A Spectator's Notebook
LAST TUESDAY'S LETTER in The Times from Lord Salisbury dealing with Cyprus seems to me an extraordin- ary performance. Quite apart from the mandarin language in which it was......
Ai-xi-mum The Reddest Face In Fleet Street On Tuesday Was
The Times's, I fancy that all the newspapers blushed—or if they did not, they °light to have. Here was a major political crisis, which had blown up in full view of the political......
In The Last War A Common Barrack-room Rumour Among Recruits
was that their NAAFI tea was doped to secure a placid switchover from civilian life. I am interested to see from the Ger- man Communist paper Leipziger Volkszeitung that this......
The Reaction Of The Labour Party To Mr. Thorneycroft's...
was as childish as we have come to expect. Mrs. Barbara Castle attributed it on television to Mr. Thorneycroft's desire to escape before the Bank Rate Tribunal report is......
All The Same I Would Have Thought More Of His
chances if I had not read this in the News Chronicle on Monday: Young electors will play a major part [in the Rochdale by-election]. Manchester Young Liberals will send 250......
The Evening Standard Last Week Printed An In- Teresting...
by Mr. Julian Symons about the Metro-Vick trial, which caused such a sensation at the time. It will be remembered that false confessions were extorted from a number of British......
'i Should Like To See John Betjeman Added To His
own casualty list,' a truculent correspondent in- formed the Spectator recently, but I wonder whether—now that 'City and Suburban' is to be with us no more—he will not come to......
W Estminster Commentary
`GOOD GOD,' said Mr. Birch, when he was told the news of Dr. Dalton's resignation, 'they've shot down to wait, the earth spun our fox.' The patient fox settled round three or......
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