31 MAY 1957, page 8

It Has Long Been A Complaint Of The Irish That

the rest of the world will not take them seriously; but when their authorities act as idiotically as they have done in the case of The Rose Tattoo prosecution, what can they......

This Is More Than Can Be Said Of Some Of

his RAF colleagues, to judge from their boasts after the latest Fighter Command air exercises. With sublime confidence, the Sunday Times air cor- respondent reported that......

Stainless Stanley

Lord Stanley of Alderley wishes to be known in future by the style of his senior barony, Lord Sheffield.—From the Court Circular, The Times, May 22. Trusty as steel, more......

My Note Last Week Welcoming Lord Home's Statement That It

was the Government's policy 'to try to get the right man in the right place' has brought from a correspondent the reminder of an earlier ministerial pronouncement on this......

The Seamy Side Of The Welfare State

By DR. DONALD McI. JOHNSON, , MP HAT is your patient's age, doctor?' queried the Emergency Bed Clerk. 'Sixty-two,' I lied cheerfully into the telephone receiver. It was the......

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,......