29 JUNE 1956, page 7

'political Cominentary,

By HENRY FAIRLIE HE Sunday Times - this week carried a leading article on 1 the middle-class protest. At the foot .appeared the weekly text, which appeared to have been chosen......

Recently I Was Shown A Publicity Hand-out For Moral...

reprinted from the Daily Herald of June 4. It was the usual 'wean of self-praise for Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman by Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman, full of such stories as how he brought......

A Friend Who Had Tea With Walter De La Mare

recently gives me the following account of the meeting : "Now which would be better?" he said. "To know that you were to be hanged at a certain point of your life when you were......

'continuing His Galloping Gander At Europe, Tireless...

returned to France and Gay Paree . . .'—not Randolph S. Churchill parodying Time, but Time itself (June 25). Whether Time is thus parodying itself or parodying Ran- dolph S.......

Lii Ii Substitution Of A Seven-day Rule For A Fourteen-day

rule may be the most that can he expected from the present Parlia- ment; when even Sir Winston allows his affection for parlia- mentary `rights' to get the better of him it is......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE Sunday Pictorial has the courage of its conviction that if stunts don't drop from heaven they can always be invented. Not in the least daunted by its previous fiasco when......