24 APRIL 1953, page 5

The Reveller Like Most Boys Of Fourteen He Is Neither

a keen nor an accomplished dancer, and when at midnight we walked down the broad steps in front of which George I's horse caracoled demurely in the moonlight I could not resist......

An Ill-gotten Guinea Candidates Seeking Entry To The...

of the Civil Service are obliged to do, among other examination papers, one on English. I know this, because the last paper of this kind was based on a thousand-word extract......

The Rustle Of Spring The Hungarian Government Has...

lupin seeds can be used as a substitute for eggs in pastry; Mr. Ken Tynan is being sued for libel by Mr. Donald Wolfit; and at two o'clock last Tuesday afternoon, in an open......

Thruster Rommel's Gifts As A Commander Were Those Of A

hunter rather than a chess-player. In action he was always. so to speak, well up with hounds, and in his diaries he displays for his own troops a brusque, unsentimental......

All Aboard In The Course Of A Year I Spend

quite a lot of time climbing, or watching others climb, in and out of military vehicles, and I often wonder why their designers are at such pains to make this feat as difficult......

Put Out Fewer Flags To Be Obliged To Commit Suicide

by Herr Hitler, to be impersonated upon the films by Mr. James Mason, and to have one's personal papers edited by Captain Liddell Hart—these are all contingencies which, in a......

A Spectator's Notebook T He Plucky Attempts By The...

to prevent General Franco's subjects from hearing any- thing at all about the Coronation are said to be based partly on the fear that news of this event might stimulate......

The Dulles-bevan Axis

p RESIDENT EISENHOWER'S great speech of April 16th' expressed so exactly a truly enlightened attitude to the new situation created by the death of Stalin and by the decision of......