23 JULY 1965, page 7

Political Commentary

The Home Office Muddle By ALAN WATKINS PARTICULARLY against books the Home Secre- r tary is,' observes the customs officer in Vile Bodies before committing the manuscript of......

The Fighter Little Doubt, I Think, That The Dramatic Career

of Dr. Syngman Rhee, who died in Honolulu this week at the age of ninety, was one of the most turbulent of the twentieth century. It is sad that Rhee died in virtual exile from......

Mps' Chart Mr. Andrew Roth's Summarised And Charted...

Members of Parliament are sadly superficial. His pamphlet however becomes hilarious because—at least in my copy—two pages are misplaced. Accordingly the personal characteristics......

Spectator's Notebook

riloudirr I would write something nice about the Prime Minister this week. I have not perhaps always been as generous as I might have from to him, and I have had a letter (one......

Gus Air-marshal Sir Augustus Walker Is To Be The Next

President of the Rugby Union, and a very popular one he will be. No one will lose more gracefully to us at Murrayfield next March. My favourite rugger boast is that once I......

Lib-lab Pact °n Wednesday Last Week The Entire Liberal Army

of ten MPs . marched away from the sound ,, gunfire to vote in favour of Mr. Cousin's T a stery of technology. The next day when it was , question of voting against the......

The Queen's Horses—and The Queen's Men Harry Legge-bourke...

a dozen years in the Blues before entering Parliament in 1945. Now he has written, or rather rewritten, for his book first appeared in 1951, an enthralling account of the......

Forward From Gothic It Is Not Easy To Become Enthusiastic

about a piece of town planning which, it is said, may take fifty years to complete. Still, the plan for rede- veloping Whitehall and Parliament Square de- serves a general......