23 OCTOBER 1953, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE current issue of Life contains an able article by Mr. Bruce Hutchison, a Canadian journalist, entitled " A Dangerous European Luxury: Hating America." Life comments......

Question Time

N 0 sooner had Parliament turned its back three months ago than the wild world was on its horse and gallop- ing off in all directions. Modesty must prevent members from showing......

The Triumvir It Is Now Over Four Months Since The

Praesidiuni of the Supreme Soviet announced, on July 10th, its decision that Beria should be dismissed from his exalted posts and that " the case on Beria's criminal activities......

Excelsiorski Undismayed By The Calamitous Outcome Of...

climb Everest last winter, the Russians (according to 'the Tribune de Geneve) are preparing another expedition for 1954. Once more the mountain will be attacked from the North,......

Culture Up North A Reader, Who Recalls That About Eighteen

months ago Hamlet was described by the management of the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield, as "The Play of the' Film," sends me the announcement of their current offering. It reads :......

The Anonymous Islands We Were Talking About Security...

the comedies to which they sometimes give rise. General Bob Laycock remembered the occasion during the last war when it seemed to the Chiefs of Staff possible that in certain......

Homework In The Lubyanka If You Are Tried In Public

for a crime against the Soviet State, you are not generally put in the dock—if you are a person of eminence, that is—until you can be relied upon to stick very closely, while......