Birth Of Newspeak

THE PRESS By DONALD McLACHLAN T SHALL follow Fleet Street's example over 'Christmas and take a few days' rest from the troubles of the Guardian and of Lord Thomson's evening......

The Real Prison Scandal

MITCHELL By GILES PLAYFAIR The vital question arises, though, of whether Mitchell should ever have been sent to Dart- moor, where there is no sort of psychiatric ser- vice......

A Queen And Her Servant

AMERICA From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK I r is both ironic and di ffi cult to remember that in March of 1964 Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy announced that the heirs of John F.......