6 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 7

Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick Must Have Made Himself Unpopular...

former colleagues by saying that 'staffs in all departments, including the Foreign Office, . . . should be gradually but ruthlessly cut.' To disagree with such an expert as Sir......

The Trust's First Task, Of Course, Will Be To Find

a successor worthy to restore the great Owen Seaman tradition. I was surprised to hear that Mr. Randolph Churchill had already been un- of ficially sounded; apparently it was......

'why Are We Told All These Lies?' Demanded The...

of Associated Press at one juncture; 'I repeat, lies!' To which the Daily Express reporter added: 'Give us the facts or send your fifty thousand information officers home to......

Tuc Commentary

To Hell or Blackpool 'MIND your backs, please, mind your backs.' In a pet already (the handle of my suitcase had just fallen off), I determined not to mind my back at so......

A Spectator's Notebook

AMONG THE SUBJECTS on the agenda for the next Cabinet meeting, I am interested to hear, is the future of Punch. Some Ministers feel, under- standably, that Punch after Mug-......

The Latest Example Of The Workings Of 'security,'...

the News Chronicle, is typical. A fortnight ago the Chronicle wanted to print a picture of the three steel towers which have been going up this summer alongside the Great North......

See That Some Commentators On The Moscow Purge Still...

that the dispatch of Molotov to Mongolia is an improvement on Stalin's methods of dealing with opponents. But Stalin appointed Kamenev as an Ambassador—to Rome, at that—only to......