5 SEPTEMBER 1958, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

MERE ARE all sorts of apartheid. 'Baasskap' is at one end of the scale —crude, ugly, unapologetic. Then, in the lumpish middle, come a thousand excuses and equivocations......

The Controversy Over Whether Or Not Smoking Causes Lung...

has died down for a while, but members of the profession, I find, are still inclined to be touchy on the subject. Some doctors feel that the profession's honour is at stake:......

Tuc Commentary -i

D ELETE, we beseech Thee, 0 Lord, "Cannon, L.," and substitute "Blair, W." Amen.' This curious prayer, if the incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Bournemouth, is to be wholly......

I See There Is Speculation Already As To Whether The

Nationalist Party will split as a result of the com- petition for the premiership, and the fact that this was resolved in Dr. Verwoerd's favour. Or, per- haps, following some......