23 MAY 1970, page 8

Personal Column

My secret file DAVID WALDER Somehow or other all that range of activities from espionage to its respectable but distant relation, diplomacy, manages to stay with us, both in......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator', 21 May 1870—In a dis- cussion on Vagrancy raised by Dr. Brewer, Mr. Goschen made an impressive as well as an amus- ing speech about the inmates of the......