20 JANUARY 1956, page 6

On Their Release Two Of The Men Were Given £300

and one was given £400 as ex gratia payments. Even such a mythical figure as an admirer of the Home Office would not say that foresight was one of its more noticeable qualities.......

A Spectator's Notebook

IT HAS been widely pointed out that if the policeman had died the three innocent men who were convicted of assaulting him and were released last week would have been hanged.......

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T HERE are two ways of ensuring that one's views are not treated seriously. One is to suggest that the accep- tance of the American loan after the war was a......