25 OCTOBER 1957, page 7

The Story Sent In By The Middle East Correspon- Dent

of Le Monde and recounting the purloining of an American diplomatic bag as it was being taken across the Bosphorus in a boat is in the best tradition of the modern thriller. It......

Mr. Muggeridge's Prematurely Famous Article On The...

Saturday Evening Post turns ° tit to be a skilful and sophisticated piece of d e 6 Linking. Admittedly in the end he comes down on the side both of Monarchy as an institution......

I Suppose That The Time Of The Motor Show Is

an appropriate one for the Prime Minister and the Minister of Transport to pronounce on the subject of the roads, but their pride in spending a few more millions this year than......

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THERE IS no particular reason why the Sunday Dispatch should employ Mr. Muggeridge if it does not want to, but the ending of its arrangement with him is puzzling. It must have......

From An Advertisement In The Observer:

Richard Church THE GOLDEN SOVEREIGN A second volume which is better than the first . . . together with Over the Bridge, it com- promises, one of the best autobiographies of our......

Having Years Ago Enjoyed Leslie Howard In The Scarlet...

1 decided to watch it on Com- mercial Television on Saturday night. The film was interrupted five times by advertisements. None of the interruptions was for less than two......

A Spectator's Notebook It Is Now One Year Since The

Hun- garian revolt and its brutal suppres- sion by Russian tanks. No doubt history will find reasons to excuse the Soviet leaders for what they did —they were certainly the......

Westminster Commentary

Tapping the Leak SLOWLY, slowly, Cape St. Vincent to the north-west dies away; the strains of 'I do like to be beside the seaside' become ever fainter; the Labour Party sternly......