Browsing Around A Railway Station Bookstall Last Week, A...
of mine noticed among the remaindered volumes an 'Anglo-American Dic- tionary.' Attached to it was a notice: In spite of its title this is a very good English dictionary.......
A Friend Just Back From Eastern Europe Tells Me—a Curious
sidelight on recent events behind the Iron Curtain—that feeling is very bitter, par- ticularly in Poland and Hungary, about the Czechs. Czechoslovakia has played a conspicu-......
A Spectator's Notebook
'Two LONG, lean Celtic faces loomed across the court. The first belonged to the accused, lonely and aloof in the dock; the second to the Attorney- General. . . .' The quotation......
Something Which The Times Did Publish This Week Was A
letter from Mr. Louw, the South African Minister of External Affairs. And very revealing it was. Mr. Louw complained that Mr. Gerald Gardiner had been sent as an observer to the......
A Correspondent, Agreeing With Me That Apposite-quotation...
a con- temporary pastime, offers the following from Karl Marx (I like to think of it turning up on one of those 'A Saying a Day' calendars, if they have such things, in Russia):......
It Is A Relief To Turn From Mr. Louw's Lengthy
and inaccurate protest to Four Words on South Africa, by Messrs. Huddleston, Collins, Raynes and Scott, and published by Christian Action at ls. Here is one extract from this......
On A Second Charge, That The Article 'was Likely To
be prejudicial to the maintenance of public order,' Mr. Foley was found guilty and sentenced to a fine of £50. The judge's argument here seems to me to be less happy—that the......
Many People Think That Since The Last Execution In This
country (August, 1955) there has been a considerable increase in the number of murders committed. This erroneous belief is largely due, I think, to the way in which murders have......
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