31 DECEMBER 1954, page 4

Political Commentary

BEFORE 1955 ends the Conservative Government will probably have appealed to the country and the events of the year which has now ended indicate what the pattern of the general......

A Political Commodity

Recent events suggest that the Conservatives may yet live to regret the day when tea was included among the food- stuffs to be subsidised and rationed, so that its ' essential '......

Down You Go

The case of Vlado Dedijer shows that Yugoslavia continues to preserve a nice balance between eastern and western political methods. It is best not to contemplate what would have......

Kafkaland

The man who appeals against the verdict of a court, only to find that the court of appeal is presided over by the judges who sentenced him in the first place, might be forgiven......

The Grave-diggers

M ONSIEUR MENDES-FRANCE has scraped through up to the time of writing, but his majorities on the two votes of confidence so far taken, though enough to avert defeat, cannot undo......

Strikes Ahead

No doubt the executive of the National Union of Railway- men imagines that it is impressing the rank and file by refusing to call off the threatened strike pending the court of......