1 OCTOBER 1954, page 6

Oscars Of The Air

When I heard the announcer say that the BBC had been awarded, in Florence, the ' Italia Prix' for 1954, I went on shaving, but began for some reason to think of Empress of......

Murder And Mercy

,In Nine Troubled Years, which Collins are publishing on Monday, Lord Templewood makes some interesting reflections on the Royal Prerogative. During his period of office as Home......

Britain Leads Europe

R. EDEN'S Lancaster House statement on Tuesday has given a tremendous new impetus towards the effective defence and unity of Europe. The step of committing a British armed force......

The Walking Wounded

A schoolgirl I know fell off a seesaw in Regent's Park the Saturday before last and hurt her arm. Next morning she was still in some pain, so her mother took her round to a big......

A Spectator's Notebook

M IKHATL BORODIN had an excellent sense of humour and may, in the wry, Russian way, have appreciated the irony of his fate (Mr. Harrison Salisbury, lately the Moscow......

Occupational Hazards

When the purge started in Hankow Borodin and his colleagues had to fly for their lives; they had a long, hard cross-country journey home by way of Outer Mongolia. In the middle......