27 FEBRUARY 1953, page 5

The House Of Commons Is Still Awaiting With Lively Interest

the answer to Mr. W. M. Vane's postponed question on the slightly deliberate journey (reputedly at two miles an hour, though I find that a little hard to credit) of a 30-ton......

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HERE seems likely to be a fairly lively discussion on the desirability of a certain element of non- professional representation on the proposed Press Council. The Royal......

When The Lord Chief Justice Declares, As He Did On

Monday, that " once the magistrate [Miss Sybil Campbell] had convicted this woman she was functus officio" more questions than those of law are raised. Gender. gender ! It has......

Should Every Cromwell Be Depicted With All His Warts ?

It is a nice question. Should you, for example, write of a politician, in whom, after all, intellect and character have more relevance than physical qualities: " a man so modest......

It Is Hard To Say Where The Present Political Generation

dates from, but it is safe to say that most of its members knew little of Francis Hirst, though his last book, a volume of reminiscences, was published as recently as 1948. But......

Half-defended Europe

T 0 say half-defended is in fact an exaggeration. The grave words used by the German Chancellor at Rome on Tuesday on " the tragic disparity " between the forces of east and......

But There Is One Even More Important Question Regarding A

Press Council. That is what precisely the scope of its activities is to be. It is all very well to say that it will consider only complaints from the persons affected. Is it to......