24 JUNE 1966, page 11

Postscript On Moran

Churchill the Historian By J. H. PLUMB A a justification for his revelations of Shurchill's health, Lord Moran has appealed to history and historians. He claims that G. M.......

Spectator's Notebook

TVs odd that our recurrent bouts of national !introspection are so often prompted by sharp observations from across the Atlantic. On the whole I think the reaction to Dean......

Abortion When Mr David Steel Drew Third Place In The

ballot for private members' Bills he was mildly chided in these columns for hankering after some piece of local, Border Country legislation which would have kept him comfortably......

Thirty Years

The difference between the eighteen-year sen- 4Ence passed on one of the train robbers this 'members and the thirty-year sentences given to other of the gang in 1964, is surely......

For Logodaedalists

My favourite birthday present this year has been the new Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Ever an easy victim to the appeal of books of reference, I find this scholarly......

Dada Knew Best

A visit to the new Marcel Duchamp exhibition at the Tate is much to be recommended, for this unique assembly of his work makes a formid- able comment on the history of this......

Sink Or Swim 'the Minister Cannot Ride Oft So Easily

on a leak of this kind.' (Mr Anthony Barber in the House of Commons on Tuesday.) J. W. M. THOMPSON......