5 AUGUST 1949, page 5

Risks In China

T HE gallant, resourceful and dramatic exploit of H.M. Sloop ' Amethyst' has won for her commander and crew, and for the Navy whose finest (and most stylish) traditions they......

Mr. Terence Rattigan, Who This Week Won, For The Second

tima in three years, the Ellen Terry award for the best play of the year, was speculating the other day about how film-producers would manage if custom decreed, as it does in......

The Controversy About Three-day Test Matches Not Being...

has cropped up again. The thing that puzzles me about these recurrent and inconclusive debates is that nobody ever suggests the obvious expedient of increasing, not the number......

Never Being Very Happy Under Remote Control Myself, I Could

not help feeling sorry for the Editor of the Daily Worker at the beginning of this week. On Monday, when banner headlines about the Amethyst' streamed across every other front......

A Spectator's Notebook

I SUPPOSE the biggest step which mankind could take towards alleviating the suffering caused by war would be a convention making the International Red Cross responsible for the......