3 MAY 1957, page 7

Exactly Two Hundred And Fifty Years After The Political...

of England and Scotland a report on Relations between Anglican and Presbyterian Churches (S.P.C.K., 3s. 6d.) has been published. Without denying the existence of considerable......

No Doubt The Home Office Will Try To Argue, As

it has done before, that Casement ought not thus to be put on trial a second time. But as Mr. Christopher Hollis has pointed out in the Observer, it is not Casement who is on......

In His Stimulating Book, Battle For The Mind, Dr. William

Sargant describes how 'false con- fessions are sometimes elicited quite unknowingly' and suggests that this is the explanation of Timothy Evans's confession at Notting Hill Gate......

Before Publishing Guy Burgess's Article We Re- Ceived A...

to send it for vetting by 'Security.' I would have thought it a safe assumption that any disclosures Burgess had to make would have been made six years ago to the Russians,......

Several Reasons Have Been Put Forward By The Home Office

to justify its refusal to permit an inquiry. The diaries, it has been argued, are not a fit subject for a public investigation. But nobody has suggested that the investigation......

Westminster Commentary

Now Mr. Fisher was, as far as is known, the only member to suffer such an indignity that evening. But he was by no means the only mem- ber to take part in that (for him, at......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE LAST TIME Guy Burgess's name appeared in this journal was at the end of last year when he wrote a letter to the Editor suggesting that the Spectator was a puppet of the......

The Home Office Also Has A Shabby Record In Con-

nection with the Casement Diaries. I cannot really feel that either. Alfred Noyes's The Accusing Ghost (Gollancz, 15s.) or the two articles by Mr. Mont- gomery Hyde in the......