26 JUNE 1964, page 17

A Political Trial

Sta,—During the Occupation of Germany, with a view to preventing the re-emergence of anything like the political 'people's courts' of Nazi days, special courts were prohibited;......

The Test That Never Was

By NEVILLE CARDUS A FEW summers ago, Groucho Marx was taken . to Lord's, during the course of a dull immobile county match. Through the windows of the Long Room he looked on,......

Two Histories

SIR,--Please allow me to correct the misleading impression likely to be given by your review of Christopher Brooke's Europe in the Central Middle Ages. This states that it......

Sir,—david Pryce-jones Has Got Me Wrong. I Said That The

National Theatre was like a lending library, not that it actually was one. • In other words, it performs the same kind of service to the drama that a library does to literature;......

A Task For Youth Sir,—in His Letter Which You Printed

in your issue of June 12, Mr. Anthony D. Steen makes out a good case for a very worthy cause, namely, the relief of loneliness and domestic help to a very large number of......

Moving St. Paul's

St. Paul's at Hammersmith, now preparing to establish itself at its. third London location in Barnes, takes the palm for adaptability. The school, founded by John Colet in 1509,......

Mary Somerville

SIR,—Material is being assembled for a biographical memoir of the late Mary Somerville (1897-1963), first Head of School Broadcasting and a Controller of Talks Division, BBC.......