26 JULY 1957, page 5

Imam And Sultan

From a Correspondent p OLITICS in Oman is a bewildering affair : com- pounded of tribal rivalries, religious differ- ences, and geographical peculiarities, complicated by......

The Strength Of The Stop-gap.

B y DARSIE GILLIE T obe a stop-gap government is not necessarily a weakness if nobody else can stop the gap. That is the lesson to be drawn from the vote by 280 to 183 last week......

Reviewers' Intelligence

OW MY PAPA! —Bristol Old Vic Company, Theatre Royal, Bristol. Among the various musicals of today this one has, not perhaps as a whole but certainly in its main idea, something......