7 DECEMBER 1962, page 7

Going West I Have Played My Part, I Must Admit,

in jeering at the 'Come-to-Sunny-Britain' type of advertise- ment that portrays us abroad as simple seven- teenth-century folk who have the haggis piped in to dinner each......

The Indian Dilemma

From CHANCHAL SARKAR NEW P l i L C HINA'S powerful thrust through the Hi,, 1 . 3. layas, Eastern and Western, has left In u13 1 with a dire military problem, but her unria t Cf......

Political Initiatives

But, said the Minister, a political initiative of this sort would have little value unless accom- panied by brisk political effort at other levels. He complained, specifically,......

Extenuating Circumstances?

Last week I criticised the Observer for suggest- ing that the International Commission of Jurists, whose report on the lamentable state of Iaw in Dr. Castro's Cuba had just come......

Spectator's Notebook

H OW freely do ideas flow inside a Govern- ment? Once Ministers are appointed they often seem to become so compartmentalised that it is difficult to believe that many ideas ever......

Gentility

Anti-Semitism still exists in this country, and it is loathsome. The World Jewish Congress is now fully convinced there is an international movement, with influence as worrying......