2 DECEMBER 1955, page 7

When Mr. Peter Matthews, Of The Foreign Office News Depart-

ment, questioned about the outrageous speeches which Mr. Bulganin had been making in India, said that he 'seems to be thoroughly hypocritical,' he erred on the side of......

Christmas Holidays

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At Last A Leading Member Of The Labour Party Has

said it in public : that Mr. Gaitskell is likely to be the next Leader of the Party. And who made this confident prophecy? Why, none other than Mr. Harold Wilson, who resigned......

The Sunday Pictorial Is The Newspaper For The Young In

heart. Or so it is claimed on the front page every week. By its sensationalist approach, one might judge that its directors sometimes think of it rather as the newspaper for the......

During The Days He Spent With Edward Viii, Sir Samuel

Hoare became convinced that the King was determined to marry Mrs. Simpson. and, since he was a personal friend of the King, it is almost certain that his information weighed far......

A Spectator's Notebook

WE HAVE SEEN, in the past few weeks, how a legend was created about the influences supposed to have been brought to bear behind the scenes on Princess Margaret. A similar legend......

Cultural Intelligence

TELEVISION should be regarded not merely as a series of entertaining programmes but as a broad and balanced service designed to inform and enlighten as well as to entertain. ITA......