4 JANUARY 1957, page 19

It Is Not Only Clubs Which Have Been Affected By

Suez. The odd condition to which some MPs have been reduced was well illustrated by a letter to The Thneslast Saturday. 'It probably sounds bloodthirsty . . .,' wrote Mr. R.......

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The Great Rents That Have Recently Been Torn In The

Iron Curtain make the news from Russia more understandable. But I still find it inordinately tantalising. The Plenum of the Central Committee sat over Christmas. But as on......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE HONOURS LISTS have become as hazardous to their organisers as giving a party. Just as people who are not asked to parties are irritated more than those who are invited arc......

Their Project Of Schools Broadcasts In The Spring, Even...

they had appointed somebody to direct them. It is true that AR wanted to wipe the eye of the BBC, which is starting schools TV programmes in the autumn: but what harm in that?......

Portrait Of The Week

IN THE fortnight that has elapsed since our last review, the weather and a gratifying lull in the maelstrom of inter- national affairs have left plenty of time for an agonis-......

Ti1e Firs R Inkling I Had That The Atheneum Is

not altogether what it is thought to be was when, a few months ago, I was sown a letter to the editor of this paper, written on the club writing paper and signed `Twelve Members......

Compton Intelligence Tryfield Stretched Forward, Bent...

ball aloft in his right hand, claiming a catch. Compton seeing this walked out and it was when he was on his way that an appeal was made by the' ielding side. Daily Telegraph.......