25 SEPTEMBER 1953, page 6

The Regimented Roadside If It Is Really Necessary For Every

bus stop on every country road to be marked by an eight-foot-high steel post painted in black and white stripes, need these erections be surmounted by the legend " Bus Stop " ?......

No Cause For Alarm It Was With Something Of The

trepidation of a maiden aunt who knows her favourite nephew is having his first encounter with a demi-mondaine that I tuned into the opening instalment of Journey Into Space,......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE va et vient of the past few days has almost reduced the Iron Curtain to the status of a bedroom door in a French farce. Hardly has it closed on Mrs. Maclean when a Korean......

The Moment Of Truth For Years And Years, Reading Interviews

in the popular Press, one has known that the people interviewed never uttered the precise words attributed to them. The visiting film-stars, the bereaved mothers, the bankrupt,......

Under Surveillance Instead I Began To Try To Work Out

the scale of the resources which the security authorities would need to deploy if they wanted seriously to impair anyone's chances (my own, for instance) of vanishing behind the......

Waiting For France

O NLY the more starry-eyed observers of 'the European scene have ever expected a quick solution to the prob- lems of West European co-operation, and in particular to the central......

A Funny Kind Of A Newspaper I Shall Not Easily

forget the face of the seventeen year old American schoolboy, eating his first breakfast in England and perusing for the first time in his life a copy of The Thnes. Why," he......

Taken For A Ride When You Build A New Town,

you have first to put up accom- modation for the builders to live in. A man I know, visiting the half-completed satellite community at A early one morning, saw the workmen who......