23 SEPTEMBER 1955, page 8

What Proportion Of Communists In A Body Makes It Reason-

able to suppose that they have practical control of it? There are so many people who have been associated with Com- munist and pro-Soviet activities on the 'Preparatory Com-......

Swedes Are Not Very Excitable People, But I Can Imagine

them in a mild ferment as October 1 approaches, for that is the day on which the present repressive liquor laws are to be replaced by others more tolerant. if this means a......

Tuppence And An Orange

BY RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL T HERE were two surprising aspects about last week's announcement that three national newspapers, the Daily Mirror, the News Chronicle and the Daily......

But It Is Only Fair To Admit That A Large

section of the press nurses a particular grudge against the Foreign Office which partly accounts for the malicious delight with which the inci- dent has been greeted. One of the......

Those Who Have Been Reminiscing Since Last Friday About...

Amery have, if they knew him well, paid their genu- inely humble tribute to the way in which he bore great sorrows with great dignity and lack of bitterness. It seems to me,......

A Spectator's Notebook

`WHY IS RANDALL such an obvious rotter? He's been at the Foreign Office.' Listening to the broadcast of Heartbreak House on Monday night, I was amused at Lady Utterword's......