26 AUGUST 1955, page 5

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE A HISTORY of England which does not mention Sir Winston Churchill—that was the first I knew of Biography of a Nation, which has been written by two Conservative......

Portrait Of The Week

T HE silly season, they call it, and it has been a week of tragedies. More than two thousand people are known to have lost their lives in the rioting in French North Africa. In......

Ira Intelligence

`At about 2.10 a.m. today a number of Irishmen with loaded weapons visited No. 5 Training Battalion, REME. . . Southern Command HQ. `The gang—it is thought to consist of eight......