31 JULY 1953, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

A LTHOUGH theoretically there is such a thing as Total War, in which sll the citizens of all the belligerents are exposed to roughly equal dangers and sacrifices, you have only......

By-product .a Let-the-dog-see-the-rabbit Philosophy...

the vexed question of commercial" television and to most of the problems which beset the human race. Whether the bishops, and the vice-chancellors ot Universities, Who......

All Rounders The List Of Extraneous Duties Which A...

after study- ing the subject for three years, has now recommended that the police should be relieved of is long and varied. The supervision of sheep-dipping, the washing of......

Durance Vile The Train Was Not Full And It Was,

I suppose, fairly lucky for the lady that her predicament was discovered half an hour before we reached the terminus. She had gone to the toilet in a third-class carriage, the......

Yo Ho Ho !

What immortal longings, what deep cultural hunger, what upsurge of pride in our maritime tradition, what wild hope impelled one of my compatriots to paint in foot-high letters......

Success In Korea

T HE United Nations troops who threw their hats in the air at the news of the signing of the armistice in Korea had a clearer view of the situation than anybody else in the......