24 AUGUST 1956, page 4

First Light

T HE news from Cyprus is encouraging. Several days, perhaps weeks, must pass before it is possible to be sure that EOKA's cease-fire order has actually caused firing —and......

Trade Union Attitudes

T HE General Council of the Trades Union Congress may fairly consider itself unlucky. It has fallen a victim to that perennial nightmare of editors : its annual report has been......

A Wreath For Bert Brecht

By our German Correspondent Bonn IN East Berlin last Saturday Bert Brecht shared a funeral with the West German Communist Party. It was the Pankow Government's first chance for......