5 JUNE 1964, page 11

How To Pick The Winner The Combination Of Derby Week

and the D-Day commemoration reminds me of a sad venture of mine. Partly to fill in the time of waiting for the assault, 1 made a book at 50 Division Headquarters on the 1944......

On The Other Side Of The Hill

By GENERAL LEO FREIHERR GEYR VON SCHWEPPENBURG* N a peaceful room in St. Germain in the early I summer of 1944 I was sitting with the Chief of Staff of von Rundstedt's Western......

Little Did I Know . . .

One of my minor eccentricities used to be collecting anecdotes under the heading 'Little did I know . . .' Political memoirs are the most fruitful field for these exercises in......

Spectator's Notebook

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For 'freedom' Read `privacy'

By . HENRY FAIRLIE W E all know that, whether Sir Alec Douglas.. Home (Bless-His-Heart) or Mr. Harold Wilson (God-Rest-His-Soul) is returned in October, none of our obvious......

Tailpiece

I'm having trouble with my proprietor. I always knew I would sooner or later. And all because I said that I thought the principal candi- dates for extinction were the BBC,......

Lost Leader

I was fascinated by the reaction of The Tinier to the startling news that Stuart Hood is going over to commercial TV. This story made the front page of almost every newspaper,......

A Few Plain Words Over And Over Again We Read

that part of our defence against typhoid must be 'close atten- tion to personal hygiene.' Surely here, if ever, Ministers and newspapers should say exactly what they mean. They......