25 APRIL 1969, page 36

Jenkinsky

AFTERTHOUGHT TIBOR SZAMUELY Our Government maintains it is socialist. 'The Labour party is a Socialist party or it is nothing,' as Ramsay MacDonald used to say (or perhaps it......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator,' 24 April 1869—Herr Twesten, on April 16, brought forward a motion in the North- German Parliament in favour of replacing the Chancellor, who, as......

No. 550: Potpourri

COMPETITION A reviewer in last week's Times Literary Sup- plement complained that over the past six months one fifth of the novels he had reviewed had been - concerned with some......

No. 548: The Winners Trevor Grove Reports: As From Sunday

13 April all Greek newspapers were ordered to devote one page of their weekend editions to the re" printing, over the next two and a half years, of a selection of modern Greek......