31 MAY 1957, page 7

I Suggested The Other Day That 'the Sacking Of Mr.

Alastair Forbes from the Sunday Dispatch was disquieting, his political column being almost its only readable feature. It is only fair to admit that the new editorial broom has......

A Spectator's Notebook

IN SEVERAL CASES lately the Courts in Cyprus have asserted their inde- pendence of the executive in the traditional manner—by refusing to convict. Although they have rejected......

The Exarch Stefan, Whose Death Has Just Been Reported From

Sofia, was the most imposing- looking dignitary I have ever seen—tall and broad, and made even taller by the snow-white hat of his office, with its cross of pearls, and broader......

The Execution Of Ronald Patrick Dunbar Has Been Fixed For

June 6. Dunbar killed an eighty- two-year-old woman after breaking into her house and stealing £90—a clear and brutal case of capital murder under the new Homicide Act. The......

Westminster Commentary

Now to begin with—though this will seem a trivial point to some of the faithful—he was right; it would. Nor need he imagine that he is the only one in the Opposition hierarchy......

Nothing That Mr. Duncan Sandys Has Been Say- Ing Or

doing about defence has brought home strategic developments so clearly as an item of the news on Monday morning. It was reported that Admiral Sir John Eccles,......