16 JULY 1965, page 6

South Africa

The Curtain ARNOLD BE1CHMAN writes from Johannesburg: The last remaining bastion of freedom in South Africa is a handful of English-language dailies. Of this perhaps half-dozen......

Who Pays?

I have never been in favour of closing pits merely because they are uneconomic.—Mr. William Paynter, general secretary of the National Union of Mine- workers, on the report of......

Political Commentary

The Troubles of Mr. Speaker By ALAN WATKINS A YOUNG Conservative MP recently put to me . n„the view that the summer recess was wrongly placed in the parliamentary calendar. It......