2 JANUARY 1959, page 17

A Spectator's Notebook

MR. MICHAEL FOOT is one of the best liberal controversial- ists in England, but in the letter in our correspondence columns this week he seems to have misinterpreted Mr. But-......

Lord Mountbatten Is Widely—and Probably...

Many Tories find it hard to forgive him for his part in the transfer of power in India. So Mr. Duncan Sandys can be congratulated on ignoring prejudice, political......

The Hampstead Everyman Celebrated Its Twenty- Fifth...

Day. It opened in 1933 with what must have sounded the crazy idea of running itself 'on Film Society lines, reviving and presenting the best films, long or short; available from......

Leaning On Pinay

By DARSIE GILLIE Paris T HE General's doctrine has always been a tough one, a doctrine of sacrifice. This is the biggest difference between himself and the neo-Gaullists,......

I Am Surprised That Mr. Foot Thinks Mr. Butler's Bill

unjust. It seems to me no more unjust and a lot more sensible and honest than the present law. It is merely giving effect to the proposition that you cannot stamp out......

Mr. Foot Further Says That 'it Cannot Be Just That

a woman should go to prison for a crime which she can commit only with the connivance of a man who gets off scot-free.' Obviously prosti- tution could not exist without the......