5 APRIL 1957, page 8

The Observer Profile Of Sir John Harding Referred To The

Field-Marshal's 'blatant honesty.' My dic- tionary defines 'blatant' as 'offensively noisy,' ` clamorous,' loud,"loud-voiced,"brawling' and `obtrusive.' Hmm . . . * * *......

As An Admirer Of The Times I Am Concerned At

its tendency to hide from issues until it feels the coast is clear. There have been a number of ex- amples lately—the Shops Bill, for one; and one of the most glaring came last......

Bertrand Russell

DI ERTRAND RUSSELL, a man venerated by my generation of Americans, has lately been writing a good deal of nonsense about the United States. The tone has been unerringly hostile.......

It Is Something Of An Irony That The Death Of

Joyce Cary should have occurred in the same week that saw promise of a change in the out- moded laws governing obscenity in books. Both as a practising novelist and as a person......

Readers Who Have Missed 'city And Suburban' During Its...

absence in America will be glad to hear that life over there has not curbed his natural ebullience. Perhaps the writers of 'Talk of the Town' in the New Yorker will forgive me......

Var. Selwyn Lloyd, Defending The Suez Interven- Tion In The

House of Commons on Monday, said : • believe that the action which we took then has given an important impetus to the plans to make us less dependent in future on existing means......