6 NOVEMBER 1964, page 10

Timothy

Timothy Birdsall died, aged twenty-seven, in the summer of 1963. I never knew him. But I do know with what affection he is remembered bY the Spectator. And I admired very much......

Pray Silence For Concord

I am sad that two of my favourite writers, Anne Scott-James and Katharine Whitehorn, should plead for Concord's throat to be cut on the grounds that it is or will be hellishly......

Amnesty International

Last week I wrote that 'the Bulgarian Ambassador might like to prod his Government into giving Amnesty International some assistance in tracing the prisoners they seek to help.'......

Spectator's Notebook

ALBANY, in the Sunday Telegraph, has now an- nounced that he is Kenneth Rose, and adds that 'Quoodle of the Spectator leaves a careless trail of clues which makes me sus- pect......

Lib - Lab

Curiouser and curiouser becomes the strange affair of Mr./Lord Gwynne-Jones, the Minister of Disarmament. So he was, after all, one of the Liberal Party's defence advisers! And......

Make Way For Youth

One of the (few) advantages of being a poli- tician is that you go on being a promising young man until you can begin to draw the retirement pension. Much the same seems to......

Tailpiece

'You can't possibly wear those socks today.' 'Why not?' 'Because you've got your feet on the table again.' Even if it's the wrong side of the table, its a comforting thought.......

The New Cities To Put Together A Winning Combina- Tion

of discontented farmers and city workers. The East was always leery of him, of his raw- ness and his phrases without meaning. Goldwater, of course, has many of Bryan's......