29 OCTOBER 1965, page 9

The Man Who Is France

By LORD GLADWYN T .„: President of France has publicly pro- claimed his mortality. Unlikely and unwel- come though the possibility may be, and is, my hook* may therefore be out......

Portrait

The Academic in Office By ALAN WATKINS `TN our new kind of civil service,' wrote Richard 1Crossman, 'the minister must normally be content with the role of public relations......