17 JUNE 1966, page 9

Spectator's Notebook

THOSE who are opposed to Britain's military 1 involvement East of Suez—not to mention' the anti-Americans of the far left and the British supporters of Senator Fulbright—have......

Blackball

I apologise for the absence of any review this week of Britten's new work The Burn- ing Fiery Furnace. Unfortunately our music critic, Charles Reid, has been refused a press......

Out Of Commission

Mr. George Woodcock, I learn, is letting it be known that he might well resign from the Royal Commission on the Trades Unions, so dissatisfied is he with some of his colleagues......

South-east Asia

Thailand The Next Domino? By DICK WILSON I N a solemn ceremony this spring, His Holiness the Supreme Patriarch of the Siamese Buddhists blessed Bangkok's latest acquisition, a......

Tailpiece I Congratulate My Colleague John Egremom On...

a healthy majority in the House of I.ords for his proposal to introduce the television cameras into the upper house—a suggestion first mooted in these columns seven weeks ago.......

Roll Call It Is Excellent News That The Government Has

had second thoughts and seemingly decided to rescind its earlier decision to withdraw from ELDO. But how much better if this wrong- headed and damaging decision had never been......

Lg Commenting On The Honours List Is A Tedious Business,

and fortunately a dying convention. But I can't let this occasion go without saluting the knighthood given to Gordon tslevvton, the editor (for the past sixteen years) of the......