6 JANUARY 1956, page 4

Off Balance

TT may be some time before Mr. Macmillan makes his first 'speech as Chancellor. But it is to be hoped that he is already thinking hard about it because it will be scrutinised......

Dr. Garbett

D R. CYRIL GARRETT, ninety-first Archbishop of York, who died on New Year's Eve, was a man whose industry, ;nagnanimity, mastery . ' of affairs and zest for living did not......

Malayan Intelligence

'THE thirty-three-year-old Secretary-General of the Malayan Communist Party, Chin Peng, . . . a slight young man with a limp . . The Observer, January 1, 1956 ‘. . . Chin Peng,......

Deadlock In France

IF , RENCH politics, unlike British, are always burdened by an opposition to the parliamentary system on both flanks, so that opposition to the government of the day does not......