23 OCTOBER 1964, page 12

Slop-gap And Son They Are Not Only Old-fashioned : They

are old. Between them a hundred years older than Sir Alec's Cabinet. And some of them have been appointed with the strange reassurance from the Prime Minister (carefully......

The Boston Irish

From CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS BOSTON B RITAIN is a small mixed-in country. In general there is in Britain a similarity of trends and opinions between one part of the country and......

Birth Of Zambia I Am Sorry That The Emergence Of

Northern Rhodesia into independent Zambia should have been marred by the 'Chartered' incident, and I am sadder still not to be there for the celebrations. But like other crises......

Mr. Wilson Pays His Debts • We Had Heard So

much about the need for • a smaller Cabinet of dynamic men that Mr. Wilson's final selection of a Cabinet of twenty- three (no change) is a surprise. So, too, is the......

Russian Applecart

It's an ironic comment on Russian politics that the Guardian greeted the 'news of Mr. Khrush- chev's downfall with what had obviously been prepared as his obituary. Many reasons......

Spectator's Notebook

I HAD no joy of the result from Smethwick. This does not mean that I think Mr. Gordon Walker should be made into a hero. As Enoch Powell wro'e in the Sunday Telegraph: 'The new......