26 MAY 1961, page 4

Brief Encounter

W HAT, then, may we hope from the Summit?' the Spectator asked a year ago. 'The grim but realistic answer is: very little.' And we got even less. The events of the last twelve......

Shift System

A FORETASTE of one kind of competition that can be expected from the Common Market was given last week in the story that skilled ship- yard workers are being recruited on......

Next Week Much Has Been Written In The Past Few

months about the likely economic reper- cussions of a British decision to join the Common Market; but relatively little attention has been paid to the political aspect—except by......

Confidence Returning

J UDGING by the rather scanty reports filtering out from behind the security screen at Evian, the atmosphere of the talks between the French Government and the FLN is as good as......

Labour And Europe

By ANTHONY HARTLEY A ST week's foreign affairs debate in the House of Commons was instructive: politics may be an exacting profession, but clarity and logic are evidently not......

If We Cared

But basic pay is only one of the causes of dis- content in the profession; differentials, as Charles Brand shows in his article this week, are becom- ing another. The craving......