4 MARCH 1960, page 4

Base Over Apex

T HE news that the Germans were looking for bases in Spain should have caused rueful amusement; instead, the reaction here was hys- terical—where it was not sanctimonious. Yet......

First Crocus

rrtie Chancellor of the Exchequer, contemplat- ing his Budget, receives even more gratuitous advice than Princess Margaret contemplating matrimony; and among the earliest with......

Lust For Persecution

T HE editor of the Cambridge newspaper Varsity deserves to be congratulated; he has managed to extract a statement from the Chair' man of the Appointments Board about the report......

The Bbc And Yugoslavia Sonic Months Ago There Was A

protracted correspondence in our columns on the subject of the BBC's Yugoslav services. Some of the allegations made, and not answered, were disturbing; but as we heard that a......

Junking The Rubric

T in: current anti-Gaitskell line on the Left is (as Tom Baistow puts it in our correspon- dence columns) 'that by the time—perhaps un- comfortably nearer than we think—Russia......

The Inquisitors

'THE discourse on brainwashing given by Or .1 Alexander Kennedy, Professor of Psycholog i • cal Medicine at sEdinburgh University, to the Royal Institution has attracted less......