18 AUGUST 1967, page 2

Up The Up Staircase

In last week's SPECTATOR Sir Alec Douglas : . Home suggested that the Americans should eventually be prepared to hand over responsi- bility for ensuring the self-determination......

The Cost Of Muddling Through

The National Institute's latest quarterly review of the country's econoniy comes as a timely antidote to the euphoria generated by the improved July trade outturn—a single......

Portrait Of The Week

A stormy week in the East: in Vietnam Americ 4 an pilots bombed targets ten miles from the Chinese border, in Tibet the Panchen Lama languished in jail, and travellers reached......