28 JUNE 1957, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

'GREAT BRITAIN does not feel the loss of India because she gave India her independence of her own free will. But tomorrow she will feel the loss of Cyprus, because she will have......

The Excursion Of M. Aron Into Liberalism Is Not The

only symptom of unrest with noire beau pays that Figaro has had to face; I was amused to read their chronicler 'Nicole' this week on the subject of the youth of France, with its......

Reprinting Statements Which Had Been Shown To Be False. It

was this—and the fact that Gasquet always etred in favour of the Romanist position— which led Coulton to regard him as a liar. Pro- fessor Knowles thinks that no 'defence can be......

I Cannot Take The Labour Party's New Venture Into State

capitalism very seriously; it is too obviously an uneasy compromise, a piece of facing-both- ways mainly designed to help the party out of its own internal difficulties over......

Professor David Knowles's Creighton Lecture On Cardinal...

Historian (Athlone Press, 3s. 6d.) is, as one would expect, an authori- tative and distinguished piece of work. Gasquet very nearly became Archbishop of Westminster, and was at......

Westminster Commentar

DON'T know where Miss Elaine Burton went for the hols, but the sun was certainly shining there. In a sleeveless, low-cut blue dress with large white spots on, topped by one of......