5 JUNE 1959, page 7

When The Government Was Putting Through The Tv Act It

made special provision for documentary 'shoppers' guides' to be included as programmes, rather than as advertising. The reasoning was that the producer of a shoppers' guide......

I Can Recommend The Pamphlet Smoking, By Sir Ronald Fisher

(published by Oliver and Boyd at 2s. 6d.), to anybody who believes—I come across a surprising number of people who do- 7 -that cigarettes have been found guilty of murder by......

Academic Freedom Of Though] And Expression In The...

also under attack. The Salisbury City Council has withheld a grant of £1,200 promised to the University College of Rho- desia and Nyasaland, and the Nyasaland Tobacco......

I Am Often Irritated To See How People Abroad, Even

such hard-headed statesmen as Dr. Aden- auer, continue to regard The Times as influential simply becauSe of its range of official contacts. The Times, admittedly, has long......

Lee Kuan Yew, Whose Threats Have Sent The Straits Times

across the Causeway to safety in Malaya, can learn from Sir Roy Welensky. 'For two years the main press irritant in Rhodesia and Nyasa- land to the Federal Prime Minister has......

A Spectator's Notebook

MONDAY'S Times article on Selwyn Lloyd made interest- ing reading. If the political correspondent of a popular newspaper were to say, `Mr. Macmillan has let Mr. Lloyd know that......