2 APRIL 1954, page 7

Post-mortems On Aintree

There is only one way to eliminate the risk of horses (or their riders) being killed in the Grand National, and that is to abolish the race. If you shorten the course, the event......

Toning It Down

The other -day a Roman Catholic Bishop, in a " Lift Up Your Hearts " broadcast, suggested that there was religious intolerance in Northern Ireland; the Prime Minister of......

, Those Who Pursue Fame Must Have Been Saddened By

the l atest Mass Observation experiment, in which 1,000 men and Women were invited to say what they knew about Sir Edmund nillary, Dr. - Kinsey, Senator McCarthy, Mr. Gordon......

A Spectator 's Notebook

OSTAGES, who have not played much part in recent wars, may have some importance if there is another one. At the very beginning they would not be hostages the technical sense;......

The British, For Some Reason, Are Rather Good At Ruses

de guerre, and in the last war the ultimate success of Allied .ttrategy owed a surprising amount to the various tricks which r i , er e practised upon the enemy. The story of......

Doves Or Rats ?

S INCE 1947, exports to Communist countries from NATO countries, Western Germany and Japan, have been subject to detailed controls. In 1950, the United States followed this up......