26 FEBRUARY 1954, page 7

How To Deal With China

The Southern.Railway, when it existed as such, had a reputa- tion for being rather backward and old-fashioned. It is mildly ironic that today it should be so closely identified......

One Thinks Of Rafters As Old Things, But The One

in which the men found a .303 bullet embedded was not old. It formed part of a porch which had been added on to a cottage when an extra room was built on soon after the First......

'a Spectator's Notebook

I . N at least twelve out of the sixteen Republics of the USSR the Soviet Communist party has been holding, with ,, an air of expedition if not of urgency, its annual co......

The Interventionists

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Blocking The South

T HE line through the middle of Europe which has been confirmed by the Berlin failure to unite the two parts of Germany is a line across which there is to be no retreat, but......

Th E Blue Riband Of Fleet Street „i Learn With Rapture

that there exist in the world of i f u_urnalisin two well-tested and widely recognised " readability ,-'11nulas,', the product of many years of research. The Fleisch......

A Although I Shudder To Think What Would Happen If

Gunning Fleisch were turned loose on A Spectator's Notebook, it is ear_. _ since the papers which they find most readable are in fa ct read by most people—that a keen journalist......