1 JANUARY 1954, Page 15

IS BRITAIN FINISHED'?

A new series of Spectator articles offers answers to the question —Has Britain come to the end of a period of world power ? Last week Professor D. W. Brogan opened the series with an examination of the standing of Britain in American eyes. Sir Keith Hancock now gives a Commonwealth view. Sir Keith, who is himself an Australian by birth, is Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British Commonwealth Affairs in the University of London.