29 JULY 1955, page 7

Lord Hives Should Be An Admirable Chairman Of The National

Council of Diplomas in Technology. He himself entered Rolls- Royce at the age of 18, and has remained there ever since. He thus, in his own career, represents the 'practical......

Mr. R. A. Butler Is Clearly One Of The Most

valuable assets of the Conservative Party. But the nature of his position and his reputation within the party have always seemed strange to me. Before the war he became......

I Saw This Week On The Front Page Of N

national newspaper a bold, black paragraph containing the important news, from the British United Press Correspondent in Stockholm, that the entry on Mr. Malenkov in the new......

`the American Spectator (established 1942),' Snarls Its...

connection with any other publication bearing any part of this name.' He has obviOusly become aware of the existence of the Spectator of Bangalore. In the interests of peace I......

It Is Nothing New For Holy Writ To Be Commercialised,

but a more curious example than the following (an advertisement by the New York District Company in Movie Stars' Parade) I have never seen : "If ye have faith as a grain of......

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE p ARLIAMENT has risen for the summer recess. and the Chamber of the House of Commons is left, with its ghosts. to the parties of school children and curious New......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE URGENT DESIRE of press, radio, and television corre- spondents, abroad in their hundreds to find out what goes on at high-level conferences, coupled with the natural desire......