6 DECEMBER 1957, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

THE CHAIRMEN of the Women's Section of the Conservative con- stituency parties have their faith regularly strengthened and con- firmed by a four-page _leaflet called Madam......

Westminster Commentary

VV NILE the fourteenth Earl of Home was speaking your hawk-eyed correspondent was astonished to see that there were some 140 members present in the House of Lords. Aston- ished......

Even If The Bank Rate Tribunal Sittings Reveal Nothing Else,

I shall treasure one of their dis- closures : about the order of precedence in which public figures are called to Ile given notice of the Government's intentions on such......

The Centenary Of The Birth Of Joseph Conrad Has Come

and gone without too much fuss being made about it by anyone. An article in The Times by Dr. Leavis — Printing House Square seems a long way from Downing College—scattered......