25 MARCH 1955, page 8

• A Spectator's Notebook

ON THE BACK of Mr. Wendell Phillips's book, Qataban and Sheba (published by Gollancz at El Is.), there are warm words of commendation from Sir Ronald Storrs, Admiral Byrd and......

* - Whoever It Is Who Runs The Economics Side

of the Third Pro- gramme, in the last month has allowed iconoclastic attacks on two of the economists' most sacred of cows, thereby still further reducing the size of that once......

Last Friday The Ubiquitous Mrs. Legge And Others Visited The

town of Hatfield to take part in what was described as a Tory brains trust. The Evening Standard reported that 'people came out in hundreds' for this spectacle 'in, contrast to......

The Doctors' Dilemma

BY BRIAN INGLIS HE Government has appointed a committee 'to estimate. on a long-term basis, and with due regard to all relevant considerations, the number of medical......

I Enjoy The Consistency Of The Sunday Express, Which Extends

even to its fashion page. Last week Miss Anne Scott-James announced on her page that Mr. William Douglas Home, the playwright, was one of Britain's best-dressed men. Miss......

One Hundred Years Ago Tomorrow (march 26, 1855), The House

of Commons was debating a proposal to abolish the stamp duty on newspapers; and Sir Bulwer Lytton, who sup- ported the motion, reminded the Government of the fate of that duty's......

That Hard-working Body The Senate Internal Security Sub-...

unearthed yet another scandal about President Roosevelt. It has discovered that the President in 1942 advised that radio operators in merchant ships should not be dis- charged......