16 AUGUST 1957, page 5

Portrait Of The Week

WITH the fall of Nizwa and Firq the revolt in Oman seems to be over. Talib bin Ali, his brother, the Imam, and the Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar are hiding in the hills, while......

Westminster Commentary

THE leader-writers and the political commentators (the other political commentators, that is) spent last week what seemed to me an un- necessarily large amount of their space......

Cowes Intelligence

PRINCE PHILIP dines tonight at Cowes with the Imperial Poona Yacht Club. . . . Dr. Reginald Ben- . nett. MP for Gosport and Fareham, is its Com- modore. He- was one of its......