27 JULY 1956, page 7

Among All The Shaviana Thrown Up By This Centenary There

is one memoir which. I have no doubt, would give G. B. S. more pleasure than all the rest put together. It is the story of his meetings and correspondence with Dame Laurentia......

There Is An Air Of Purposelessness About The Frantic...

to be seen when any stone is turned over. The giddy manoeuvres of Communist leaders in the Soviet orbit, following the upset of the Stalin monolith, are proving no exception. It......

Political Commentary

BY CHARLES CURRAN T HE BMC strike is the first big strike of the Welfare State. It raises for the first time—though certainly not for the last—the question that will dominate......

A Spectator's Notebook

THERE HAS BEEN a certain amount of optimism in retentionist quarters lately that the Silverman Bill is doomed. I do not think it is justified. The basic political fact is that......

Not That They Reveal Him As A 'mystic.' This Is

what Mr. Colin Wilson, in the Sunday Times, asserts that Shaw was. Shaw also, says he, 'is a psychologist; not, like Freud, a super- ficial recorder of animal neuroses.' (Has......