2 SEPTEMBER 1955, page 6

But Even Allowing For Its Treatment Of The Sale Of

work and for its invention of a royal barbecue, I do not think the press's silly season has been any sillier than Mr. Aneurin Bevan's. A fortnight ago Mr. Bevan was much......

A Cartoon In The New Yorker The Other Day Showed

a portable TV set being brought down to a crowded beach. 'Calm your- self,' one of the sunbathers tells her indignant husband : 'it was bound to happen.' It has happened. At the......

Political Commentary

By HENRY FAIRLIE S IX weeks ago, before he left for the Far East, I commented on the speed with which Mr. Lennox-Boyd had acted to avert a serious constitutional crisis in......

Rumania Is Reducing Her Armed Forces By 40,000 Men This

year. The reduction is roughly one quarter of the troops she main- tains in excess of those she is allowed under the peace treaty with the allies, but, of course, it is the......

A Spectator's Notebook

I AM INTERESTED in the news of the preparations for the Duke of Edinburgh's Study Conference on the Human Problems of Industrial Communities within the Commonwealth and Empire.......

Voltigeur Stakes Intelligence

'IF BREASLEY had been able to prevent Va Presto from bumping Acropolis . . .'—Daily Express. 'THE ONLY bumping that appeared to have occurred seemed to have been done by......